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LED Lights for Oil and Gas Operations

Three ways LED lighting solves safety concerns for shale gas operations

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LED lighting can improve shale gas operations by providing better illumination for routine maintenance, improve overall visibility, and reduce exposure to dangerous materials.

Upgrading antiquated lighting to safe, modern high-efficiency industrial LED lighting is one of the most affordable, effective and responsible safety strategies for any shale gas company. And, because the energy and cost savings continue to add up year after year, LED is a wise investment that will continue to pay dividends — both safety and financial — for years to come.

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Raising the Sustainability Bar

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Following an assessment of the light bulbs used in their restaurants, The Cheesecake Factory completed a re-lamp in each restaurant by installing low wattage bulbs. This reduces their kilowatt usage by 2% to 3% each year based on a standard 10,000 square foot restaurant. In addition, they are upgrading their lighting to more energy efficient products as they become available, and are currently testing new LED lighting to replace neon lights, which are currently being used in certain areas of their restaurants.

Read the full report:   http://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/corporate-social-responsibility/sustainability/resources/#

Investing in Their Future: Portland’s Purchase and Conversion of an LED Street Lighting System

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The City of Portland, Oregon is midway through the process of converting its street lighting system from the previous generation high-pressure sodium (HPS) to modern light-emitting diode (LED) technology. In getting to this point, the City purchased a large portion of its street lighting system and encountered a range of issues among the stakeholders, some of which were expected and some not. As these issues may be more or less common to other municipalities pursuing street lighting purchases and conversions, this paper identifies some of the challenges encountered and details of how they were addressed to help inform and facilitate future lighting transitions elsewhere. Preliminary discussion of the results and lessons learned are also included.

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Prestigious Princeton Sees the LED Light

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One of America’s most prestigious universities is in the middle of an ambitious LED replacement program – more than 100,000 fixtures.  Princeton University is implementing many different energy-mitigation projects on campus, and lighting was determined to be a strategy with one of the best overall paybacks. The university’s Energy Group is funding the program, which represents the first significant lighting upgrade at Princeton in more than 20 years.

Read the full article:   http://www.facilitiesnet.com/lighting/article/Princeton-University-Lighting-Program-Embraces-LEDs–16610

Walmart saves over 40% compared to traditional pulse-start metal halides

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This report documents the first full parking lot installation of light-emitting diode (LED) products for Walmart, which was done at a Walmart Supercenter in Leavenworth, Kansas. For years, Walmart has explored alternatives to conventional (metal halide [MH] or high-pressure sodium) lighting technologies in its parking lots as a way to save energy, improve the environmental aspects of operation, and potentially reduce maintenance costs. However, the company has approached LED luminaires cautiously pending additional research and analysis.

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) formed the Retailer Energy Alliance (REA), which brings together similar types of end users to exchange information and leverage buying capacity in order to help expedite market adoption of energy efficient technologies and design practices.1 The REA encompasses several different building system subcommittees (e.g., electrical, mechanical, renewable power). A working group was formed as part of the Lighting & Electrical Subcommittee, of which Walmart is an active participant, to develop an LED parking lot specification. Version 1.2 of the LED parking lot specification was completed in June 2009 and was subsequently expanded to encompass other energy alliances across the broader Commercial Building Energy Alliance (CBEA) (EERE 2011).

With this milestone completed, Walmart agreed to install LEDs across an entire site and in the process “test drive” the CBEA specification

Read the full report:   https://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/ssl/gateway_walmart.pdf

Baystate Health – Bending the Cost Curve

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Baystate Health’s (Baystate) ambition is for the health system to become the leader in helping create the most energy efficient, safe and effectively managed buildings in the health care industry.

Baystate performed initial benchmarking and saw numerous opportunities to improve including redoing controls, replacing boilers and pumps, retrocommissioning, lighting upgrades, and mechanical upgrades. For example, in the Operating Rooms (OR), they worked to improve the quality of air and partnered with the OR staff to show them the importance of this initiative. Not only were they able to improve communications between Facilities and Operating Room staff, but reduce the amount of energy spent as well.

Read the full report:   http://www.healthierhospitals.org/sites/default/files/IMCE/baystate_health.pdf

 

Brighten and Tighten: VW dealership upgrades lights and looks

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“It’s hard for a car dealership to be green,” says General Manager Jay Frank at Larry H. Miller Volkswagen in Lakewood, Colorado. “We keep the lights on inside and out almost all of the time but we knew we could be smarter about our energy use.” Frank had previously chosen compact fluorescent bulbs in his service lounge hoping to conserve energy but found the bulbs came with problems. He wasn’t happy with the light they emitted and says they burned out too often, so he was constantly replacing them, spending money he was trying to save.

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