The Lighting Industry Association endorses the Blueprint for Electrification

In June 2025, the Lighting Industry Association (LIA) gave its support to ECA’s Blueprint for Electrification report describing it as a timely and essential call to action.

As the UK transitions to a clean power future, we must look beyond energy generation and address the systems, skills, and supply chains that underpin delivery. Lighting may not generate electricity, but it remains one of the most powerful tools to reduce demand.

Responsible for nearly 15% of global electricity consumption, lighting, when upgraded to high-efficacy LEDs and intelligent controls, offers immediate and proven reductions in energy use. As heat pumps and EVs increase grid load, efficient lighting helps create capacity by cutting wasted power.

The Blueprint rightly identifies the risks of a fragmented approach to electrification. In lighting, as in many other electrotechnical product categories, regulation and product assurance are already well established through dedicated safety, environmental, and technical standards. Lighting sits outside the Construction Products Regulation because it is already governed by comprehensive, sector-specific legislation. As such, wider electrification strategies should recognise this existing framework, ensuring alignment without duplication, so innovation and compliance can thrive.

The Blueprint also emphasises the need for a skilled and trusted workforce. At The LIA, we’re investing in just that. Our Lighting Profession Map defines competencies across roles and career stages to guide training and development. Our ICEL Competency Scheme sets clear benchmarks for emergency lighting, from product design through to system design. And every LIA member undergoes rigorous quality audits before receiving the LIA badge, with ongoing annual reviews to ensure high standards are maintained.

The energy transition will only succeed if every part of the built environment plays its role. Lighting is ready.

We welcome the Blueprint as a guide for coordinated policy and investment, and we’re proud to support its delivery through the lens of the lighting sector.

The Electrical Contractors Association (ECA) published its "Blueprint for Electrification: Delivering the UK’s Transition to Clean Power" was published on 29 April 2025. The findings in the Blueprint for Electrification showed that almost a quarter (24%) of UK adults said they would trust a qualified electrician more than any other source – including authorities – to advise on which clean technologies to choose.

• There is particularly high trust amongst the youngest respondents (18-24: 35%).
• It is strongest in the East Midlands (28%) and Northern Ireland (30%).
• Government agencies, such as Ofgem, are the second-most trusted at 18%, with the strongest trust among slightly older respondents (45-54: 21%) and social grade ABC1 (20%).

The report runs through the issues heading by heading and recommendation by recommendation: The value of electricians, the consumer perspective and why an acceleration to electrification is needed. How electrification can be carried out, from policy clarity and direction to workforce capacity and skills. From supply chain changes to supportive regulation, electricity pricing, planning and grid connections. As well as the importance of supporting a fairer business environment, helping build consumer confidence and better understanding of the issues for consumers.

To turn ambition into action ECA’s Blueprint outlines ten recommendations for the UK government, calling for electricians to be placed at the heart of net zero strategies to accelerate electrification in homes, businesses, and communities. The ten recommendations. For further information see article ECA Blueprint for Electrification.

This article appears on the ECA news and blog site as "Why The Lighting Industry Association Endorses the Blueprint for Electrification" dated 17 June, 2025, as well as references to "Electricians revealed as UK’s most trusted source for green home advice, new ECA report finds" as well as the ECA report 'Blueprint for Electrification: Delivering the UK’s Transition to Clean Power" dated 29 April, 2025.

--ECA

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