Signify calls on world to accelerate transition to energy-efficient connected LED lighting

Signify advocates a fast transition to energy-efficient connected LED lighting to accelerate decarbonization and advance digitalization for businesses and consumers. World and business leaders should focus on making changes that deliver results quickly and impact both the professional and consumer lighting markets.

More than a decade after Signify’s call to phase out the incandescent light bulb around the globe, it now calls for the transition to energy-efficient connected LED lighting as the new standard of ‘general lighting’. The move will contribute to meeting the goals of economic recovery plans around the world.

According to Signify’s findings, switching to LED lighting in the professional market could reduce CO2 emissions by 553 million tonnes, the amount of emissions that 25 billion trees could sequester in a year. Making the switch would also generate electricity savings of 1,132 TWh, which is equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 494 million households. This would save a total of EUR 177 billion per year on electricity costs.