Lighting Controls: Savings, Solutions, Payback and Vendor Profiles
Cleantech Approach’s independent research employs a unique mix of technology and financial analysis oriented toward identifying market-ready, sustainable technologies and strategies. In this report, we take a detailed look at another technology that offers a tremendous energy saving opportunity for commercial offices, lighting controls. In order to help municipalities, large property owners, and businesses better understand this opportunity, we offer a detailed review of the industry players, the technologies employed, and the potential electricity savings and financial payback resulting from investment in lighting control solutions. To help our readers better understand the range of solutions and providers, we have included detailed profiles of key lighting control solutions vendors and their respective brands: Acuity Brands (Synergy, SensorSwitch, Lighting Control & Design), Adura Technologies, Cooper Controls, Delmatic, Encelium, EnOcean, Leviton Manufacturing, Lumenergi, Lutron, Philips (Dynalite, Lightolier Controls), Schneider Electric, Universal Lighting Technologies, and WattStopper.
Download the Cleantech Approach Lighting Controls Report
- Lighting Controls Report: Executive Summary ONLY. No registration required. 12 pages, 1.6 MB PDF.
- Download the Complete, Updated Lighting Controls Report. Registration required (form to the right). 60 pages, 7.0 MB PDF.
LED Lighting: Benchmarking Report
Cleantech Approach’s research provides municipal and global development organizations with the market analysis they require to devise viable sustainable technology-enabled strategies. In this report, we take a detailed look at a market that offers cities a tremendous energy saving opportunity, solid state lighting (SSL), with a focus on LEDs (light emitting diodes). Through our rigorous benchmarking analysis of SSL solutions versus their conventional lighting counterparts (incandescent, halogen, CFL, linear fluorescent, and metal halide) across three different end-markets (residential, commercial office, and retail), we have determined the markets in which SSL solutions outperform, their relative costs of operation, and their payback periods.
Download the Cleantech Approach LED Lighting Benchmarking Report
- LED Lighting Report: Executive Summary ONLY. No registration required. 5 pages, 2.0 MB PDF.
- Download the Complete SSL Benchmarking Report. Registration required (form to the right). 15 pages, 7.0 MB PDF.
Future Research Publications
Be sure to check out CTA’s next soon-to-be-released reports:
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LED Benchmarking using the Department of Energy’s CALiPER Performance Data
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Total Building Energy Management Systems
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Distributed Electricity Generation in the Urban Environment
CTA’s Suggested Online Resources for SSL Industry Information & News
Suggested Weblinks for SSL Industry Information
- The DoE’s CALiPER Program. For regular, comprehensive and unbiased performance reports on SSL solutions.
- The DoE’s SSL technology primers.
- The Energy Information Administration’s Forecasts & Analyses. This site offers detailed information related to US and international electricity consumption.
- The DoE’s Buildings Energy Databook. This provides statistics on residential and commercial building energy consumption. Data tables contain statistics related to construction, building technologies, energy consumption, and building characteristics.
- ENERGY STAR ratings for LEDs.
- Empire State Building’s Sustainability Retrofit Program. This well-organized site profiles the processes and technologies employed as part of a replicable model for retrofitting pre-war buildings in a cost-effective way.
- General sustainability and LED lighting news websites/RSS/Twitter feeds: Greentech Media, Cleantech Group, Terrapass, Cleantechnica, Green Energy Brt, SVCleantech, LED Inside, and The New Light.