The project on Integration of Electric Lighting Controls with Utility DR Signals sought to identify the most cost-effective and reliable combinations of utility DR signals and electric lighting controls to implement automated DR capabilities with bi-directional communication capabilities that will allow utilities to get feedback on achieved lighting load reductions. The project focused on lighting loads and is applicable to all buildings.
Project team: Southern California Edison (SCE) and the CLTC
The SCE project team installed Advanced Lighting Controls Systems, produced by Convia, Universal Lighting, and Lutron, in an office building in Irwindale, California. The main objectives tested
were to determine the following:
1) Will these advanced lighting controls systems allow for reliable remote control of the lighting loads as part of a Demand Response Program?
2) What are the energy savings that can be achieved?
Each of the new controls systems claimed remote control capability, enabling tuning, scheduling, and demand response capability.
All three of the installed systems were able to respond successfully to the requirements of demand response operation and to provide energy savings.
The above graph shows the drop in lighting power and the corresponding demand savings captured during the test period. Demand savings of up to approximately 35% were achieved during testing.
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