U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Releases Commercial Lighting Solutions at LightFair 2009 in New York – Heavy Focus on High Performance Daylighting
On May 5, 2009, The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today introduced Commercial Lighting Solutions, its latest innovation designed to improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings with a major focus on retail energy initiatives as well as Daylighting. The interactive Web tool is designed to help commercial building owners improve lighting efficiency by at least 30% over ASHRAE 90.1-2004 and begins to bring focus to the major changes that ASHRAE 90.1-2007 adds especially when it comes to daylighting of buildings with controls. This tool produced by the DOE provides great insight into the benefit that daylighting can provide to the building owner. With a small amount of information, a building owner or developer can discover daylighting techniques that can reduce electric energy consumption by more than 50% just by utilizing daylighting and controls. Commercial Lighting Solutions was introduced at LIGHTFAIR International, the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference, held in New York on May 5 – 7, 2009. The Daylighting Pavilion at LightFair demonstrated the latest in technologies available in high performance daylighting solutions and daylighting controls.
Commercial Lighting Solutions was developed by DOE in partnership with lighting designers, architects, and commercial end-users, the tool provides energy savings projections based on user input and selections. The solutions are designed to meet or exceed energy savings levels needed to qualify for tax incentives established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Commercial users and designers can also use the Web tool to document performance against energy goals which can support end-user applications for incentives and rebates from utilities and state or regional energy efficiency programs.
To explore the Commercial Lighting Solutions interactive web tool, please click here.
