The big Sainsbury's LED lighting rollout

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Sainsbury's has begun a massive nationwide rollout of LED lighting in hundreds of shops. The supermarket chain aims to eventually make all its stores 100% LED, reducing its energy bill for lighting by more than half. Lux reports exclusively on the project and meets the team behind it.


Sainsbury’s was an early adopter of LED lighting.
The supermarket giant has been looking into LED technology for about seven years, first for refrigerator lighting, and later feature lighting and car parks. Over time, as the technology got more powerful, it spread to more applications.
Last year marked a milestone. Sainsbury’s opened the doors of its first all-LED store – a brand new hypermarket in Leek, Staffordshire, which consumes about 60 per cent less energy for lighting than comparable stores (with the same nice even illumination) thanks the GE ‘Blade’ fitting. But that was just one shop.
Now, the use of high-tech low-energy lighting at Sainsbury’s is no longer the exception, it is the norm. As of this year, all new lighting is LED by default.
The retailer’s sustainability boss Paul Crewe says energy-efficient lighting is ‘one of the most important technologies that we have introduced over the last three years’.
All the major supermarkets have been dabbling in LED lighting technology, but the scale of the Sainsbury’s rollout – and the sheer amount of attention that the retailer pays to lighting – positions it in front of its rivals.


Simon Waldron, who joined Sainsbury’s last year as electrical engineering manager, says: ‘My role is to make it 100 per cent LED. But the real challenge is to go LED while maintaining look and feel. Customers are used to walking into a Sainsbury’s store and recognising the brand, and a change in lighting is a big visual element that could impact that.’
The retailer has already built five new stores that are 100 per cent LED, and retrofitted LEDs into more than 100 more. By the end of the year a total of 100,000 LED fittings will have been installed across the Sainsbury’s estate, reducing electrical load by 56 per cent (so far). The new lights are expected to pay for themselves in less than five years.
As a result of the project, Sainsbury’s has made its way on to the Lux Awards shortlist in three categories: retail lighting, recycling, and client of the year.
The company’s lighting team has picked LED equipment from a range of manufacturers to come up with systems for new stores, old stores, big ones, little ones and everything in between. The rollout covers not just sales floors but also cafes, car parks, petrol stations, offices, back-of-house storage areas and distribution centres.

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