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The French market for intelligent lighting is estimated at over 1.5 billion.
There are around 48 million intelligent lighting units on the global market. The global market for intelligent street lighting is over $10 billion. 35% of intelligent lighting units installed worldwide are in Europe
In France, the public lighting sector accounts for a significant proportion of local authorities' energy consumption and expenditure.
Street lighting accounts for over 40% of local authorities' electricity consumption, 16% of their energy consumption and 37% of their electricity bills. The total cost of street lighting in France is in excess of 2.3 billion euros.
The switch to intelligent, energy-efficient lighting is therefore a major challenge. The increased adoption of LEDs and the reduction of lighting during off-peak hours are becoming widespread.
France has 11 million urban lighting fixtures , many of which are over 25 years old. 35% of the country's urban lighting is in need of modernization. LEDs now account for around 15% of the total, and are seen as the gateway to future intelligent lighting solutions. Smart, connected systems could deliver energy savings of between 50% and 75%.
The market is expected to stabilize at around 1.5 billion euros in the early 2020s.
Players in the French intelligent street lighting market
- Public decision-makers: Municipalities and local authorities are at the forefront of public decision-making. They initiate the transformation of urban spaces through intelligent lighting projects by issuing invitations to tender. They prepare the ground for market requirements, defining specifications that align with ecological objectives and smart city visions.
- SPIE: infrastructure pioneers in lighting implementation services.
- Comatelec Schreder supplier of lighting equipment essential to the intelligent public lighting system.
- EDF plays an essential role in supplying electricity to public lighting installations.
- Eclatec: Manufacturer of public lighting
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1 Market overview
1.1 Definition and scope of study
The intelligent street lighting market brings together a range of players and companies whose aim is to provide lighting for roads and public spaces, whether for the comfort or safety of users, combining certain environmental and technological criteria to make the city a smart, sustainable space. Several activities are involved in this market: supply of lighting equipment, supply of energy, construction of appropriate infrastructures, networking platforms, control of technologies.
There are four types of players in this market:
- Public decision-makers who, through calls for tender, determine market demand (municipalities and local authorities).
- Infrastructure construction and implementationservice providers (e.g. Spie)
- Lightingequipment suppliers (e.g. Comatelec Schreder)
- Energy suppliers (e.g. EDF)
Today, the French street lighting market is dominated by spending on network maintenance. This is followed by expenditure on renewing installations, and then on energy consumption. The renewal of lighting systems involves converting to LED bulbs, which consume less energy and last longer. Indeed, thehe French street lighting market faces two main challenges: economic and ecological. Energy costs are becoming increasingly onerous for local authorities, and they are also facing criticism for greenhouse gas emissions and light pollution.
Many players are now focusing on renewing their existing lighting stock with increasingly innovative intelligent lighting solutions: low-energy lamps, LEDs, connected lighting, lighting plans, etc. All these initiatives are in line with the "smart cities " trend, and suggest that the French street lighting market is set to grow in value in the short to medium term.
France's energy transition objectives are to reduce energy consumption by 20% by 2030 compared with 2012, and to increase the share of renewable energy in final energy consumption to 32%. According to figures published by EDF, the switch to intelligent public lighting is also expected to generate significant savings in energy costs - on the order of 50 to 75%
Local authorities have recorded a net loss in local financeswhich could have an impact on future public spending, including on street lighting. Despite this, the health crisis has done much to reinforce certain emerging trends, such as the renewal of the lighting stock in favor of LEDs and the switching off lightsduring off-peak hours.
1.2 The global market for intelligent street lighting
Worldwide, there are around *** million street lighting luminaires, **% of which are in Asia, **% in Europe and North America, and **% in South America. Global lighting density, in terms of urban population per light point, averages around **, ranging from * in European countries to over ** in Asia-Pacific[***]
Number of light points by country World, ...
1.3 The French market for intelligent street lighting: great growth potential?
In **** in France, street lighting accounted for over **% of local authorities' electricity consumption, **% of their energy consumption and **% of their electricity bill [***]. The switch to intelligent, less energy-intensive and more sustainable lighting is therefore a major challenge for local authorities. According to data collected by the AFE, street lighting in France ...
1.4 The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic
The street lighting market, including intelligent street lighting, is largely financed by local authorities. With the Covid-** health crisis, local finances have been hit hard. The government estimates that local authorities as a whole have suffered a *.* billion euro drop in tax revenues, a *.* billion euro drop in tariff resources, to ...
2 Demand analysis
2.1 Renewing France's lighting stock
The renewal of France's lighting stock represents a real ecological and economic challenge. It also represents a real opportunity for the intelligent lighting market.
Aging lighting stock
Source: ****
In ****, of the * million lighting points, **% were sodium vapor lamps, **% mercury vapor lamps and around **% other lamps (***). [***]
Despite all this, the installed base ...
2.2 Intelligent street lighting meets the multifaceted expectations of French consumers
Street lighting plays a central role in French people's daily lives. For a majority of French people, street lighting is synonymous with safety (***), conviviality and heritage enhancement.
Role of public lighting France, ****, in Source: ****
Nevertheless, in a context of energy crisis and global warming, the French are aware of the importance ...
