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Food City Lighting Refit to Save $337,000 a Year

August 16, 2012August 30, 2012 by Leon Walker

Grocery chain Food City should save $337,000 a year in lighting and maintenance costs following the installation of GE Lighting products in its coolers, GE has said. The chain installed GE Lighting’s Immersion RV40 LED lighting in coolers across 89 stores in Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. GE expects the company ... Read more »

Iowa Cold Storage Taps SmartWatt for Retrofit

August 8, 2012August 30, 2012 by Leon Walker

Iowa Cold Storage, a Midwest-based provider of temperature-controlled warehousing, logistics, and transportation for food products, is saving more than $30,000 per year in total lighting costs following a lighting retrofit. SmartWatt Energy’s Chicago office performed a construction-grade energy audit of the facility, and then created an action plan to replace ... Read more »

Lutron Lights Empire State Building, Cutting Payback Time in Half

July 19, 2012July 19, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Lutron Electronics will provide a lighting control system for the Empire State Building’s tenant spaces, expected to save the iconic New York landmark as much as 65 percent in lighting-energy costs. The Lutron system, developed with Empire State Building property manager Jones Lang LaSalle, includes wireless components, occupancy/vacancy sensors that ... Read more »

Smithsonian Recovers LED Costs in 16 Months

July 10, 2012July 10, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

The Smithsonian American Art Museum recovered the higher initial cost of its LED retrofit project in 16 months of operation through energy savings, according to a final report evaluating the solid-state-lighting demonstration. The US Department of Energy’s Gateway Solid-State Lighting Technology Demonstration Program replaced halogen and incandescent lighting at several galleries ... Read more »

DOE Study Confirms LEDs Most ‘Environmentally Friendly’ Lighting

July 3, 2012July 3, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

LED lamps have a slight environmental edge over compact fluorescent lamps and a significantly lower environmental impact than incandescent lighting over the lifetime of the products, according to a Department of Energy report. The report, LED Manufacturing and Performance, is the second part of a DOE project to assess the ... Read more »

OC Transpo Garage LED Retrofit Cuts Costs 43%

June 6, 2012June 6, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

OC Transpo, the transit service provider for Ottawa and Carleton, Canada, has cut its lighting costs by 43 percent at its St. Laurent garage, following an LED retrofit by Energy Ottawa. The project included replacing inefficient light fixtures and installing sensors that can turn off some lighting when the garage ... Read more »

Contract Wins: Siemens and Florida A&M, Cambridge and General Mills, Rosebud Mining and WSP

June 4, 2012June 4, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Florida A&M University (pictured) has awarded Siemens a $12.2 million contract expected to save the university about $1.2 million in equivalent guaranteed annual energy savings. The 18-month project, which began in May, includes a partially decentralized steam plant heating system, a solar-thermal heating system for the swimming pool, building automation ... Read more »

Memorial Sloan-Kettering, United Stationers LED Retrofits Cut Costs by 57%, 91%

April 27, 2012April 30, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Sacramento, Calif.’s United Stationers have recently completed lighting retrofits. At Sloan-Kettering, LED lighting manufacturer Seesmart Technologies replaced about 700 fixtures, switching out fluorescent T8s and T12s in the facility’s parking garage with Seesmart T8s. This will reduce the hospital’s energy cost by almost ... Read more »

DC-Powered LED Lighting Could Lower Electricity Bills, Study Says

April 26, 2012April 26, 2012 by Leon Walker

A direct current electrical power system may be the most economic way to power lights in commercial buildings, according to a paper by Carnegie Mellon University researchers. For more than a century, electric power has been produced and distributed using alternating current technology. But the DC system, pioneered by Thomas ... Read more »

Daintree Expands Wireless Light Fixture Adapter Range

April 18, 2012 by Leon Walker

Wireless lighting controls supplier Daintree Networks has expanded its line of its wireless adapters for commercial and industrial buildings. Daintree says that the line’s expansion makes it the most comprehensive on the market in terms of fixture type, control options and budgets. Products include: WA100 – offers on, off and ... Read more »

Bridgelux Expands Decor Ultra-high Color Rendering LED Array Series

April 3, 2012April 2, 2012 by Jennifer Hermes

Bridgelux Inc. has expanded its Decor line of ultra-high color rendering index (CRI) LED arrays. The Decor 97 CRI product series now offers increased efficiency as well as a broader range of light sources, from 500 to 5000 operational lumens in three color temperatures (2700, 3000 and 3500K), the company ... Read more »

Canberra LED Retrofit Predicted to Save $15,000 a Year

April 3, 2012April 3, 2012 by Leon Walker

Nuclear measurements company Canberra has completed a lighting retrofit at its in Meriden, Conn., facility using Noribachi Illumination LED products expected to save 63,000 kWh and $15,000 a year, Noribachi said. The Canberra loading area originally used a combination of eight 400W high bay lights and eight flood lamps. By ... Read more »

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