GE

Lighting

Stadium

Indira Gandhi Stadium

Guwahati

GE Flood Lighting is the premium outdoor light-

Introduction

ing solution for professional arena applications.

Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium (also known as Sarusajai Stadium) is

From the first Major League Baseball game

a football stadium in Guwahati, India. It is currently used mostly for

played under the lights in 1935 to the most re-

football matches and athletics. The stadium can hold about 35,000

cent FIFA 2014 World cup in Brazil, sports fans

spectators and the field size is about 103 m X 70 m. In 2007, this

have enjoyed every second of the action with

stadium hosted the 33rd National Games of India. From 2014, it

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was decided that this ground will be the home ground for North-

From design to commissioning, GE Lighting offer

East United FC which would play in the newly formed Indian Super

complete lighting solution for sports complexes

League.

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GE

and stadiums of any size. The result is the ability

to see all of the action at a night baseball game,
crisply and clearly, whether you are inside the
park enjoying the game in person or watching at
home on TV.

I am very happy with the stadium flood lighting solution

installed by your company at the Sarusajai stadium. I am
finding the GE make flood lights to be very efficient and
actually better than our expectations.
D.Bora
ADDL. Chief Engineer

EF 2000

EF 2000+

EURO 2000

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Customer Requirement
The current installation was not FIFA complaint and the
lighting levels had to be upgraded to meet the FIFA guidelines. In the old lighting scheme, low efficiency 2 kw fixtures
were employed.
Other details on the lighting installation are as follows

No of High Mast 4 Nos

Height of Mast - 50 Mtr

Flood Lights Per Mast 82

Total lights = 82 x 4 = 328 nos

Flood Light Wattage 2 KW

Maximum Vertical lux achieved on ground (center) is approx. 500 Lux, while minimum (Near Goal Line & Corners) was approx. 200 lux.

Maximum Horizontal lux achieved on ground is approx.700 Lux, while minimum was approx. 250 lux.

Proposed Solution
The customer called on GE to replace their old in-efficient fixtures with their state of the art, high efficiency EF 2000 plus fitting. The scope of the contract also called for an end to end solution involving Supply, Installation, Testing & Commissioning of
the entire lighting installation.

Benefits
GE replaced 328 nos of the old fixture with 312 no's of EF 2000+ and was able to upgrade the lux levels to more than 2000.
Usage of the of high efficiency flood light systems & globally acclaimed Metal Halide 2 kw short arc lamp technology ensured
high electrical saving to the tune of 20 % over the corresponding conventional 2 kw lighting systems.
Other details are as follows

Eh 3500 lux ; (Emin/Emax =0.6, Emin/Eavg=0.8)

Ev - >2000 lux ; (Emin/Emax =0.6, Emin/Eavg=0.7)

Conclusions

LUX levels were upgraded to meet FIFA requirements

Minimum LUX level observed was 2500 while the average LUX level observed was around 3000.

LUX levels came down to 1600 even after switching off one mast which was within the acceptable levels.

This Case Study has beenPrepared by

Compiled by

GE India Industrial Pvt. Ltd

Tanay Thakur

Gautam Rangan

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