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Impact of Light on Human Beings
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Since launching its LED Lead Market Initiative at the end of 2008, Germanys Federal
Ministry of Education and Research has put up more than 40 million for technology and
municipal pilot projects. With the public lighting competition Kommunen in neuem Licht
and the two sectoral projects UNILED and Performance Quality Label (PQL), it has
shown that LED technology
illuminance
planarity
direction of light,
colour temperature
higher illuminance
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Lighting quality and energy efciency
Good lighting is lighting that meets human needs and nowadays also environmental standards. Lighting quality
and energy efciency are not conicting goals. With modern lighting technology, circadian effective lighting can be
realised without jeopardising energy saving targets.
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LED circadian
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visual comfort
vitality and
individuality.
Circadian lighting solutions
How energy-efficient is circadian-effective
lighting? Does circadian lighting consume
more energy than conventional lighting?
Answering those questions calls for a de-
tailed professional lighting design and a
cost-effectiveness analysis that permits fair
comparison with the alternatives.
It is also a question of perspective: if a cir-
cadian lighting installation is compared
with the best available LED technology, the
answer to the question of higher consump-
tion is yes. But if it is compared with an
older installation replaced in the course of
refurbishment, the answer is a clear no.
Because annual electricity consumption
has steadily decreased in recent decades,
the age of the existing installation plays an
important role. The following example a
lighting installation for a 37m four-person
office shows why. If the lights are on for
2,750 hours a year (as estimated in Ger-
man energy conservation ordinance EnEV),
annual consumption will be as follows: