LightSavers:Accelerating Low Carbon Lighting
Philip Jessup, Executive DirectorToronto Atmospheric Fund
Thanks: City of Ann Arbor
ENERGY STAR® Participants MeetingJune 4-5, 2008
Toronto Atmospheric Fund
TAF is a community based incubation and solutionsprovider that facilitates CO2 emission reductions
LightSavers—New Paradigm for Lighting
A market transformation consortium to pilot test and showcase LED and adaptive control
lighting solutions
LightSavers Objectives
•To accelerate use of LED and intelligent lighting controls that achieve 50% CO2 emissions reductions in outrdoor applications
•To create a market transformation consortium in the Greater Toronto Area that partners with suppliers and designers to pilot test and verify performance of new technologies
•To raise public and municipal awareness of advanced lighting solutions
LightSavers Objectives
•To accelerate use of LED and intelligent lighting controls that achieve 50% CO2 emissions reductions in outdoor applications
•To create a market transformation consortium in the Greater Toronto Area that partners with suppliers and designers to pilot test and verify performance of new technologies
•To raise public and municipal awareness of advanced lighting solutions
LightSavers—Market Transformation• 5As framework for LightSavers:
Availability Awareness Accessibility Affordability Acceptance
• NRCan is supporting Awareness & Acceptance streams:
Product display event GTA-wide workshop Communications Protocol development
Other funders and partners include Ontario Power Authority, TAF, The Clean Air Partnership, & greenTbiz
LEDs—Light Emitting Diode Lights• LEDs are superior to high
intensity discharge (HID) lamps:
better color rendering last 2-to-3 times longer easily dimmed lower maintenance 20 - 30% more efficient
• Tianjin, China pilot is pilot testing 3,000 street lamps using Cree’s 100 lumen/watt LED chips
• Key issues hard to verify claims high cost vs.
conventional availability in Canada
Thanks: Remco
Thanks: City of Oakland and PG&E
Photopic versus Scotopic Vision
Adaptive Lighting Controls• Adaptive controls adjust
illumination levels according to: fixed time schedules available natural light occupancy personal use specific workplace tasks variable load shedding
GTA company, Encelium, is a leader—75% energy reduction at Toronto General
Significant potential for reducing outdoor lighting illumination
Key issues: cost and fear of liability
Thanks: Encelium
Lightsaver Application Areas
• Parking areas and garages, e.g. municipal parking garages, parking decks, etc.
• Roadways and tunnels, e.g. campuses, off street areas, accessory decorative lighting on shopping streets, roads under bridges
• Pedestrian pathways in urban village areas, parks, e.g. campuses
• Architectural illumination, e.g wall packs for security applications
Thanks: Relume
LightSaver Consortium—Supplier Criteria
• Product provides adequate light for application
• Minimum of 2-year warranty
• Product is certified CUL/CSA
• Availability of data on junction temperatures, lumen maintenance, photometric properties, etc.
• Willingness to discount product
Thanks: Hadco
LightSaver Consortium—Pilot Projects
• Demonstrate LEDs in archetypical applications compared with different base case lamps, e.g. fluorescent, HPS, and metal halide
• Demonstrate synergies between LED lighting and adaptive controls, e.g. dimming, motion
• Commitment of funding to pay for pilot retrofit (unless we can raise provincial funds)
• Commitment of staff time to work with Lightsaver team
Thanks: Relume
LightSaver Consortium—Measuring What?
• Photometric performance, e.g. lumens that fall on a surface
• Photopic, scotopic and mesotopic plots
• Energy and operating cost savings leading to business case
• Environmental benefits, e.g. emission reductions
• Public acceptability
• LEDiscovey 2-day event held in Toronto, March 25-26
Hosted by greenTbiz 23 manufacturers &
suppliers 200 potential buyers “Speed dating”
• Private second day devoted to establishment of consortium:
GTA municiplities Universities Healthcare providers Social housing
First consortium workshop will be held in October, 2008 and will review first stage of protocol drafts
LightSavers—Initial Event
Toronto Atmospheric Fund
www.toronto.ca/taf