2.3 Environmental considerations are driving growth in the intelligent street lighting market.
Reducing national energy consumption
Traditional public lighting, i.e. uniform, centralized lighting, results in excessive energy bills. In fact, it's the biggest item of expenditure for local authorities, accounting for **% of electricity bills. Although LED-type lighting still accounts for less than a quarter of all street lighting (***), it still has considerable ...
2.4 Urbanization 2.0 in France drives demand for intelligent street lighting
In ****, **.*% of the French population lived in urban areas, i.e. ** million people. Eight out of ten people live in an urban unit, and almost five out of ten in an urban unit with more than ***,*** inhabitants. The population is concentrated in the largest urban units: **% of French people live in ...
3 Market structure
3.1 A value chain that is becoming increasingly complex with the arrival of new technologies
A complex value chain
The intelligent street lighting value chain is becoming increasingly complex, with the arrival of new players in charge of new technologies and network management platforms. In addition to the existing players in the street lighting sector, there are new start-ups and companies specializing in the development and ...
3.2 Local authorities, a central player in difficulty
The départements are responsible for lighting departmental roads and, where applicable, public works, sites and buildings in their possession. In the case of sections of departmental roads running through built-up areas, the mayor of the commune is responsible for deciding on lighting arrangements[***]. Communes can manage their public lighting either ...
3.3 The different players in the intelligent street lighting market
The market for intelligent street lighting and remote management is highly competitive, with a multitude of players operating in different market segments. The graph below shows the breakdown of market shares as carried out by the firm's Berg Insight study. The main global players in **** were the giants Telensa and Signify, ...
4 Offer analysis
4.1 The smart city - at the heart of intelligent street lighting and remote management solutions
The French Data Protection Authority (***)
In this context, intelligent street lighting was initially aimed at reducing costly energy consumption. Today, new technologies are transforming street lamps and other light points into " multifunctional interactive systems " (***) that collect, aggregate and analyze data in a coherent, responsive system. Today, dimming, which consists in reducing ...
4.2 New players shake up the offering
Start-ups are distinguishing themselves in the street lighting market in two ways: by offering innovative equipment (***).
Start-up Glowee aims to replace electric street lamps with bioluminescent marine bacteria that reproduce endlessly and are biodegradable. The bioluminescence of these bacteria does not yet match the luminous intensity of an electric street lamp, ...
4.3 Switching to LEDs and remote management, the cornerstones of our offer
LEDs: a must?
LED penetration in the street lighting market Worldwide, ****, % Source: ****
In ****, the penetration rate of LEDs in France for street lighting is around **%. by comparison, Japan has reached **%, according to AD Little. And LED imports continue to rise.
LED imports France, **** - ****, in millions of US dollars Source: ****
A ...
4.4 Initiatives by major cities to renew their fleets
In France, only *% to *% of the lighting stock is renewed each year. At this rate, it would take ** years to renew the entire stock[***]. Nevertheless, the need to switch to intelligent lighting is prompting major French cities to invest in the technological renewal of part of their infrastructure.
5 Regulations
5.1 Current regulations
European regulations
The European ErP Directive of **** defined minimum energy efficiency values in three stages (***), depending on the type of lamp:
Since ****, the energy efficiency of metal halide lamps has had to reach ** to over ** lm/W, depending on wattage; In addition, at **,*** hours of operation, they must maintain at least ...
6 Positioning the players
6.1 Positioning the players
- Glowee
- Kawantech
- Lucibel
- BH Technologies
- Citelum groupe
- Citéos (Vinci Energie)
- INEO (Engie Energie Service)
- Valmont France
- Lacroix Groupe
- Nexiode
- Fonroche Lighting
- Upciti
- Solarem
- Clareo Lighting
- ELC Electric Lighting Concept
- Novea Energies
- Eldom
List of charts presented in this market study
- Worldwide street lighting market
- Number of light points by country
- The number of intelligent lighting units
- Worldwide LED penetration rate
- Breakdown of local authority spending on public lighting
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Latest news
Upciti raises €7 million with sensors to manage urban life in real time - 17/11/2023
- Year Upciti was founded: 2017
- Market launch of on-board sensors: May 2022
- Potential reduction in energy costs thanks to lighting adapted to visitor numbers: up to 30%
- Annual revenue from community subscriptions: 1.5 million euros
- Revenue growth target for next year: triple current figure
- Expected workforce after recruitment: 30 employees. The company has signed several contracts in the United States, notably with the State of New York.
Lacroix City regulates traffic and lighting - 25/04/2023
- Lacroix City sales: 109 million euros.
- 400 employees at Lacroix City.
- Growth in street lighting business: 27% by 2022.
- Contract to replace 70,000 to 100,000 lights in Flanders, Belgium.
- lighting accounts for 40% of local authority energy expenditure.
- 50% to 60% savings by replacing conventional bulbs with LEDs.
- additional savings of 80% to 90% thanks to remote lighting management. Adoption of LED lighting in a third of French municipalities.
- Rate of adoption of remote lighting management: 10% to 15%
Lacroix puts its road sign manufacturing business up for sale - 01/03/2023
- A historic turning point for Lacroix, which has just put up for sale its historic manufacture of road signs created in 1930.
- The signage segment up for sale will generate sales of €55 million out of a total of €707.8 million in 2022, employ 315 people and control 25% of the French signage market
- The group has continued to diversify, notably in the electronics industry, "smart city" activities and connected objects for industry.
- The group achieved growth of 41.1% thanks to the acquisition of American electronics manufacturer Firstronics
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