The digital economy assumes an increase in the role and importance of the lighting engineering science in the industrial countries. Nowadays, the development of a country is largely characterized by its “light supply” with minimum energy consumption. In modern Western Europe, for example, it is impossible to separate climate protection policies from energy policy. In the countries of the Middle East, there is a rapid development of the construction industry as many residential and public buildings are being built, and energy consumption issues are acute. The article studies the influence of the light climate of Russia and the countries of the Middle East on the development of construction lighting equipment, which enables to optimize energy consumption, create comfortable working and leisure conditions. 1. Boos, George Valentinovich. Lighting engineering values and units [Text]: a manual in the course “Fundamentals of light engineering” for students majoring in “Electron and nanoelectronics” / G.V. Boos, A.A. Grigoriev, S.M. Lebedkova; Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Fed­eration, National Research University “MPEI”. Moscow: Izd­vo MPEI, 2018, 63 p.
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