The Climate Group
No Need to Wait:
Accelerating Adoption of LED street lighting
National League of Cities: Austin, TX.
20th November, 2014
Solution Session: LED Street Lighting
Dr Ben Ferrari, Director, The Climate Group
— Introduction to The Climate Group
— LED consultation 2014
Dr Peter Curley, Technologist, The Climate Group
— Global LED Consultation findings – localised issues and shared learning opportunities
— Framing LED street lighting options for cities  Flexibility towards ‘Smart city’ concepts
— What adoption barriers are you facing ?
Niels Van Duinen, Philips Professional Lighting Solutions
— Challenges to move forward – Transfer of Risk
— New Business Models – ‘Lighting as a service’
The Climate Group – Who we are
Our goal is a prosperous, low carbon future.
We believe this will be achieved through a ‘clean revolution’:
the rapid scale-up of low carbon energy and technology.
The Climate Group – Who we are
We work with leaders from governments and
corporates in three ways:
•
We convene key decision makers to inspire
leadership and innovation;
• We provide evidence of low carbon success that
enables ambitious action;
• We develop practical projects to scale up and
replicate transformational low carbon solutions.
International NGO - we operate offices in USA,
Europe, China, Hong Kong and India.
States & Regions Alliance Members
Energy Efficient Lighting: Motivation is clear
Why focus on LED Street Lighting ?
LED Benefits
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More energy efficient lighting
Efficient delivery light  reduced light pollution
Longer operational lifetimes  less maintenance
Improved lighting quality / colour / colour temperature
Flexibility in lighting – dimming, smart controls
Enhancement of Cities
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Modernised city environment  ‘smart city’ concepts
Enhanced living experience and well-being
Socio economic benefits – regeneration / business development
Road safety  and perceived safety at night
Energy efficient LED solutions ready to go...
Energy Efficient Lighting: A typical LED Luminaire
LED
Package
Final LED luminaire
Ref: Dubai Workshop - Abdo Rouhana – May 2014
LED Trials - Lightsavers and City Reports
The Climate Group / ‘Lightsavers’ Trials:
12 Major Cities
15 Trials
27 Products
500+ Lights
Individual City – LED Trial Reports
Lightsavers
Lightsavers
Summary Report
Technical Report
Technology mature, energy savings confirmed…..no need to wait.
Cities LED scale-up: We are seeking to accelerate adoption.
Many cities yet to make the LED transition. What local barriers remain ?
Global Consultation: Local Events
Key consultation dates:
Consultation Materials
Jan 2014
Jan  ongoing
April 28th
May 29th
Wk2. Sep
Sep 22nd
Launch - WEF, Davos
Consultation Outreach
London Roundtable
Dubai Roundtable
Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro
Climate Week NYC 2014
Nov 20th
USA - Austin TX
Nov 25th
Dec 11th
Early 2015
Singapore and Malaysia
Beijing
India
LED Adoption Barriers - USA
A survey of 300 mayors released this week shows
that switching to LEDs is a high priority (82%),
second only to public building retrofits.
LEDs and other energy-efficient lighting are
the "most promising technologies" for reducing
energy use and carbon emissions, they say.
The most significant barriers are
budget constraints (84%) and upfront costs (71%).
So is finance always the critical barrier …..?
Jan 2014
http://usmayors.org/pressreleases/uploads/2014/0122-report-energyefficiency.pdf
A Fundamental Barrier: Stakeholder Alignment
The best technology will stay on the shelf if
key stakeholders do not benefit.
The business case for LEDs involves longer operating time, reduced management,
servicing, maintenance and replacement costs, and significant energy savings.
BUT:—Utilities / asset owners and energy providers may see less revenue.
—Utilities may have spare generating capacity at night  ideal for street lighting
—City lighting managers may have to downsize their lighting crews.
Revenue Regulation and ‘decoupling’ policies
—Decoupling rates from sales
—Challenges of upgrading  transfer of ownership, new rate settings
—Driving supporting policy change – more is needed: ‘local champions’ still needed
—Cities consider exploring taking ownership back from the utilities
Consultation: Framing LED Options for Cities
We recognise cities have unique history, lighting infrastructure, service
agreements etc.
Cities face a key decision; what is the appropriate LED upgrade approach ?
Scale: Small / fast
Scale: Large / long term
— New options for street lights – eg. dimming, part lighting, smart trigger sensors ?
— Identifying best business cases and suitable finance options
— Procurement  LED Quality Thresholds  helping the decision process
— Evidence to address remaining public perception issues of LEDs and dispelling myths
— Assessing the additional socio economic benefits most relevant to them.
Consultation: Framing LED Options for Cities
Energy Savings
Core Energy Savings
CMS  future proofing
Consultation: Framing LED Options for Cities
Pre-Programmed ‘Intelligent’ luminaires
—Light control and dimming can be pre-programmed in an ‘intelligent’ luminaire.
—Many cities trialling dimming, during the early hours of the night eg. 2am-5am.
—Some cities are simply turning street lights off !
Luminaires with ‘smart’ sensors – detect motion and turn ON the LEDs
—‘Off’ or dimmed most of the time. Not suitable for all locations.
