CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Ultra-Low Carbon Solar Criteria
August 11, 2021
Technical Committee launching for Ultra-Low Carbon Solar criteria for EPEAT ecolabel– now is your opportunity to get involved!
The Global Electronics Council (GEC) is developing criteria for its EPEAT ecolabel to calculate and identify
low embodied carbon solar panels. This Call for Participation is to notify stakeholders of the opportunity
to participate on the multi-stakeholder Technical Committee that will evaluate and reach consensus on
these leadership criteria. GEC is partnering with Anthesis, an organization with extensive expertise inlife cycle analysis, to convene and manage the Technical Committee.
The State of Sustainability Report on Ultra Low Carbon Solar provides the scientific-basis andbackground documentation for criteria development.
Stakeholder Participation in the Technical Committee
The Technical Committee is the consensus body in the GEC criteria development process. The TechnicalCommittee is responsible for ensuring that proposed criteria address priority impacts and issues
identified in the State of Sustainability Research and will move the industry and its supply chain toinnovate and adopt best practices that achieve credible, verifiable reductions in embodied carbon andincrease transparency. This Technical Committee is expected to begin its work in October 2021 andcontinue for up to 4 months. Technical Committee meetings will occur monthly via teleconference.
Members are expected to review documents in advance of meetings, provide comments on criteria andactively engage in discussion (either on calls or by electronic means), and participate in the ballot
process to approve criteria and reconcile stakeholder differences.
Membership on the Technical Committee is open to all interested parties by submitting the TechnicalCommittee Application Form. The Technical Committee will include up to 25 voting members,
representing a balance of stakeholders from four categories:•••

Manufacturer: Manufacturers of solar panels and their trade associations.
Other Industry: Other businesses commercially engaged with solar panels such as:− Suppliers and their trade associations.
− Recyclers, repair and refurbish companies, asset management service providers, andtheir trade associations.
− Other types of businesses commercially engaged with the product.
Sustainability Advocates and Government Policy: Individuals from a public agency (local,regional, state, federal, or international) or represents a professional public/environmental
health/safety organization, academia, or not-for-profit environmental organization.

•Purchasers and Ecolabel Criteria Users: An individual whose organization purchases, uses, orspecifies solar panels. Users/consumers and their trade association representatives, institutionalpurchasers, third-party conformity assessment bodies (e.g., testing laboratories), and retailers
are included in this membership classification.

Technical Committee member applications will be reviewed and members selected by Anthesis using
the following considerations:• technical competency and qualifications of the applicant relevant to the criteria;• balance of stakeholder interests;• geographic and product representation;• date of receipt of application
If you are interested in applying to participate on the Technical Committee, please complete theTechnical Committee Application Form, and return by September 11 2021 to Skye Lei, Anthesis
Skye.Lei@anthesisgroup.com.
Questions? Please contact Jim Fava (jim.fava@anthesisgroup.com) with any questions regarding theTechnical Committee application process. Please contact Patricia Dillon at the Global Electronics Council(pdillon@globalelectronicscouncil.org) about the overall GEC criteria development process andapplication in EPEAT. Additional information on the GEC criteria development process is publicly
available.