DOE Releases Caliper Report on LED Industrial Luminaires

Report finds the latest generation of LED products in this category offer greater performance than their non-LED luminaire counterparts.

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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solid-State Lighting program has released a new CALiPER (Commercially Available LED Product Evaluation and Reporting) snapshot report for LED Industrial luminaires. Key findings of the report, which use the DOE’s LED Lighting Facts database, are as follows:

  • The efficacy of LED industrial luminaires is notably higher than what’s typical of their incumbent counterparts. About 23% of the industrial luminaires listed with LED Lighting Facts listed products have a luminous efficacy greater than 130 lm/W.
  • Listed industrial fixtures have higher efficacy performance than listed linear, troffer, area/roadway, and parking garage fixtures.
  • Color and power quality for listed industrial luminaires is similar to that of their conventional counterparts. The listed products have a variety of CCTs (correlated color temperature), with the majority (51%) at least 5000K, and 65% of the luminaires have a CRI Ra in the 80s.


Overall, the full report indicates that LED industrial products offer “…a more compelling alternative to their incumbent counterparts.” The CALiPER program was launched by the DOE in 2006 to provide a platform for “…unbiased, trusted product performance information in the early years of SSL.”

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Elizabeth Donoff

Elizabeth Donoff is Editor-at-Large of Architectural Lighting (AL). She served as Editor-in-Chief from 2006 to 2017. She joined the editorial team in 2003 and is a leading voice in the lighting community speaking at industry events such as Lightfair and the International Association of Lighting Designers Annual Enlighten Conference, and has twice served as a judge for the Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) Lumen Award program. In 2009, she received the Brilliance Award from the IESNYC for dedicated service and contribution to the New York City lighting community. Over the past 11 years, under her editorial direction, Architectural Lighting has received a number of prestigious B2B journalism awards. In 2017, Architectural Lighting was a Top Ten Finalist for Magazine of the Year from the American Society of Business Publication Editors' AZBEE Awards. In 2016, Donoff received the Jesse H. Neal Award for her Editor’s Comments in the category of Best Commentary/Blog, and in 2015, AL received a Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Media Brand (Overall Editorial Excellence).Prior to her entry into design journalism, Donoff worked in New York City architectural offices including FXFowle where she was part of the project teams for the Reuters Building at Three Times Square and the New York Times Headquarters. She is a graduate of Bates College in Lewiston, Me., and she earned her Master of Architecture degree from the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.

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