Saving Dollars Quickly with Lighting

clipped from blog.actioneco.org Do you have a desk lamp in your office? You wouldn’t know it to look at it, but that simple light source symbolizes an opportunity for immediate facilities-wide operational improvement. Lighting retrofits offer immediate savings on electric utility bills. They can be relatively inexpensive, depending on the extent of the changes you make. Low investment keeps the payback period short, making this option attractive to those plants wishing to quickly improve the bottom line. And some other great news: upgrading to energy-efficient lighting can mean up to a $0.60 per square foot tax deduction for building owners! Here is the first quick step to getting started: ask your facilities team to consider replacing any incandescent lighting with compact fluorescent lamps. As an example of the savings, a 13-watt compact fluorescent lamp produces approximately the same lumens of light as an individual 60-watt incandescent lamp.