How Your Business Can Benefit from our maintenance & retrofit programs –

While manufacturers and lighting retrofit installers like Lane Valente can give you a detailed computer model on what your potential energy savings could be, it is also important to understand the basic principles of a lighting retrofit and what solution would be right for your business.

What is a lighting retrofit?

A lighting retrofit is the practice of replacing components in the system with counterparts that make it use energy more efficiently. A lighting upgrade is any strategy that reduces the system’s energy use. Energy savings are realized over time that can be significant enough to not only pay for the new equipment, but produce a return on the investment.

Understanding Energy Consumption

Utilities bill their customers in a variety of ways, including an energy use charge, demand charge, power factor charge, fuel adjustment charge and other charges. What is energy consumption?

Energy Consumption (kWh) = Input Watts (kW) x Time (hours operated in a given year)

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To reduce energy consumption, therefore, we can either reduce the input wattage or reduce the hours of operation. Input wattage can be reduced by replacing lamps and ballasts with more-energy-efficient counterparts or outright removal of lamps and ballasts. The hours of operation can be reduced using sophisticated controls and other methods.