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Dec.1,2009
Cut Down Energy Costs With Led Retrofit Technology
If your dreamscape is being haunted by daily visions of mounting electricity bills, it is high time you either rob a bank to pay the huge energy costs or simply choose to change your light bulbs!
Replacing ordinary lighting with Energy Efficient retrofits technology is the most straight-forward task anyone can do to reduce their energy bills. Retrofitting buildings is not a new technology anymore and its recent foray into the home lighting arena has made the concept more efficient and affordable to homeowners from all cross-sections of the society.
When it comes to saving energy with home lighting,LEDs are definitely, the best option. These high-powered light-emitting diodes produce more light per watt for up to 100,000 hours under normal use and last longer than traditional bulbs too. Did we mention that LEDs use just 5.8 watts of power, compared to the 60 watts used up for an equally bright incandescent bulb? Well, LEDs also consume less than 9 percent of the energy consumed by common bulbs and less than 30 percent of that consumed by fluorescent lights.
Once considered useful only for flashlights, traffic lights, laptop computers and giant video billboards, LEDs are now revered as the reigning royalty in home lighting retrofits technology. Providing homes with energy efficient lightingis the least expensive way to cut energy costs to phenomenal levels.
It takes less than 60 minutes to convert all existing fluorescent fixtures in a home into low-maintenance, high-efficiency LED lighting. Though it is not mandatory to replace all incandescent bulbs at a single go, there is no harm in doing so provided the initial one-time cost of LED lighting doesn’t burn a hole in your wallet.
As a general rule of the thumb, choose warmer LED lighting systems for indoors and whiter lights for outdoors. A color temperature of 2500-4000 Kelvin is perfect for the interiors while bulbs with color temperatures of 5000-7000 Kelvin render high visibility outside your home. Switch to LEDs for rooms that are over-heated by a dozen ordinary flood lights. LEDs give off very less heat and thereby help you in cutting down the costs of your air-conditioning,
A guaranteed reduction in energy bills is the first and foremost benefit of retrofitting a home with energy efficient lighting. A/C loads are reduced by 1 kilowatt for every 3 kilowatts of lighting energy saved ($150-200 per ton of A/C saved with LED cool technology). This is especially true if the lighting retrofit program is being done by reputable and licensed companies in the energy smart industry who offer a wide range of innovative home lighting solutions at guaranteed energy cost savings and unbelievable positive cash flows. These companies specialize in retrofits technology and encourage home owners to upgrade their existing facilities with state-of-the-art energy-efficient lighting with no money paid up-front.
With the huge Energy Savings that is now possible through LEDs, homes, offices and other complexes are doing everything they can to strengthen the trend towards retrofits technology. We can rest assured that every step we take towards resuscitating our planet back to life, effectively cuts down on our energy expenditure as well.
About the Author
Energy Smart Industry brings Led Retrofit program with no out of pocket expense. Energy Smart Industry’s Green Lease Management Program (GLMP) is a unique system designed for energy efficient lighting for your building.
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