Lighting

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511718786.041

35 - Lighting

from Part 5 - Energy efficiency

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012

Dandan Zhu and

Colin J. Humphreys

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David S. Ginley and

David Cahen

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Colin J. Humphreys: Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
David S. Ginley: Affiliation:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado
David Cahen: Affiliation:
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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Electricity generation is the main source of energy-related greenhouse-gas emissions, and lighting uses one-fifth of its output. Solid-state lighting (SSL) using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is poised to reduce this value by at least 50%, so that lighting will then use less than one-tenth of all electricity generated. The use of LEDs for lighting will provide reductions of at least 10% in fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions from power stations within the next 5–10 years. Even greater reductions are likely on a 10–20-year time scale.

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Artificial lighting is one of the factors contributing significantly to the quality of human life. Modern light sources, such as incandescent light bulbs (a heated tungsten wire in a bulb that is evacuated or filled with inert gas) and compact fluorescent lamps (a phosphor-coated gas discharge tube), use electricity to generate light. Worldwide, grid-based electric lighting consumed about 2650 TW·h of electricity in 2005, some 19% of total global electricity consumption [1]. Using an average cost of $2.8 per megalumen-hour (Mlm·h), the International Energy Agency estimated that the energy bill for electric lighting cost end-users $234 billion and accounted for two-thirds of the total cost of electric-lighting services ($356 billion), which includes lighting equipment and labor costs as well as energy. The annual cost of grid-based electric lighting is about 1% of global gross domestic product.

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Information: Fundamentals of Materials for Energy and Environmental Sustainability , pp. 474 - 490

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511718786.041 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2011

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