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Here's how much money you can save by retrofitting your old fluorescent lights to high efficiency lighting (this assumes that you already have existing fluorescent fixtures installed, so that just the ballast and bulbs need to be switched):

If you keep your lights on roughly half the time, then for every standard 2 ft by 4 ft (four lamp) fluorescent fixture, you operate, your yearly electrical cost will be:

0.180 KiloWatts X 4,400 Hours X $0.08/KwHr = $64 per year

By switching to a 100% solid state ballast combined with high efficiency T8 lamps, (same or more light & much better quality lighting), then your yearly electrical cost will be:

0.100 KiloWatts X 4,400 Hours X $0.08/KwHr = $35 per year.

Savings per year would be $64 - $35 = $29 per year.

If for example your building has 100 fixtures, then your savings every year will be $2,900. If electrical rates go up your savings will be go up as well of course.

The cost to retrofit a 4 lamp fluorescent fixture is roughly:

4 lamp Ballast:             $31

4 high end T8 lamps:    $26

Labor:                        $40

Total:                        $97

In other words, for an investment of $97 per light you net $29 per year. That's a return on investment of 30% per year! The payback time is about 3 years (if electrical rates go up, less time of course). After that you're essentially netting  $29 per fixture every year. I can't think of any other investment that can net that much per year.

The above figures are estimates. If you would like an estimate for your building (for an entire retrofit or just for retrofit kits), then just click on the E-mail link below

E-mail  atslight@aol.com

Note: this estimate does not include air-conditioning savings. Switching to high efficiency lights will reduce your heat loads in the summer, saving a few dollars per fixture each year in air-conditioning costs as well.

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