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Parking lots

Summary

 

Want to save energy on your parking lot lighting.

You could shut down specific lamps of multi-lamp poles, put them on schedules, enable a daylight harvesting program,

without ever having to run new control wires.

DimOnOff will help you do that, easily, and with a great payback.

Please, read on.

The DimOnOff® solution

Exterior lighting represent very large costs of energy for commercial parking lots, car dealerships, parks and a multitude of other environments. Lighting sources are often in the order of 400W to 1000W, and are traditionally controlled by photocells. These areas are typically lit from sunset to sunrise the next day, but the majority of these environments closes at 21h, and do not require the exterior lighting to be at 100% for the rest of the night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Figure 1: Relay 10A DimOnOff®

 REL-R-10

Figure 2: Clock panel DimOnOff®

 Clock Panel


The DimOnOff® technology allows to create virtual groups of relays (i.e., dynamically, via software, over the powerline). For example, in the case of parking lots, a contractor will traditionally create 2 or 3 groups each comprised of half/third of the lamps. Lamps are distributed in an alternating fashion in each of these groups. This way, at the chosen shut-down time, the numerical clock will execute the power-off of one or several groups of lamps.

A standard car dealership parking lot will be equipped with around 40 lamps consuming each 400W, and if ½ of it is shutdown between 10hPM and 6hAM, very large energy savings are created (4195$ in Ontario at 0.086$/kWh, and much more in New-England and the West coast states). Moreover, the lighting power being reduced by half, it becomes less intrusive for the residents in the neighborhood.

Also, Groups of lights being turned on and off, are rotated from day to day. Therefore, the whole of the lighting system will be used uniformly, and helps to minimize the frequency of maintenance.


Project costs

With its powerline technology, DimOnOff® offers a simple solution, yet with a very quick installation time, and a solution that pays for itself quickly from the energy savings.

The following is the typical Bill of material required to implement a lighting control & automation system for a typical parking lot of 40 lamps - 400W:

Material:

40 REL-R-10 Relays 10A
1 CAB-CLK-4 Control panel with clock
Pre-configuration
Total 8,100.00 $


Return on investment

If we assume a nominal power consumption of 400W per lamp and 40 lamps, we obtain the following energy consumption profile and annual energy savings generated by the system:

Power used by 40 lamps (in W): 16,000
Total usage (in h/day): 12
Total annual consumption (in KWh): 70,080
Cost of electricity (in $) 6,623$ (at a rate of $0.086/kWh) 

By shutting down half of the lights after 10hPM, we get the following savings:

Ratio lamps turned off / Total between 10hPM and 6hAM: 1/2
Annual savings (in KWh): 23,360
Annual savings (in $): 2,208 $

This calculation is based on a price of 0,086$/KWh, which is the commercial tariff of Hydro-One. To encourage it commercial clients to take energy savings actions, Hydro-One gives a financial support for these projects. For the exterior lighting, it is possible to get as much as $100 per lamp. In this case of a typical parking lot, we would therefore get the following financial support:

Number of lamps: 40
Grants per lamp: 100$
Total grant: 4,000.00$

Payback period for the project (in years)

With HO grants: 0.82
Without HO grants: 1.62

Even without the grant, the system presents a quick payback.

With the grant, it 's a no-brainer!

One should not oversee the savings on re-lamping costs. Since we will decrease the operating hours of the lamps, we will stretch the frequency of maintenance jobs and create additional direct savings. Without the DimOnOff® system, based on a 12h lighting mode per day, every day of the year, each light will be used 4380 hours per year. With the DimOnOff® system, a lamp will be turned on 12h one day then only 4h the next day. Annually, each lamp will be turned on 1,460 hours less. For a lighting module with a 16,000 hours life time, its operating life will increase from 3.65 years to 5.47 years.


Realizations (specifically Parking lots)

A multitude of Car dealerships have been generating savings with the DimOnOff® system. Here is a partial list:

Brantford Chrysler
Brantford Honda-
Eastway Chrysler, Ontario
Forbes Ford, Grimsby
Hogan Chevrolet, Scarborough, Ontario
J. Lockwood Chrysler
Johnston Chrysler, Guelph, Ontario
Kerr Chevrolet
Kerr Pontiac Cadillac
North York Chevrolet
Oakville Nissan Infiniti
Performance Car
Raceway Chrysler
Scarborough Town Chrysler, Scarborough, Ontario
Sterlington Honda
VW Waterloo
Wellington Motors, Guelph, Ontario

 

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