"Lighting accounts for 37 percent of an average commercial building's utility bill, which is the largest cost category, followed by the buildings heating and cooling systems. Oftentimes the lowest hanging fruit on your 'green' tree today is changing your current inefficient lighting. A T8 is 22 percent more efficient than a comparable T12 and a similar T5 achieves 51 percent added economy. They produce the same light output while consuming less power. It is actually possible to replace and upgrade fixtures with fewer lamps per unit and still maintain or even improve on current lighting levels…there are also significant tax incentives currently available". Harrisburg Commercial Real Estate Review.
Lighting Retrofit. A recent offer from DCI, in partnership with Liberty Lighting, is a free cost-benefit analysis for lighting retrofit projects. Once you contact us, we will schedule an appointment to visit your building(s). We will walk the site, count the numbers and types of all fixtures, review your previous one year's energy bills and make some general recommendations. Once we have reviewed the project in detail, we will prepare a cost-benefit analysis and show you the R.O.I. Not only can a lighting retrofit project save your money (by taking advantage of local utility companies rebate plans), it can reduce your maintenance costs, decreasing the loads on HVAC, improve lumens in working areas and reduce the amount of pollution released into the environment. The average ROI for these projects has been 21-24 months!
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