Lighting Business Care: A Report Analyzing Technology Opportunities with High Return on Investment Energy Savings for the Federal Sector

摘要

Lighting in buildings remains a huge energy savings opportunity that is highly competitive with other Federal energy savings opportunities in terms of return on investment. The US Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management Program (DOE FEMP) is challenged with executive and legislative goals that are increasingly difficult to meet as energy efficiency becomes more challenging in the Federal market. Given these challenges FEMP must be selective when making programmatic investments; there must be a high probability of success and a clear path toward meeting energy savings goals. It is with these things in mind that the Lighting Business Case has been developed. Lighting technology is evolving at a rapid pace and yet standard practice with respect to lighting in Federal facilities has not similarly evolved. Federal facilities are generally slow to embrace new and emerging technologies due to a series of complex factors. The best lighting efficiency opportunities are underutilized in both retrofits and new construction largely because energy efficiency contractors are not sufficiently motivated or able to try new and unfamiliar strategies. This is not from lack of interest; their best intentions are thwarted by market barriers and obstacles such as lack of awareness, expertise, excessive risk, high costs, and procurement challenges. Intervention is necessary to realize energy savings and meet the legislated goals. This report presents analysis and data that has been used to determine high value energy savings opportunities, and provides a series of candidate (suggested) tasks to implement the opportunities indicated by analysis. Candidate tasks are shown to address market barriers and have performance metrics provided for measurement of progress against the goals. Analysis included detailed information about four specific high-value lighting technologies and their usages, projected market penetration into the Federal building stock, and the potential energy savings shown against FEMP goals.