AI Empowers Green Energy Efficiency — Yangtze River Delta Lighting Forum Explores Urban Transformation Pathways
On November 28, the 2025 Yangtze River Delta Lighting Technology Forum & Shanghai Lighting Forum, jointly organized by the Shanghai Illuminating Engineering Society together with the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui Illuminating Engineering Societies, was successfully held.
With the theme “Illuminating Dual-Carbon Goals, Lighting an Intelligent Future,” the forum brought together over 300 representatives from government departments, universities and research institutions, lighting enterprises, and design sectors across Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui. Together, they explored clear development pathways for promoting low-carbon and intelligent transformation within the Yangtze River Delta lighting industry.
At the forum, numerous experts, scholars, and leading enterprises engaged in in-depth discussions on topics such as technological innovation and standard development. In particular, regarding green transformation, industry representatives explained through practical application cases how to shift from “functional lighting” to “value lighting,” empowering cities in their green and low-carbon development.
For example, AI ultra-efficient lighting retrofits—already implemented in more than 400 projects nationwide—capture real-time movements of people and vehicles, automatically generate predictive models, and achieve precise intelligent dimming. These solutions have been applied in large commercial complexes, industrial parks, schools, factories, and other scenarios, saving over 100 million RMB in electricity costs cumulatively.
Energy-saving lighting is moving toward a deep integration of intelligence, greening, and digitalization, becoming a key pathway in achieving the “dual-carbon” goals with mature technology, quick results, and enormous potential. By directly reducing energy consumption, it lowers carbon emissions, and as a fundamental node of smart cities, it has evolved from simple equipment replacement to a core component of refined urban energy management.
In addition, the forum also featured exchanges on key industry topics such as public light-and-shadow art, standardized development of urban smart lighting, and the revolutionary application of AIGC in lighting design. The event helped build industry consensus and contribute collective wisdom to the development of new productive forces and low-carbon transformation.
