New Toolkit for Outdoor Lighting Baseline Updates

The primary goal of this study is to develop a new toolkit for conducting an outdoor lighting baseline study for California. This project and subsequent baseline study is crucial for updating the assumptions used in energy efficiency program design, codes and standards development, and for validating baseline energy load profiles in eTRM. Given the significant advancements in outdoor lighting technology since the last baseline study in 2003, an update to the information used to establish nonresidential outdoor lighting energy consumption is both necessary and warranted. The project team developed a framework to categorize different types of data pertaining to outdoor lighting into static and dynamic attributes and different data collection methods into high fidelity and low fidelity methods. We recommend implementing a hybrid approach using both high and low fidelity methods to balance accuracy and resource constraints. This will involve developing a sample of sites, applying both high and low fidelity methods to a sub-sample, and using inference models to enhance the data for sites collected only using the low fidelity methods.