Energy-Efficient Lighting Market Report 2026

Energy-Efficient Lighting Market Overview

• Energy-Efficient Lighting market size has reached to $59.8 billion in 2025 • Expected to grow to $85.36 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.4% • Growth Driver: Government Energy Efficiency Initiatives Driving Growth In The Energy-Efficient Lighting Market • Market Trend: Adoption Of Ultra Efficient LED Luminaires To Reduce Energy Consumption • Europe was the largest region in 2025 and Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing region.

What Is Covered Under Energy-Efficient Lighting Market?

Energy-efficient lighting refers to lighting technologies and solutions that consume less energy while providing the same or improved level of illumination compared to traditional lighting options. These are widely used in homes for various lighting applications, including general illumination, task lighting, accent lighting, and outdoor lighting. The main types of energy-efficient lighting are high-intensity discharge lamps (HID), linear fluorescent lamps (LFL), light emitting diodes (LED), and others. High-intensity discharge lamps (HID) are a type of electric gas-discharge lamp that produces light by passing an electric current between tungsten electrodes within a gas-filled arc tube. These are used in various applications, such as residential, commercial, industrial, outdoor, and others, and are used by the various end users such as government, healthcare, education, retail, hospitality, and others.

What Is The Energy-Efficient Lighting Market Growth Forecast?

The energy-efficient lighting market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $85.36 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.4%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increasing adoption of smart home ecosystems, growing preference for adaptive brightness technologies, rising integration of occupancy and ambient sensors, expansion of solar hybrid home lighting systems, rising focus on reducing residential electricity consumption. Major trends in the forecast period include growing adoption of led based lighting solutions, increasing demand for smart app controlled lighting, rising shift toward human centric lighting design, expansion of solar powered residential lighting, growing use of dimmable and color tunable lighting systems.

Global Energy-Efficient Lighting Market Segmentation

1) By Type: High-Intensity Discharge Lamps (HID), Linear Fluorescent Lamps (LFL), Light Emitting Diodes (LED), Other Types 2) By Application: Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Outdoor, Other Applications 3) By End-User: Government, Healthcare, Education, Retail, Hospitality, Other End-Users Subsegments: 1) By High-Intensity Discharge Lamps (HID): Metal Halide Lamps, High Pressure Sodium (HPS) Lamps, Low Pressure Sodium (LPS) Lamps 2) By Linear Fluorescent Lamps (LFL): T5 Fluorescent Lamps, T8 Fluorescent Lamps, T12 Fluorescent Lamps 3) By Light Emitting Diodes (LED): LED Bulbs, LED Tubes, LED Fixtures 4) By Other Types: Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL), Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED), Induction Lamps

What Is The Driver Of The Energy-Efficient Lighting Market?

The government's energy-efficiency initiatives are expected to fuel the growth of the energy-efficient lighting market going forward. Energy-efficiency initiatives refer to programs, policies, or actions implemented to reduce energy consumption and increase energy efficiency. Government initiatives are helpful in advancing energy-efficient lighting through the establishment of standards, supporting research and development, and promoting cross-sector collaboration. For instance, in March 2024, according to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, a UK-based government department, during 2023, around 318,600 energy efficiency measures were installed through government schemes, an increase of 49% compared with 2022. Therefore, the government's energy-efficiency initiatives are driving the energy-efficient lighting industry.

Key Players In The Global Energy-Efficient Lighting Market

Major companies operating in the energy-efficient lighting market are General Electric Company, Schneider Electric SE, ABB Group, Toshiba corporation, Philips Lighting, Eaton Corporation, Signify N.V., OSRAM GmbH, Hubbell Lighting Inc., Acuity Brands, Zumtobel Group AG, Seoul Semiconductor Co. Ltd., Cree Inc., Bajaj Electricals Ltd., Leviton Manufacturing Co. Inc., Dialight, Lumileds Holding B.V., Cooper Lighting, The Lighting Quotient, Bridgelux Inc., Soraa Inc., Advanced Lighting Technologies Australia Inc., Nichia Corporation, Savant Systems Inc.

Global Energy-Efficient Lighting Market Trends and Insights

Major companies are operating in the energy-efficient lighting market, focusing on developing technological advancements such as high-efficacy LED luminaires with smart controls to enhance energy savings, improve lighting quality, and support sustainable building operations. A high-efficacy LED luminaire integrates advanced LED modules, optimized optics, and smart sensors allowing significantly higher light output per watt, tunable white light, and dynamic control compared to traditional fluorescent or incandescent lighting, while reducing maintenance and energy costs. For instance, in April 2024, Signify N.V., a Netherlands-based lighting company, launched the Philips PowerBalance UltraEfficient LED Luminaire range. The product delivers up to 21.7% more energy savings compared to standard LED luminaires, provides high-quality tunable white lighting, supports modular retrofit installation, and uses 3D-printed components to optimize material usage and thermal management.

What Are Latest Mergers And Acquisitions In The Energy-Efficient Lighting Market?

In March 2025, Elemental LED, Inc., a U.S.-based provider of engineered LED lighting solutions, acquired Gammalux Lighting Systems for an undisclosed amount. This acquisition expands the company's portfolio in architectural and commercial energy-efficient lighting, strengthens its presence in the U.S. market, enhances product offerings with specification-grade linear LED luminaires, and positions it to capture opportunities in energy-efficient lighting solutions. Gammalux Lighting Systems is a U.S.-based company that specializes in manufacturing architectural linear LED luminaires.

Regional Outlook

Europe was the largest region in the energy-efficient lighting market in 2025. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in this market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in this market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

What Defines the Energy-Efficient Lighting Market?

The energy-efficient lighting market consists of sales of LED bulbs and fixtures, smart lighting systems, daylight harvesting controls, and energy-efficient outdoor lighting solutions. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

How is Market Value Defined and Measured?

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified). The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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