Commercial Lighting Energy Saving Tips

The following summary represents the top five reasons to upgrade indoor and outdoor lighting with energy efficient luminaires :

Energy efficient lighting uses less electricity.
This is perhaps the most important benefit your clients will receive from energy efficient lighting. Rising fuel costs have had an effect on the cost of power, and reducing your clientʼs operating costs even by a marginal amount helps buffer them against the recession. Right now is a good time to take stock of all indoor and outdoor lighting luminaires and make a qualitative assessment of their long term value. If they can be replaced with more energy efficient equivalents, then savings on the light bill will pay for the fixtures in a few short years.

Energy efficient lighting minimizes replacement costs.
Luminaires eventually wear out because of thermal stress on the components. The less electricity a fixture uses, the less heat it generates. Reducing heat helps prolong the life of the bulb and minimize replacements. The money saved on luminaire replacement is yet another revenue stream that brings ROI on the equipment investment.

Energy efficient light fixtures are more environmentally friendly.
Incandescent lighting is notorious for producing C02 emissions through its inefficient management of power. It has been estimated that buildings with inefficient lighting systems contribute 40% of the world’s greenhouse gases. Replacing all of these luminaires with energy efficient equivalents would significantly impact the global environment in a positive way.

Energy efficient lighting is essential to LEED certification.
Companies are starting to take LEED certification very seriously. Power conservation is becoming a top priority for new building construction, and is much easier to accomplish when designing the building with LEED certification in mind. Companies in existing buildings, however, may be considerably more difficult due to poor ventilation and outdated wiring and power outlets. Energy efficient commercial lighting alone may not provide enough total points for these facilities to earn an immediate certification, but the money saved on subsequent power bills can contribute funds toward any necessary future remodeling.

Energy efficient lighting helps avoid conflict with lighting regulatory codes.
In some areas of the nation, energy efficient lighting is required under regulatory codes as part of a more comprehensive community push toward sustainability. In other places such as California, state legislation has now stepped in to make power conservation a top priority.
While we have yet to see a standard for regulating energy efficient outdoor lights emerge on the Federal level, we have reason to believe one may be created in the near future with increasing public demand for a comprehensive, national energy policy.

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