Case study Tesco

Location Philips Lighting

Tesco 140 Stores ECS ECS LMM Lighting Managment System

Philips in partnership with Tesco, has provided an energy efficient lighting control system. That offers an impressive savings of 4M across 140 of its stores by employing the Philips ECS LMM lighting management system.

Tesco helps tackle climate change by adopting Philips ECS Lighting Control Solutions

Fast Facts
Location 140 Stores Installed Lighting System Philips ECS LMM Lighting Management System Project in Partnership with Tesco Philips

Background
With more than 2,100 stores, Tesco is the largest food retailer in the United Kingdom. Providing a vast array of goods and services is not enough these days. Social and environmental concerns now influence how companies are perceived by stakeholders. Tesco embraced its environmental responsibility, leading by example to reduce any negative impacts that its business operations may have on the wider ecological and social community. Tescos energy specialist team were open to how a lighting management system could help here. The ECS LMM system was successfully trialled and approved by Tescos Centre of Excellence. This then allowed a roll out programme to go ahead between February and July this year.

future alterations be necessary as a result of changes to store redesign or layout, these can be done via the Light Manager software package allowing screen based flexibility. The majority of Tescos larger stores have been designed with vast glass panels to allow maximum daylight on to the sales floor. These elements can now be optimised by adoption of the LMM lighting control programme.

Benefits
It was important to provide an efficient and comfortable blanket of light throughout the stores. The decision was, therefore, taken to deploy automatic dimming, linking the lighting directly to trading hours and external natural light levels. This meant that for the round the clock outlets, the average ambient lighting levels went down from 1200 lux to 900 lux for week day trading hours whilst for night trading this was dimmed still further from 900 to 500 lux. During stock replenishment times, the lighting was dimmed from 500 to 300 lux. Further gains were also made by deploying the concept of energy harvesting for the first hour of store trading. Here, it was found that light levels could be maintained at a lower lux level before rising to the prescribed norm without detriment to business operations. Thus, Tesco can take advantage of the free natural daylight that pours in through the window automatically dimming the luminaires so that a constant level of light is maintained in the working space. For the non 24 hour stores similar principles were applied.

Solution
Lighting contributes about 20% of the energy bill. So, any savings gained here can ultimately be channelled back into the business. In simple terms, better lighting that costs less. With targets to halve carbon emissions in all its existing stores by 2020, Tesco were keen to harness the benefits the Philips ECS LMM control system could offer. As Ray Porter, Engineering Delivery Manager for Tesco states, With the replacement of the current high bay lighting installation across 46 of our larger stores, we were able to incorporate the LMM system into the lighting scheme thereby maximising the significant energy savings it offered. Tesco have instigated a flexible networked lighting control and management programme, which could be easily operated via its intranet system. A key benefit to the system is that the new luminaires are linked to an area controller, this in turn can be connected to one central point. Should any

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