Energy savings

Energy and CO2 Savings Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have been with us for almost 50 years now, but is has only been in the last few years that they have become a significant lighting source. Traditionally. the bulkhead type of lighting fittings used in this sector would employ compact fluorescent lamps as the light source. A typical fitting would consume around 30W of electricity per hour and the lamp would have a useful life of about 10,000 hours. By comparison, an LED array in the same type of fitting, giving the same illumination levels, would consume around 20W per hour and have a useful life of 50,000 hours. This equates to a 33% saving in energy (and a resultant reduction in Carbon Dioxide emissions) and a 5 times increase in the lamp life resulting in reduced maintenance charges.

LED lamps will operate through a wide range of temperatures and are not affected by vibration. LED lamps switch on instantly there is no warm-up period and are not affected by being switched on and off multiple times each day.

Savings calculator

The graph to the left shows a typical evaluation of a conventional fluorescent fitting when compared with one of our LED fittings.