LEDs are emerging as an energy efficient, convenient alternative to traditional lighting. LED lighting is a great first step towards increasing your commercial property’s energy efficiency, which will save you money while allowing your company to have a positive environmental impact. If you’re interested in the benefits of LED, consider these illuminating facts.

1. Install LED Lighting At Your Workplace

The first and most important step to reducing your energy consumption is to replace your current, outdated lighting with new energy efficient LED Lighting. With rising energy costs around the world, LED lights are a bargain for corporate offices, warehouses and manufacturing facilities. Compared to traditional incandescent bulbs or lamps, LEDs save about 70% of energy, resulting in substantial savings in the long term. In offices or workplaces where lighting is needed 24 hours a day, LED lights offer even greater benefits. Upgrading to LED Lighting will reduce your energy bill by tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars annually depending on your usage.

2. Equip Your LED Lights With Motion Sensors

Unlike HIDs which require a lot of time to bring the light to its desired intensity, LEDs will reach full light output in a fraction of a second. While this is handy in terms of not waiting to work, it also allows for another aspect.

Motion sensors can be attached to LED lights so that they can be used only when a certain part of the commercial building is in operation. This reduces energy consumption as they will not be on when they don’t need to be. This not only saves energy and money, it can also act as an extra security aspect to prevent accidents and crime.

3. Program Your LED Lighting

Motion sensors aren’t the only technological advancement by which LEDs can help save money. LED lighting is more programmable than the majority of other lighting options, particularly in a commercial setting. You can program them to turn on at certain times of the day, so that they turn areas on only when needed. You can have different program settings for different operations, without having people to turn individual controls manually.

Not only can you control turning LED lighting on and off, you can control the type of light output they create. For earlier in the day, you can have brighter white light and then let the light change as the day progresses. This can be controlled by light sensors, meaning the light bulbs themselves can gauge the amount of natural light and adjust the bulbs accordingly. No longer will lighting sources be wasting bright light unnecessarily.

4. Reduce Your Maintenance Costs

How often do you find yourself replacing light bulbs? An often overlooked but expensive operating cost is light bulb replacement. In areas like warehouses and manufacturing facilities, the light fixtures may require a scissor lift in order to change just one light bulb. These costs quickly add up, as well as the downtime required while the bulb is being replaced. LED Lights will last at least 10 years and in many cases up to 20 years.

The huge lifespan of LED light bulbs is one of their biggest advantages, which is made all the more impressive when compared to the life-cycles of other light bulbs.

• -Incandescent light bulbs – 1,000 hours
• -Halogen light bulb – 2,000 hours
• -Compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) – 15,000 hours
• -LED Lighting - 50,000+ Hours

The Safety Source provides turnkey energy efficient LED Lighting Retrofit projects and is a Trade Ally with DTE and Consumers Energy. We have retrofitted over 100 million square feet of industrial/commercial space across the US and Canada, while securing over $2 Million in rebates for our customers. Click Here For more information on how the Safety Source can help reduce your energy consumption.