Energy Efficiency in Lighting: Concepts, Potentials and Challenges

摘要

As one of the major consumers of electric power the lighting business has a huge potential for energy saving. The presentation highlights the state of the art and trends in the domains of light sources and converter technology especially regarding efficiency. Specific market requirements and technological challenges of the 3 important light-sources Fluorescent (FL), High Pressure Discharge (HID) and Light Emitting Diode (LED) are discussed. Concepts for top performance at lowest cost for the different converters are presented as an overview.