The projected Market Impact for the Low Glare Outdoor Luminaire work is to decrease the electric energy use by up to 30 percent in outdoor lighting associated with parking areas and pathways for buildings.

This can be achieved through installing "high glare" luminaires with a low glare systems that utilizes a high color rendering lamp operated by an electronic ballast. A prototype field test will be performed in which an outdoor lighting system is characterized before and after installation of the system. This prototype field test will provide quantifiable measurements on the improvement in visual performance and demonstrate the reduction in lighting load for the outdoor lighting system. These measurements will follow the techniques currently employed in the PIER Outdoor Lighting Baseline Assessment study with New Buildings Institute. If this technology were applied to all commercial outdoor area lighting and to roadway lighting, the savings realized for California could be 1.4 TWh/yr.