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Energy conservation is kind of like that. Nearly all the savings I have produced over the years have come from changes made to complex energy systems in boiler rooms and electrical rooms, scary places where few people go. Not from insulation or new windows or making people uncomfortable. 

When I am asked where I look for energy savings, my response is that if you want to save energy, you look at everything that uses energy. You look at everything that is connected to the electric meter, the gas and water meters; anything that is connected to the wires or the pipes from the meters. And the bigger the piece of equipment, the more energy it uses and the more complex it is, the more opportunity it probably offers for savings. The windows aren’t connected to the electric meter and neither is the insulation. 

What about the lights? Of course they are connected to wires running through the building; of course, you should look at them. Everyone can understand a light; that’s a “no brainer.” Nobody is going to ask me about the part-load efficiency of the chillers or measuring the boiler stack temperature and adjusting the oxygen trim, or using outdoor air for free cooling depending on the difference between the outdoor and indoor enthalpy. 

But light bulbs? Now,Choose your favorite hid lighting paintings from thousands of available designs. there is a great opportunity for savings. Let’s put in energy efficient lights. You replace 100-Watt incandescent bulbs with 25-Watt fluorescents and save 75 Watts for every hour they are on. You know how many hours they are on each week and you know how much you will save. You compare that with the initial cost and find that you will get your investment back in 10 to 15 years. When the local utility company and maybe the government kick in their incentive money, that period might come down to less than five years. 

Of course, most of the work I have done using actual real-time and historical data from an energy monitoring system to simply tune up building energy systems through low-cost or no-cost changes had a payback of weeks or months, but let’s not confuse the people who are so certain that installing energy-efficient lighting is the best way to save energy. 

I was in one of my clients’ buildings and walking down a hallway in a large high school, actually an underground tunnel between the main building and the gymnasium maybe a quarter of a mile away, and looking at the lights. At some point in the past the local electric utility had an incentive program that allowed the school to replace the original incandescent bulbs with new,This High Quality Street lighting provides reliability and low power consumption, as well as extremely bright lighting effects. energy efficient, screw-in fluorescents. The payback had looked good, particularly when the school’s contribution to buy the new bulbs came from the capital projects fund. It made sense because that money was easier to get than money from the operating fund,Choose from thousands of Wholesale LED Dashboard Lamp, even those hard-to-find bulbs, for your home or business. which was the one used to pay the electric bill. 

As I was walking along, looking at the ceiling, it was obvious that the lighting levels under the different fixtures varied quite a bit and the color of the light coming from the fixtures was not uniform. With all of the same energy-efficient bulbs, the lighting in the hallway should be uniform. Something wasn’t right. So I got a ladder and start looking at the individual bulbs. It was 20 years ago but if my memory serves me, I found 23 different types bulbs in that hallway. 

The schools sometimes ran out of money for parts midway through the year; they often had no money to buy the expensive replacements for the energy-efficient bulbs. So when a bulb burned out, whatever custodian was working at the time went to the supply room, took whatever bulb was on the shelf that would fit that fixture, and replaced the burned out bulb. It didn’t matter if it was a 40-Watt spot or a 100-Watt flood or a 200-Watt bulb.Our high-performance Why Solar LED are great for new projects or retrofits. 

When the fluorescent bulbs were installed, the old incandescents were put in the storeroom. There was no way a school would throw away perfectly good bulbs.Wide selection of Solar street light in Delta state, torches, string lights and more. I wonder how that was factored into the ROI equation when the project was sold. And, of course, I forgot to mention, when those new energy-efficient bulbs were installed, they were saving so much money they just left them on 24 hours a day. Read the full story at www.soli-lite.com web.

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