DOE’s Integrated Lighting Campaign Presents 2022 Awards

The Department of Energy’s Integrated Lighting Campaign (ILC) congratulates 15 participants recognized for exemplary performance in their application of advanced sensors and controls in lighting and the integration of lighting with other building and business systems. Three supporters of the ILC also are recognized for their accomplishments related to advancing the use of advanced or integrated lighting.

Recognized organizations were announced on Aug. 20, 2022, during the 2022 Illuminating Engineering Society Annual Conference.

Participants

DOE recognized the following organizations this year:

• Association of General Contractors, Seattle. This office building replaced legacy lighting to LED lighting with virtually all LLLC, allowing for 474,000 kWh annual savings from reduction in fixtures, high-end trim, and more efficient luminaires/use of controls. Partnering ILC supporter: Seattle City Light
• Chicago Smart Lighting Program, Chicago. The city undertook a massive streetlight modernization project, converting more than 280,000 high-pressure sodium streetlights to high-efficiency LED lights. Beyond improving the quality of nighttime visibility throughout the city, the project is expected to save taxpayers $100 million in electricity costs over the next decade. Partnering ILC supporter: Ameresco
• Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. This higher education facility upgraded to LED lighting with LLLC that allows for automatic dimming, customized light zones, and individual control rather than using a set lumen output throughout the space. The upgrade saves 919,000 kWh and $28,200 per year in maintenance costs.
• Gabus Automotive, Gabus Auto Dealership Campus, Des Moines. This auto dealership employs a motion-activated outdoor lighting system for a campus of auto dealerships. The advanced sensors saved energy, improved safety/security, and reduced impact to the neighboring community from the lighting. Partnering ILC supporter: Enlighten Solutions
• Holt Public Schools, Holt, Mich. This K-12 school district installed nearly 10,000 LED luminaires and retrofit kits, almost 8,000 Bluetooth communicating devices, and 9,000 lighting control devices. The installation helped deliver on the district’s sustainability goals, saving 64% of the energy used by the previous fluorescent lighting system. Partnering ILC supporters: Avi-on Labs, Espen Technology, Trane Technologies
• Home Innovation Research Labs, Upper Marlboro, Md. This research facility, which includes an administrative building and laboratory, retrofitted the lighting in its spaces with LED luminaires and LLLC, with occupancy and daylight harvesting capabilities, saving 564,000 kWh and $4,500 on maintenance costs annually. Partnering ILC supporter: Citizen-Energy
• Missouri Slope Skilled Nursing Facility, Bismarck, N.D. This long-term care provider installed LED lighting with sensors that include multiple technologies: passive infrared with motion detection, photocell for daylight harvesting, and a Bluetooth low-energy receiver that enables location of assets and personnel equipped with Bluetooth tags or badges. Partnering ILC supporter: Cooper Lighting Solutions
• MRA Group’s Spring House Innovation Park, Lower Gwynedd Township, Pa. This research campus installed exterior LED lighting, including parking lots, walking paths, and courtyard space, with wireless advanced controls that allows for detailed scheduling over 35 zones and dimming based on occupancy. Partnering ILC supporter: McWong International
• North Bakersfield Toyota, Bakersfield, Calif. This auto dealership installed a network lighting control system in its parking lots and maintenance bays using LLLC to control light levels to accommodate night-time working hours use as well as improve after-hours security. Partnering ILC supporters: Linmore LED, Silvair
• Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, Portland, Ore. NEEA headquarters is an office building with upgraded LED lighting with LLLC that includes color tuning to provide more comfortable lighting environment for occupants and wireless commissioning for easy installation.
• Seed Capital, Phoenix. This mixed-use facility installed new LEDs and uses the lighting occupancy sensors to trigger an HVAC system reset to standby mode during unoccupied times. This allowed the temperature in the room to rise to a pre-determined level, saving an estimated 120,000 kWh per year, in addition to about 85,500 kWh saved from the lighting upgrade. Partnering ILC supporters: Trane Technologies, Eco Engineering 
• the link, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. This co-working facility employs a power-over-ethernet lighting system that delivers lighting power density less than 0.15 watts per sq ft. The sensors provide temperature and motion data to the building management system, which allows thermostat setpoints to be adjusted based on occupancy.
• University of Vermont, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Burlington, Vt. This greenhouse installed a control system that automates and monitors the HVAC and lighting, as well as the climate curtains, which provide shading and a thermal layer to reduce heating and cooling loads. The control system records and stores historical trend data, which is used to ensure systems maintain ideal conditions for plant health and energy efficiency. Partnering ILC supporter: Resource Innovation Institute 
• Vertical Harvest Farms, Jackson, Wyo. This vertical farm is served by an integrated control system that manages horticultural lighting, HVAC, and watering processes that optimizes resource use. For example, using a light sensor to operate the lights when needed and disable them when sunlight is sufficient to meet crop daily light integral targets. Partnering ILC supporter: Resource Innovation Institute 
• Yamaha Motor Corp.’s Midwestern Distribution Center, Pleasant Prairie, Wis. This distribution center implemented a wireless control network and commissioning software tools along with its lighting upgrade, which eases commissioning and retro-commissioning, as well as saving 250,000 kWh annually.

Supporters

DOE recognized the following organizations this year:

• McWong International, Sacramento, Calif. McWong is recognized as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion. More than 50% of its U.S.-based workforce are from Asian, Southeast Asian, or Hispanic ethnicities and nearly 70% of the U.S.-based workforce are from underserved/underrepresented communities. It is recognized by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council as a woman-owned business and recognized by the National Minority Supplier Development Council as a minority-owned business.
• Puget Sound Energy, Bellevue, Wash. For five years, this utility has promoted and provided incentives to customers to install LLLC luminaires. To date, it has incentivized more than 75 projects with more than 11,000 LLLC luminaires installed in manufacturing, office, warehouse, retail, workshops and school spaces, resulting in more than 2,230,000 kWh saved from the controls alone.
• Resource Innovation Institute, Portland, Ore. RII promotes advanced lighting systems such as LED horticultural lighting and controls and automation systems. It publishes free, brand-agnostic and peer-reviewed best practices guides, hosts live educational workshops nationally and specialized for regions with active controlled environment agriculture markets.