Improved daylight data for predicting energy savings from photoelectric controls

Abstract

This paper draws attention to recently obtained, comprehensive, up-to-date information on daylight availability. Samples of the new data are given and their usefulness demonstrated by a series of worked examples in which the energy savings from photoelectric controls for an interior lighting installation are estimated.

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