The University of Delaware recently announced the creation of the Revolving Energy Efficiency Fund to support energy efficiency projects across the campus. The goal is to reduce the University’s carbon emissions and operating costs. Potential projects will be identified by the Facilities and Auxiliary Services engineering staff, who will … [continued]
The DOE Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium, in collaboration with the Clinton Climate Initiative, recently launched a free cost-benefit analysis tool for municipalities, utilities, and other organizations as a method for analyzing the cost and return from lighting efficiency projects. The model will help municipalities better understand all of the … [continued]
Just in time for the 2012 Olympic Games, GE and London’s City Hall will retrofit the lighting on Tower Bridge. The state-of-the-art, energy-efficient lighting system will have energy savings of 40-45% in energy savings over the current artistic lighting fixtures. The installation will utilize GE’s Tetra Contour Cable lighting, an … [continued]
US Foods recently announced it will save an additional 2 million kilowatt hours (kWh) by retrofitting lighting throughout the organization. Since 2007, the company has decreased overall energy use by approximately 8% (34 million kWh) through lighting retrofits alone. “We’re exploring many more opportunities for energy savings throughout the company,” … [continued]
A recent Wall Street Journal article showed that lower maintenance costs are driving companies like Walmart, GNC, and Caesars Entertainment to retrofit their specialized lighting fixtures to LEDs. Due to the long life span of LED’s, the maintenance cost for the fixture is dramatically decreased, putting the total cost savings … [continued]
“LEDs represent perhaps the most significant breakthrough of the last 130 years in lighting technology.” – Eric Bloom Pike Research forecasts LED lighting will capture 52% of the Commercial Building Market by 2021 as the price of light-emitting diodes continues to decline. Furthermore, they expect the lighting industry to see … [continued]
In a move to help curb costs and expand sustainability efforts, the city of Stamford Connecticut is switching to energy-efficient LED streetlights. The move will save the municipality more than $146,000 annually. To help jump-start the initiative, the city was awarded an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, an … [continued]
When it comes to lighting our homes, we are encouraged to switch outdated incandescent bulbs to more energy efficient alternatives. And, most often, these alternatives are LED and compact florescent lights (CFL).
After deciding that LED-based solid-state lighting (SSL) was not a good match for extreme desert temperatures, the city of Tempe, Arizona has decided to install 1,000 induction street lights to launch phase one of a street-light-retrofit initiative.
A recent survey conducted by the Institute For Building Efficiency showed that while interest in energy efficiency is increasing among building owners, energy cost savings remain the driving factor behind organizational energy efficiency decisions.
The Energy Efficiency indicator is an annual survey of global executives and building owners responsible for energy management and investment decisions in commercial and public-sector buildings. The 2011 survey included almost 4,000 respondents across North America, Europe, India, China, Australia, Brazil and South Africa.
