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The document discusses the U.S. Department of Energy's Lighting Research and Development program. It provides an overview of the program's goals, roles, planning process, past accomplishments, and future opportunities and directions. The program aims to advance energy-efficient lighting technologies that support health, productivity, and well-being through public-private partnerships and by convening experts to identify priorities and fund research.

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SSL rd21 Walker Future

The document discusses the U.S. Department of Energy's Lighting Research and Development program. It provides an overview of the program's goals, roles, planning process, past accomplishments, and future opportunities and directions. The program aims to advance energy-efficient lighting technologies that support health, productivity, and well-being through public-private partnerships and by convening experts to identify priorities and fund research.

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Lighting R&D: What’s next?

Brian Walker, Ph.D.


Manager, DOE Lighting R&D
February 4, 2021 1
Lighting R&D uses a tested approach

Key DOE Roles

CONVENE PLAN CO-FUND SHARE


DOE topical meetings Based on those priorities DOE funds competitively DOE ensures open
and workshops bring DOE sets technology awarded and cost-shared information flow and
innovators together milestones and creates projects aligned with provides analyses that spur
to identify priority an annual SSL R&D the plan technology advances and
challenges Opportunities documet inform future R&D priorities

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 2


Planning: multiple opportunities for engagement
SSL community input from workshops and small topical meetings shape
R&D priorities and DOE solicitations

Products Continual
Engagement

Project/ Workshop
Peer Review

R&D
Awards Opportunities DOE targets push industry to levels of
Document efficacy and performance that might
not otherwise be achieved.
Solicitation Analysis of emerging products prompts
improvements, informs R&D priorities.
https://energy.gov/eere/ssl/research-development

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 3


Technology pipeline shows progress and potential
The adoption of LED lighting is progressing, but there is still significant head room in many segments.

New Directions in Light


• First focus: saving energy via more efficient
light sources for general illumination.

• Now (LAE): saving energy via more efficient


sources and control of generation/delivery.

• Potentially: saving energy beyond general


illumination where there are opportunities
for impact.

Evaluate technology problems/solutions based on energy savings, productivity benefits, and occupant comfort.
• Current total energy consumptions in the application; • Productivity, comfort, and other non-energy benefits associated
• Projected future energy consumption; with application; and
• Prospects for technology enabled efficiency improvements; • Technology leverage with general illumination technologies
• Impacts of DOE Lighting R&D support;

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 4


Lighting R&D results to date

335 352 346 1,328 14.7


Projects Patents Products tBTU Billion

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 5


What’s in Brian’s crystal ball?

Overall: Progress toward energy-efficient lighting that supports health,


productivity, and well-being

• Select interests:
– Application efficiency: source, delivery, spectrum, intensity
– Integration: technology, program
– Quality: optimized spectrum, reduced glare/flicker, etc.
– Resources to support a diverse, robust industry and workforce

• Commercial segment: address concerns, increase competitiveness of LED,


feedback with manufacturing
• “What’s the frontier?”
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 6
Innovations that save energy when using light
Lighting R&D Goals
Energy-Efficient Lighting That Supports
Health, Productivity, and Well-Being

Platform Technology Lighting Science & Analysis


Application-focused R&D Reckoning SSL value/potential
• Efficiency gains (source +) • Energy efficiency
• Materials and components • Impacts: visual & non-visual physiology,
safety, learning, animal welfare…

Integration/Validation
• SSL + other technologies, real settings
• Failure modes
• Design, including new form factors
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 7
Backup slides:
What did we do about this in 2020?

8
Accomplishments: FY19–20

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Advanced Lighting


studies:
• Tunable Lighting: Nurses’ Satisfaction with Patient Room Lighting
Conditions
• Connected Lighting: Modeling Lighting Contributions for Grid Services
• Peer-reviewed papers in progress

RTI International studies:


• Lumen and Chromaticity Maintenance Behavior of LED Packages
• Stress Testing Results for OLED Panels and Luminaires

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 9


Accomplishments: FY20
Lumileds: high luminance, high-efficacy LED platform for
directional lighting
• Today, efficiency in multi-emitter modules drops off as brightness
increases from droop and getting light out
• Higher brightness to improve optical control and energy savings
from more light on target
• Using novel manufacturing growth process to more closely pack
emitters, Lumileds demonstrated luminous emittance of 80 lm/mm2
and efficacy of 113 lm/W Lumileds’ prototype high-luminance LEDs in dense array, with
center LED lit up.

Sustainable Manufacturing of Luminaires Challenge Winner:


Bamboo Pendant
• Design incorporates bio-derived and biodegradable, low-toxicity,
sustainable materials
• Highlighted in trade publications (LEDs Magazine, LD+A)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 10


Near-term pipeline (PNNL)
IES Sky Glow Technical Memorandum (TM)
• Concerns expressed over detriment of light at night, including
increased brightness of the night sky, has increased with adoption
• Recommendations on reducing human contributions to light in
the night sky
• Methods to estimate effectiveness of options

Cook County, IL (Pilot): Circadian Lighting


Design/Evaluation
• Investigate effectiveness of a lighting system and design
• Develop and demonstrate sustainable, evidence-based lighting
design for the selected spaces, and experiments to measure
and evaluate impact

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 11


Near-term pipeline (PNNL)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 12

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