SAVE ENERGY AND GO GREEN!
If you use electricity, we can save astounding amounts of money on your Xcel bill with a VERY short payback, generally between 1 and 2 years, and after that, you will be making a profit on your energy bill.
Facts about lighting and energy consumption:
- In most buildings, lighting accounts for 20% to 50% of the energy consumed.
- Over-illumination, and especially incorrect light color affect health:
-Headache-Fatigue-Medically defined stress-Increases in anxiety- Switching from magnetic ballasts to electronic ballasts reduces heat, which will lower air conditioning costs.
How to reduce lighting costs:
- Retrofit older inefficient fixtures with new, efficient components.
- Perform an analysis of current lighting to determine the correct color spectrum and amount of lighting required
- Occupancy sensors.
- Timers.
- A/B switching: when different switches turn on different numbers of lamps. (This has been shown to increase worker productivity because the workers get to choose their own light settings).
- Consistent maintenance of lighting to reduce wasted energy.
- Daylight harvesting. There are ballasts that dim the lamp when the sun is brighter outside.
- Research new technologies that reduce energy consumption.
Energy Efficient Lighting Retrofits
