7 Energy-Saving Lighting Control Strategies

Aug. 26, 2015
These seven lighting control strategies offer potential savings of anywhere from 5% to 60% of total lighting load.

Most estimates cite lighting load in a commercial building to be somewhere in the 20% to 40% range of the total building load. This means whatever methods you might employ to target a reduction of this load should result in a fairly strong financial payoff when it comes to the monthly energy bill. These seven lighting control strategies offer potential savings of anywhere from 5% to 60% of total lighting load.

Editor's note: This gallery is based on some original source material provided by Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.

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