Energy Conservation: Ten Reasons Why Your Business Needs LED Lighting
Electrical EFFICIENCY: TEN REASONS WHY YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS LED LIGHTING Electrical efficiency, carbon emissions, and cost cutting are the buzz words that have been dominating businesses in recent years. With industry at its most competitive in a generation and the pace of economic recovery moving sluggishly at best, many businesses are under the increasing pressure to battle against increasing cost and honor their carbon reduction commitments while struggling to remain financially viable at the same time. Businesses are increasingly switching to the idea of replacing their existing compact fluorescent (CFL) and halogen lighting systems with the latest LED sustainable lighting technology in a bid to save thousands of dollars each year in wasted electrical cost and significantly reduce their carbon emissions. However, there still remains an element of skepticism among some business owners as to the benefits to be gained in switching from halogens and CFLs to LEDs. To counter any concerns here is a top ten list of major advantages that LED lighting can have on any businesses bottom line and carbon reduction targets: 1. LEDs offer average savings of 50-80% in energy cost. 2. LEDs last more than five times longer than their CFL alternatives – with a rated life span of 50,000 hours compared with 8,000 hours for traditional tubes and more than 25 times longer than halogens. 3. LED technology has come of age and is now delivering the type of brightness, light output, and savings required from all general white lighting. 4. Because of their overall low energy consumption, LEDs can help your business reduce your CO2 emissions by around 10% each year. 5. Return on investment is 30-50% on a lease to own program with no money out of pocket up front required. 6. At 40 to 75 lm/W LED lights produce more light per watt than most incandescent and halogen bulbs. 7. Annual maintenance cost savings of between 70 and 90% can be achieved with LED lights. 8. LEDs are extremely user- friendly, being almost wholly recyclable, dimmable, and emitting no UV or IR rays. 9. Unlike traditional toxic CFLs, LEDs do not contain mercury. 10. Shock resistant: being made of glass, incandescent, halogen, and traditional CFLs are very fragile whereas LEDs are made with solid state components that are incredibly durable and difficult to break. With thousands of businesses facing escalating business cost this year and small firms loosing over a billion dollars a year as a consequence of inefficient energy control, LED lighting technology is fast becoming a prime consideration for organizations of any size which are determined to reduce their electrical consumption while saving much needed funds. “Reduce electrical cost by 60% by installing mercury free, energy efficient LED Lighting”!
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