Recommendations for energy efficient and visually acceptable street lighting

Kostić, Milena; Djokić, Lidija

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2009.06.056

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“…In other cases, such as via Balbo and via Umberto, the luminaires have been replaced with reflector better optics, but also characterized by a suitable design for old town centre reaching also the goal to make uniform the stock of luminaires in each road. [25,26] Obviously, the different Reference Lighting Categories of roads, different reflectance of materials and the different luminaires and lamps installed in each roads gave opportunities to study different solutions, about power, reflector typology and luminaire design. Concerning the installed power, in some cases, such as for via Papa Giovanni case, it was possible to assessing values lower than actual values.…”

Section: Development Of Energy Saving Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improvement of energy efficiency and quality of street lighting in South Italy as an action of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The case study of Comiso (RG)

Beccali

Bonomolo

Ciulla

et al. 2015

Energy

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Existing street lighting systems in most of Sicilian cities are often inappropriate due to the obsolescence of light sources and luminaires and of unsuitable light control systems unable to provide efficient on-off and dimming strategies. Improvement of energy efficiency in street lighting systems can be one of the key actions adopted by Public Administration in developing Sustainable Energy Action Plan in the framework of the "Covenant of Majors" activities. As a task of FACTOR 20 project a set of planning options have been analysed and proposed for Sicilian cities. Particularly, street lighting efficiency projects have been studied for representative case studies. A detailed survey of the public lighting systems in the city of Comiso (RG) allowed to know and represents current and design performance figures such us installed power, luminance and illuminance levels in roads categories, electricity consumption, switching and dimming schedules. To do this many lighting simulations have been performed. Several scenarios have been proposed. The results obtained show that high improvements of the lighting quality are foreseeable together with large energy and economic saving. The proposed methodological approach can be applied in most of Sicilian and South Italy cities.

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Section: Development Of Energy Saving Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Improvement of energy efficiency and quality of street lighting in South Italy as an action of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The case study of Comiso (RG)

Beccali

Bonomolo

Ciulla

et al. 2015

Energy

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“…Public lighting is needed for street and traffic lighting: it contributes to safety, potentially reducing accidents, injuries and crime rates, and increasing pedestrians comfort, thus motivating increased road and street use [290]. Outdoor public lighting can represent up to 3% of the electric energy consumption in a city [291]. Poor lamp design or maladjusted lighting may also result in "energy waste" and "light pollution" (e.g., higher energy consumption and sky glow) [289], [292].…”

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The challenging paradigm of interrelated energy systems towards a more sustainable future

Soares

Martins

Carvalho³

et al. 2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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This paper brings together several contemporary topics in energy systems aiming to provide a literature review based reflection on how several interrelated energy systems can contribute together to a more sustainable world. Some directions are discussed, such as the improvement of the energy efficiency and environmental performance of the systems, the development of new technologies, the increase of the use of renewable energy sources, the promotion of holistic and multidisciplinary studies, and the implementation of new management rules and "eco-friendly and sustainable" oriented policies at different scales. The interrelations of the diverse energy systems are also discussed in order to address their main social-economic-environmental impacts. The subjects covered include the assessment of the electricity market and its main players (demand, supply, distribution), the evaluation of some urban systems (buildings, transportation, commuting), the analysis of the implementation of renewable energy cooperatives, the discussion of the diffusion of the electric vehicle and the importance of new bioenergy systems. This paper also presents relevant research carried out in the framework of both the Energy for Sustainability Initiative of the University of Coimbra and the Sustainable Energy Systems focus area of the MIT-Portugal Program. To conclude, several research topics that should be addressed in the near future are proposed.

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“…The outdoor lighting design process is carried out according to the rules included in a set of lighting design best practices, e.g., [16,17] and relevant standards [4,5,18]. The important factor influencing a designer's performance is experience that allows rejecting a priori all solutions that are not compliant with the above rules.…”

Section: State Of the Art: Outdoor Lighting Design Processmentioning

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Sustainable Street Lighting Design Supported by Hypergraph-Based Computational Model

Sędziwy

2015

Sustainability

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Street lighting systems are significant energy consumers in urban environments. The important step toward the reduction of this energy consumption and, thus, finding a balance between functional requirements and savings-related demands, was introducing LED-based light sources. There still exists, however, a margin for further savings, which is associated with well-tailored designs of road lighting installations. The critical impediment that has to be overcame beforehand is the computational complexity related to preparing such a well-suited design. To make this approach feasible, we propose using the formal graph-based model, enabling efficient heuristic computations. In this article, we demonstrate several real-life cases showing a coarse estimation of potential savings in terms of reduced CO 2 emission. The presented results are expressed in kWh of saved energy, metric tones of CO 2 , but also as a volume of combusted fuels, to make the assessment more tangible.

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Recommendations for energy efficient and visually acceptable street lighting

Cited by 108 publications

References 13 publications

Improvement of energy efficiency and quality of street lighting in South Italy as an action of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The case study of Comiso (RG)

Improvement of energy efficiency and quality of street lighting in South Italy as an action of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The case study of Comiso (RG)

The challenging paradigm of interrelated energy systems towards a more sustainable future

Sustainable Street Lighting Design Supported by Hypergraph-Based Computational Model

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