the invention relates to the creation of lighting programs or scenes with a lighting system taking energy consumption into account . an embodiment of the invention provides a lighting system comprising — a first database containing data of the luminairies of the lighting system , — a second database containing information for lighting presets of the luminairies of the lighting system for a lighting scene to be created , and — a calculation module being adapted to calculate the energy consumption of the lighting system based on a lighting scene to be created depending on data retrieved from the first and the second database .