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The goals of this project
are to:
- Test,
analyze and determine the potential of electronic
ballasts for HID lighting systems in cooperation with
manufacturers as an emerging energy efficient technology
to reduce lighting loads in commercial, industrial
and municipal applications.
- Identify
control strategies to further improve the energy efficiency
of these systems with a municipal partner.
- Provide
appropriate recommendations for incorporating these
technologies into current state codes and regulations.
Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
is leading the research and development work for this
project.
This
project meets the PIER Goal of Improving the Energy
Cost/Value of California's Electricity and secondarily
meets the PIER Goal of Improving Environmental Costs
and Reliability of California's Electricity, by reducing
lighting loads in commercial, industrial and municipal
applications.
The
objective of this project is to evaluate the potential
of electronic ballasts and related controls for HID
lighting systems to improve the efficiency of current
technology. These technologies promise to improve the
operating efficiency of HID lighting systems by as much
as 40 percent through improved performance in both the
ballast and lamp operation, and through control of the
light output. Special attention will be paid to the
ballasts, which provide control of the light output.
Reducing light output, and consequently energy use,
to suit the application optimizes the use of electrical
energy by California's end users, and improves the reliability
of the source by reducing peak load demands.
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Project
Information for Evaluation of Electronic Ballasts
and Related Controls for HID Lighting Systems
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Current
PIER projects outside of this contract are investigating
utilization of daylighting; this project supports those
activities by determining energy and performance characteristics
of technologies that reduces the electric lighting-load
necessary to supplement lighting from these daylight
sources. Electrical and photometric characteristics
of the lamp, ballast and lighting systems will be tested,
and the results will be compared to the current technology
of magnetic ballasted systems. The evaluation will determine
the performance improvements for each component of the
system. ANSI standards will be followed in performing
these tests
The
energy and peak demand savings potential for applications
in California will be analyzed and estimated.
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