Final Report Lot 9: Public street lighting - Amper

0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The aim of this preparatory study is to provide information on whether and which eco-design
requirements could be set for street lighting products in order to improve their environmental
performance in the framework of Directive 2005/32/EC on eco-design requirements for
energy-using products. The structure of this study is according to the MEEUP methodology and
contains the typical 8 chapters. In a multi-stakeholder consultation, a number of groups and
experts provided comments on a preliminary draft of this report. The report was then revised,
benefiting from stakeholder perspectives and input. The views expressed in the report remain
those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission or
the individuals and organisations that participated in the consultation. A list of stakeholders that
participated in this consultation is included in the appendix.
The MEEUP methodology report structure distinguishes 8 product specific sections:
1. Product Definition;
2. Market and economic analysis;
3. Consumer Behaviour & Local Infrastructure;
4. Technical Analysis Existing Products;
5. Definition of Base Case(s);
6. Technical Analysis of Best Available Technology(BAT) and BNAT;
7. Improvement Potential;
8. Scenario, Policy, Impact and Sensitivity Analyses.
A project report is published toghether with this study, providing more background on how the
preparatory study was conceived and the process to arrive at the results.
Street lighting is without doubt an energy using product that has been installed in European
cities for centuries. Since early mankind, outdoor lighting has contributed to human
development by providing and improving human vision at night. The current (2005) energy
consumption estimated in this study is 35 TWh for the EU25 representing about 1,3 % of the
final energy consumption of electricity in the EU25 (Eurostat definition). Although outdoor
lighting has been around for centuries, the lighting industry made significant technological
progress in the last decades and is still committed for further innovation (see chapter 6). New
installation projects are mostly related to new urbanisation of rural areas and in part to city
beautification. City beautification projects are less related to vision alone. Because street
lighting luminaires have an estimated lifetime of 30 years (see chapter 2), there is a
considerable number of installations that are based on old, energy inefficient technology. As a
consequence, the market for replacement or renovation of those installations is large. However,
new energy efficient technologies are not often a known and recognised reason to speed up
renovation rates. There are few incentives to improve the energy efficiency of the installed park.
An additional barrier to increase the energy efficiency of existing street lighting installations is
the lack of simple, energy saving, retrofit measures such as the self-ballasted Compact
Fluorescent Lamp in domestic lighting. Lamps in street lighting are mostly High Intensity
Discharge lamps that need an appropriate ballast and optic system. In most cases the ballast and
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