Lighting

Why Does the US Lag Behind Europe for Human-Centric Lighting?

Human-Centric Lighting (HCL) is a rapidly emerging technology in the lighting space. Our latest report estimates the global HCL market to be worth $849 million in 2019, growing to $3.5 billion in 2024. North America and Europe are generally comparable when investigating the development of general lighting and wider building system related analyses. However, the situation is different with HCL due to a number of factors outlined in the report. European companies have stolen a march on the rest of the world with an estimated 46% of global HCL revenue, our report found, North America lags behind with $238.3 million in HCL revenue or 28% of the global market. As discussed in our recent article, Europe’s weather, latitude, and older building stock offers some explanation for European HCL dominance, but North America’s must also reflect on some issues affecting its own HCL market development too. Like Europe, the US is home to many older, established […]

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