Natural Lighting

Natural lighting (sometimes referred to as daylighting) can make a big difference in an energy bill. Natural lighting can also make a big difference in the joy people get from living and working in a naturally lighted environment.

Natural Lighting

Saving energy by bringing daylight into a built environment is believed by many to be a green energy invention. Actually, designers have been designing natural light into buildings since the beginning of building design. They were doing that centuries before the discovery of electricity. They took advantage of natural lighting because it just felt and looked good.

Today, you can take advantage of natural lighting (or daylighting) to reduce your energy bill, or to create a more soothing and emotionally satisfying environment, or both.

Natural daylighting will save you energy and money as it makes your home or commercial building more economical to operate. Natural daylighting makes commercial buildings more desirable for leasing. Because people like to live and work inside buildings that are rich with daylight, they often pay more rent to do so.

In state-of-art daylighting installations, the colors, intensity and placement of electric lights can be coordinate with natural lighting through installing fewer electric lights, energy efficient electric bulbs with appropriate light color frequencies and by dimming/switching electric lights automatically in response to natural lighting levels. This process is often referred to as daylight
harvesting.

Natural Lighting And Your
Green Energy Roadmap

Natural lighting is just one of the several dozen green energy opportunities that can reduce your energy bill. While each of these technologies provides unique benefits, no single one is a "magic bullet."

Getting the best return on your natural lighting investment will require integrating the most cost-effective combination of technologies possible. Consider natural lighting as just one component of your Green Energy Roadmap.