New Powerline
Control Technology for Lighting and HVAC
Marshall Lester
02-26
EISG Project
Title: New Powerline Control Technology for Lighting and HVAC
EISG Grant Number: 02-26
PIER Area: Energy Systems Integration
Principal Investigator: Marshall Lester
Contact Information: Phone:
(818) 701-9831 email:
mlester@pcslighting.com
Organization: Powerline Control Systems, Inc.
Grant Amount: $74,318
Grant Term: 12 Months
Project Description:
§ Proposes to determine the feasibility of using a new low cost powerline communications strategy for electrical load control in commercial, industrial and institutional buildings.
Proposed Outcomes:
§ A prototype system will be fabricated and field-tested.
Anticipated Benefits:
§ Provides a low cost alternative for implementing load control in the industrial and commercial sectors. Current state of the art systems are too expensive or unreliable in high noise environments.
§ Newly constructed commercial buildings with load control have demonstrated electrical savings of 20-45%. Given the retrofit capability of the proposed system California could save up to 9,000 gWh/year if used just for lighting control (assumes 150,000gWh/year is consumed by commercial/industrial sectors in CA, 80% of these buildings do not have load control, 30% of load is from lighting, and that 25% savings could be achieved).