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

416-392-0253philip@jessup.ca

bamarans@tafund.org