Many factories and warehouses today are utilizing old technology lighting in order to illuminate the warehouse or work environment. Factories are primarily using HID Lighting, which consumes 460 watts of energy per fixture. Example: A factory using 100 fixtures that are on 24/7 will spend $22,314.00 in electrical charges per year. By removing the HID fixtures and replacing them 1 for 1 with a fluorescent high bay the company would save $11,448.00 per year in electrical charges, typically with a payback from 12-24 months.

Budget Lighting’s main goal is to reduce electrical demand while increasing ambient light levels. Demand is the maximum amount of energy that a company requires to run their equipment/ machines/lighting/air conditioning etc. By reducing demand the kilowatt-hour charges are significantly reduced saving energy and money!

By reducing demand, the environmental impacts will be pollution reduction and natural resource savings. These projects have cut the production of harmful emissions and reduced the amount of natural resources used in the production of the electricity saves. According to the Environmental Protection Agency each kilowatt-hour usage of lighting translates to the production of approximately 1.6 pounds of carbon dioxide, 5.3 grams of sulfur dioxide and 2.8 grams of nitrous oxide. Lighting retrofit projects completed by BLI within the last 3 years total 59,746,704 kwh’s saved, and 6820.40 kilowatts saved.

Pollution reduction:

Global Warming (Carbon Dioxide, CO2) 95,594,726 lbs
Acid Rain (Sulfur Dioxide, SO2) 7,169,604 lbs
Smog (Nitrous Oxide, NOx) 3,584,802 lbs

Natural Resource Savings:
Coal 561,619,018 lbs
Oil 45,407,495 gallons
Natural Gas 5,974,670,400 cu. Ft

Many utility companies listed offer rebates to the customer to entice them to retrofit to Energy Saving Lighting. The rebates range from $200.00 per kw reduced to $400.00 per kw reduced. With this additional incentive, rebates to retrofit from the HID 400 watt fixture to a fluorescent high bay drawing 224 watts can be as high as $95.00. Most companies offer a flat $75.00 per fixture to the end user.

Each Project has different fixture spacing, heights and foot-candle requirements. If the factories have air conditioning, there will be additional energy saved, because the arc tube of the metal halide fixture (HID) can be as high as 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. The fluorescent high bay fixture lamps run at 95 degrees Fahrenheit with this temperature reduction, the energy can be reduced by approximately 1 ton per 2200 watts of energy saved.

With this ground breaking fixture technology, factories are enjoying cooler summers with less energy used. Other benefits of the fluorescent lighting system are:

50-100% Increased light levels
95% maintained light output over the life
Up to 30,000-hour average lamp life
Instant on, instant restrike
No flicker, ballast operates on high frequency
Sound Rating A, no hum or buzz, silent operation
Excellent color 88CRI with No color shift
Very wide, even light distribution
Natural Color and High color rendering, A quality light source

Jim Coykendall is President of Budget Lighting, Inc. BLI Lighting Specialists owns the business product and information site BudgetLighting.com http://www.budgetlighting.com

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