Comments on: LED Lighting to Capture 52% of Commercial Building Market by 2021

By: Maintenance Costs Driving Retail Adoption of LEDs

Maintenance Costs Driving Retail Adoption of LEDs — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:20:35 +0000

[…] that energy savings for LEDs were not enough to offset the higher purchase price. In the future, as LED prices decrease, this will change. However, for now, it’s lower maintenance expenses that are allowing […]

By: Pearlandlighting.com

Pearlandlighting.com — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:54:00 +0000

That is pretty true. LED light bulbs are coming down in price just like many other things, remember the time a DVD player used to cost $800.00 when it first come out? I know it. Because I bought one. Nowadays, you can purchase it for under $80.00 each. When you think of it in the long run, LED light bulbs are a little pricy but it will save you a lot more of money in your electricity bill.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:44:00 +0000

About 11% of US residential electricity use is for lighting. If commercial usage is roughly the same we could be looking at a significant drop in power demand over the next few years as incandescent bulbs disappear and are replaced by more efficient LED and CFL lighting.

Efficient bulbs use about 12% as much power as an incandescent. Given that many of the LEDs for commercial use are going to be replacing tube florescents and halogens the savings won’t be as high as moving from incandescents, but the drop will still be significant.

Since a lot of commercial lighting is used during daytime hours we may see a drop in peak hour demand and a resultant decrease in utility bills. It’s filling peak demand that makes our electricity expensive.