⦁ LED LIGHTING ADVANTAGES FOR BUSINESSES
Perhaps the most attractive trait of LED lighting is the energy savings it provides for businesses. At a minimum, today’s ENERGY STAR-qualified LED bulbs use 75 percent less energy than conventional incandescent lamps.
LEDs also emit a much smaller amount of heat than incandescent lamps or CFLs, which release 80 or 90 percent of their energy as heat, respectively. Less heat produced by your lighting system means that your HVAC system won’t need to work as hard during the summer months. While this is a fraction of the energy savings from the dramatically lower wattage, it still adds up, especially if your business operates multiple locations.
In addition to reduced energy consumption, LED bulbs also last about 35-50 times longer than traditional incandescent bulbs. Today’s LEDs start at a life rating of about three years, running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Imagine what that long life could mean for those hard-to-reach places in your building or the places where you need lifts or other expensive, special equipment to change bulbs.
As the technology of LEDs continues to improve, the color rendering abilities are drastically improving as well. In fact, it’s not uncommon for LED lighting to be a go-to tool for today’s lighting designers. Color pumping is another incredible advance in LED color rendering technology that boosts the output of a certain spectrum of light. With color pumping, whites are brilliant and clean with other colors appearing bright and vibrant.
