Published: 28 May 2025
Category: White Papers and technical guides
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Unlocking Negawatts: The role of lighting in energy security and decarbonisation
With lighting alone offering €600 billion in potential savings, this whitepaper provides urgent and actionable steps for policymakers and businesses to prioritise energy efficiency improvements before investing in renewable energy capacity ‘Megawatts’ to achieve climate targets.
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Unlocking Negawatts: The role of lighting in energy security and decarbonisation
Published: 28 May 2025 · Category: White Papers and technical guides
With lighting alone offering €600 billion in potential savings, this whitepaper provides urgent and actionable steps for policymakers and businesses to prioritise energy efficiency improvements before investing in renewable energy capacity ‘Megawatts’ to achieve climate targets.
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Unlocking negawatts: The role of lighting in energy security and decarbonization Developed in collaboration with Foreword Despite substantial progress, conventional lighting continues to account for a significant portion of the global lighting stock. This reliance on outdated technologies represents a missed opportunity to harness negawatts1 the energy savings unlocked through energy efficiency. Addressing this can drastically reduce energy demand, an incredibly timely issue since it was included in the COP28s pledge to double annual energy efficiency improvement rates and triple renewable energy capacity by 2030.2 As a business, Signify is dedicated to developing innovative technologies that deliver exceptional energy savings. Equally important is bringing together non-profit organizations, like Climate Group, politicians, and business leaders from the global sphere to accelerate the transition away from legacy lighting systems and toward smarter, more efficient solutions. This white paper seeks to show world leaders the potential of lighting as a first line of defense in solving the most pressing global challenge of our time. 1 'Negawatts' in the context of energy efficiency is a term coined by Armory Lovins, physicist and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute 2 Executive summary of the COP28 pledge to triple renewable capacity from the IEA 2 Unlocking negawatts: The role of lighting in energy security and decarbonization For the past 20 years, Climate Group has...
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