Building on last year’s Sustainable Lighting session, this presentation explores the next frontier: integrating daylight, renewable energy, storage, and advanced lighting controls. We will examine how daylight harvesting, dynamic shading, on-site solar PV, and battery storage can reduce reliance on artificial lighting while improving comfort and resilience. A key focus will be networked lighting controls (NLCs) and their ability to support demand response and peak load reduction, especially through Ontario’s Save on Energy incentives. Attendees will see how combining storage, predictive controls, and renewable-aware strategies enables buildings to actively support grid flexibility, carbon reduction, and long-term sustainability.
Learning Objectives
- Explain how daylight harvesting, dynamic shading, and renewable integration reduce artificial lighting demand while improving occupant comfort.
- Evaluate the role of battery storage and DC microgrids in supporting resilient, renewable-powered lighting systems.
- Identify how networked lighting controls (NLCs) enable demand response and peak load reduction, and how these are supported by Ontario’s Save on Energy incentives.
- Apply predictive and grid-interactive lighting strategies to help buildings actively contribute to grid flexibility and decarbonization.
