The Power of Lighting Controls for Energy Savings Top 5
Lighting controls, like any control system has the power to realize a significant amount of savings because you can control specific times when the lights can and cannot be used. Lighting systems in buildings are typically designed to provide to much light for today’s needs, they usually do not take into account the use of natural daylight, and they are left on when no one is using them. Lighting controls can address all of these wasteful issues and with reliable paybacks of less than 2 years in many cases.
The top 5 use of lighting controls are:
- Scheduling automatically turns lights off or to dimmed levels based on the time of day.
- Occupancy sensors turn the lights off when a room or space is vacant.
- Daylight harvesting dims or shuts off lights when enough daylight is present to satisfy light levels.
- Demand response/load shedding reduces light loads at peak electricity price times.
- Personal light controls allows users to dim lights their preferred levels.
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