US Department of Energy released the latest US lighting market characteristics

Department of Energy, DOE recently unveiled a new Lighting Market Characterization (LMC) featuring lighting installations, total electricity usage and lumens, with data covering the pre-2015 figures.

The last LMC was released in the United States in 2012, which shows the data before 2010. However, solid-state lighting (SSL) was just beginning, so the report mainly used fluorescent lamps instead of incandescent lamps.

The latest report shows the LED on the general lighting market, as of 2015 LED installation volume of 8%. Information from 2015 shows that the electricity consumption for lighting is 64.1 billion kilowatt hours, accounting for 17% of the total electricity consumption; a decrease of 5.9 billion kilowatt hours of lighting electricity is compared with the data in 2012.

The new report also provides in-depth analysis of the use of different lighting markets, including outdoor lighting, residential lighting, commercial lighting and industrial lighting, of which the highest proportion of outdoor lighting. LED application accounted for 23%, up 15% over 2010, followed by commercial lighting accounted 10%, an increase of 8% over 2010.

Jim Brodrick, director of the DOE SSL program, said that many people would expect the installation of more lighting throughout the country with the introduction of CFLs, which is also known as the lighting paradox. However, Brodrick pointed out that the number of luminaires in the United States increased by 500 million from 2010 to 2015, but the reason for this increase is mainly attributed to "new home users" rather than the original home users.

Overall, LED lighting has made great strides since 2010, reaching 8% of permeability by 2015 and 7% more than in 2010.