the ppa also commissioned kema international in to undertake a study to quantify the power system energy losses in southern pacific utilities which included all the commonwealth pacific small states except vanuatu ppa and kema following on from the recently completed pacific appliance labelling and standards programme which aimed to increase the importation and sale of more energy efficient appliances the pacific efficient lighting strategy pels is being implemented to assist in the pacific s transition to high efficiency and environmentally sound lighting by the projected electricity savings are over gigawatt hours with associated fuel import savings of about million litres and emission savings of metric ton equivalent carbon dioxide