Why change to LED lighting?

19/11/2013 14:13

SAVE MONEY -  SAVE CO2 
The cost of light: One question that is regularly asked is: Why are LED Tube so expensive ? The answer is: They really are NOT.

Lets take an example of replacing ten of your regular 35W halogen downlighters with ten of our equivalent strength 3.7W LED down lighters. Our lights will cost you £22 each fitted. A halogen light will cost you £2.00 to your door. Each light lasts for 50,000 hours. An average halogen will last for 2000 to 5000 hours before it fails and has to be replaced. Lets be generous and call it 5,000 hours. So, over the 50,000 hours you will need 100 (10 x 10) halogens (costing £200 in total) or alternatively 10 of ours (costing £350).

The price is one thing, the running cost is another. To run each halogen requires 35Watts and to run each LED takes only 3.7Watts. Today's average business electricity price is around 10p / kWh. So over 50,000 hours the cost of running the halogens will be around £1,750 and the cost of running the LEDs will be £185. That is a saving of roughly 90%.

In total you will spend £1,950 (£200 + £1,750) buying and running your halogens. If you replace them with our lights you will spend only £385 (£200 + £185) in all saving over 85% in the process.
With 10 fittings over 50,000 hours, you will save almost £1,550 at todays prices by replacing each 35W halogen downlighter with a ecolite LED .... and they're greener (less electricity means less carbon) and safer (they dont burn to the touch).

Environment
Reduces carbon emissions by supplying lights which use at least 90% less energy than halogens and 70% less than CFL technology

Carbon Emissions
Reduces carbon emissions by supplying lights which use at least 90% less energy than halogens and 70% less than CFL technology

DID YOU KNOW?

LED lighting offers excellent light quality for both indoor and outdoor uses. It takes 50 incandescent light bulbs or 8 CFL’s to equal the lifespan of 1 LED bulb

led t5 Tube emits 90% less heat than a conventional bulb therefore producing more light than heat and gaining maximum energy efficiency

 An led t8 Tube is the bi-product of electricity jumping between two different alloys. This produces a small amount of light and depending upon the alloys, the color is dictated

LED light is truly a solid state light as there are no gases, no filaments, and no moving parts to fatigue. Fluorescent lights are filled with a gas containing low-pressure mercury vapor and argon, or sometimes even krypton

Replacing half of all Christmas bulbs with LED bulbs would cut U.S. energy bills by $17 billion annually

Red LED technology was used in NASA space shuttle plant growth experiments

LEDs can be made completely waterproof for many marine applications

It has been proven that employees become more productive and perform well in an environment with proper lighting

More than 20% of the electricity generated in the U.S. is used for lighting alone
 

By using energy efficient lighting you can save up to 75% on your monthly electric bill

One quarter of the United States annual electric bill, $34 billion, comes from lighting. 

Researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., estimate that replacing incandescent with
LEDs could save $1.83 trillion in energy costs globally over the next decade and eliminate the need for 280 1,000-megawatt power plants.