Lights Out for Expanded Lighting Energy Efficiency?
The administration is seeking to undo an Obama-era regulation that applies to specialty lightbulbs, leaving it out of the upcoming 2020 federal efficiency standards. These types of bulbs include the decorative globe-like bulbs in bathroom fixtures, reflectors in recessed lighting, and more.
Coolers/Freezers and Energy Efficiency 101: Lighting Impact on Refrigerated Load Savings
While upgrading lighting fixtures to more efficient LEDs is a practice that in-and-of-itself reduces electrical usage, many are not aware that this measure also bears an indirect effect on refrigerated load savings.
Coolers/Freezers and Energy Efficiency 101: The Definitive Lighting Guide
The lighting solutions we will evaluate are: fluorescent, metal halide, high-pressure sodium, and LED. LED solutions may seem like costly investments upfront but their long-term cost of ownership and efficiency improvements over the other fixtures may actually surprise some people.
4 Ways LED Lighting Upgrades Increase Grocery Revenue
Most reach-in coolers have old, worn out and outdated fluorescent lights that use a lot of energy. They even tend to look dull and outdated.
4 Do-It-Yourself Ways to Reduce Your Commercial Lighting Costs
We’ve previously examined a handful of DIY ways to reduce your commercial HVAC’s energy costs and today, we’ll do the same for lighting. If your commercial or industrial space doesn’t have refrigeration, then lighting will be your biggest energy-consuming mechanism.
Looking for Energy Savings? Look In to Retrofitting Your Refrigeration
Many refrigeration systems in the food retail environment comprise older equipment, and many businesses are unable to absorb the cost of replacing the equipment with newer, more expensive components. But there are options out there to retrofit the systems.