—Suitable for parks, walkways used infrequently at night. Extreme savings are possible (!)
—Adaptive lighting in areas rather than individual poles. Eg. Lighting adapts to traffic
volume.
Centralised Management System (CMS)
—Full flexibility, rescheduling, dimming / trimming, performance monitoring, maintenance
—Future proof solution  smart city links
LEDs can be adopted now with a CMS, or with options to
allow future upgrade to link to a CMS
Centralised Management and Future Proofing
Cities can exploit LEDs to achieve
significant energy savings now.
Planning LEDs + CMS together
Helps future proof for links to:
- Developing ‘Internet of Things’
- Evolving ‘Smart’ City concepts
PEDESTRIAN
MONITORING
TRAFFIC
FLOW
MONITORING
CCTV
SECURITY
MONITORING
EVENT
RESPONSE
EMERGENCIES
WEATHER
SENSORS
POLLUTION
MONITORING
RADIATION
MONITORING
OTHER Eg.
GUNSHOT
TRIANGULATION
SMOKE / FIRE
SENSORS
Future Smart Cities and Data services
- Potential source for generation of future
revenues
- Business models, standards, customers
undefined
STREET LIGHTING
CMS
Future SMART Motion
and light sensors could
be installed on selected
poles
LED Consultation: Examples of COMMON issues
Developing business case
—Each city’s circumstances are different - unique history, variety of stakeholders
—Low energy prices and subsidies can weaken business case
—Limited availability of local funding – new business models ?
Local product sourcing
—Many cities want to source from local suppliers – Setting quality thresholds are critical.
‘’by the time the LED trials were completed more than 30%
of suppliers had gone out of business.”
Complex Asset Ownership / Stakeholders
—Consensus between municipalities, utilities and service operators can be difficult
—Existing agreements, contracts may force municipalities along restricted decision paths
LED Consultation: Examples of COMMON issues
Deciding Smart / Intelligent / adaptive light solutions with CMS options?
—Cities may want to develop a flexible, fully controlled, city-wide lighting systems with smart
grid links, prospect of future data services etc…..
“We are offered 50+ different LED lighting options by manufacturers.
We only need 3 or 4 !”
In residential areas…‘we simply need the lights to go on and off’
and save energy…’’ ‘We do not plan to dim the LEDs, residents want the
streets well lit’’
Timing of the upgrade(s)
— Existing agreements or infrastructure may still have remaining ‘life’
— Securing funding for LEDs based on energy savings is easy.
— Securing funding for options that are difficult to monetize can be problematic.
LED Consultation: Examples of COMMON issues
Power Consumption (kW)
Demand for real world data
Not projections
HPS
General LED
example for cities
LED(i)
LED(ii)
DOE(link)
Time of day (Hours)
Bespoke On/Off
Smart Sensor
Solution
LED Consultation: Examples of COMMON issues
High energy efficiency claims.
.. LED Street Lights Transform California
City’s Streets, Cut Energy Use by 65%
LED street lighting trial in 12 of world's largest
cities shows up to 85% energy savings
LEDs could slash street light energy
usage by 97%
Broad energy savings
Using smart configurations
Extreme optimistic predictions
Numbers could be for a fixed luminaire, a dimmed LED, smart triggered LED…
….. or one that is ‘off’ for 99% of the time ….
Clarify the operational context underlying ‘extreme savings’ claims.
LED Consultation: Examples of COMMON issues
Evidence Building: Addressing health questions, remaining myths
IEA Report – Solid
State Lighting Annex
Sep 2014
DoE - USA
EU, IEA, etc.
LED Consultation: Examples of REGIONAL issues
China
Hong Kong
Australia
Gulf Region
Canada
USA
CEE
UK /EU
What adoption barriers are you facing – right now !?
Facilitating LED adoption: New Business Models
‘Lighting as a Service’
New business models needed ?
“This is driven by the market,” ….
Niels Van Duinen
…customers want LEDs and controls,
but they don’t have the knowledge or
the in-house resources” to develop the
end-to-end system and get financing.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/washington-metro-will-install-leds-at-zero-cost
The Climate Group and LED Lighting Consultation
The Climate Group
Link - Main Website
Climate Week New York 2014
Link – Main Event Page
LED Consultation Announcement
Link – Main Announcement at Davos
LED Consultation Web Page
Link – Main Summary Web Page
Link: Consultation
Handout
Summary
For further information please contact:
Dr Ben Ferrari, Climate Group;
Email: bferrari@theclimategroup.org
Peter Curley, Climate Group
Email: pcurley@theclimategroup.org
Niels Van Duinen
Email: niels.van.duinen@philips.com
EXPLOIT LED EFFICIENCY,
USING ON/OFF CONTROLS
‘INTELLIGENT LUMINAIRES’ – PROGRAMMED.
ON/OFF TIMERS PRE-SET DIMMING etc.
+ Fixed bespoke smart sensors – where appropriate
CENTRALISED MANAGEMENT, FLEXIBLE
OPERATION, DIMMING, MONITORING,
FUTURE-PROOF
LIGHTING LINKED OTHER CITY SENSORS
AND SERVICES
‘IoT’, ‘Smart City’