Luminaire-Level Lighting Controls 2025 State of the Market Report
Results
- The Minnesota market favors traditional, non-networked, non-embedded, wired controls.
- Despite valuing LLLC benefits, most building owners never consider LLLC adoption due to low awareness and contractor skill gaps in selling, installing, and support.
- Market actors see norms shifting toward LLLC.
Highlights
Objectives
The ETA team undertook several primary data collection efforts in 2025 and early 2026 to gather up-to-date information about LLLC awareness, adoption, benefits, and barriers in Minnesota.
Scope
The primary data collection included phone interviews with manufacturers, manufacturer representatives, and distributors, an online survey with lighting and electrical contractors, follow-up phone interviews with a subset of contractor survey respondents, and an online survey with building owners.
Benefits
The efforts of the LLLC initiative, a program under Minnesota’s Efficient Technology Accelerator (ETA)*, build demand for LLLC technology by addressing adoption barriers through local market engagement, education, and partnerships.
Project Summary
Luminaire-Level Lighting Controls (LLLC) are an efficient lighting controls technology that provides energy savings, operational advantages, and building system integration opportunities for commercial building applications. In efforts to move Minnesota to adopt more LLLC systems, the LLLC Initiative was launched in 2023 as a program under Minnesota’s Efficient Technology Accelerator (ETA). Through market engagement, the initiative strives to advance the adoption of LLLCs to bring lasting change in the lighting market and make LLLC systems standard practice for commercial building applications in Minnesota.
The ETA team conducts periodic market research to learn more about the current market and track trends over time. ETA undertook several primary data collection efforts in 2025 and early 2026 to gather up-to-date information about LLLC awareness, adoption, benefits, and barriers in Minnesota. The research was also designed to inform ETA’s assessment of the initiative’s Market Progress Indicators, the metrics used to monitor market transformation progress over time.