The Cost of Not Converting to LED

If the overall costs of upgrading your lighting to LEDs seems to be too expensive, it’s important to consider the benefits of conversion and how the overall cost of conversion can be justified when you think about the cost savings that you can experience from LED retrofits. Here are some top statistics regarding retrofits so that you can see how much you lose out on from not converting to LED!

How Much Money Can be Saved?

Say for example you are using a 400 W metal halide fixture in which every bulb is consuming 400 W. The ballast will also be consuming 50 to 60 W in order to power the light. This means that the fixture is consuming 455 W of power in reality. Converting over to LED can lead to a reduced consumption of power because it reduces the consumption of every lighting fixture across your property.

A 20,000 lm fixture is likely what’s needed to replace a 400 W metal halide fixture. In order to get an LED that has the same power rating you will have to use a 100 W fixture. If your business remains in regular operation, the cost of operating a 100 W LED fixture is around $50 per year assuming that the light is on roughly 12 hours a day. The same fixture in a metal halide will cost nearly $240 per year to operate. For a large facility that has over 100 fixtures this can represent the difference of paying a utility bill that’s over $20,000 or just over $5000.

LEDs can Improve Your Maintenance Costs

LEDs have a much longer lifespan and even though they lower your cost for utilities, they can lower maintenance costs as well. Because LED’s do not generate the same amount of heat and because they are built with extremely durable components, these are lights that will not experience the same degradation that you would experience from other types of lighting products. An LED driver will operate between 50,000 to 65,000 hours. This means that if you are running the same fixture for 12 hours a day, you might not have to change the bulb for over 10 years. The lifespan of a metal halide light is roughly 15,000 hours and this could mean having to do a lighting change once every year or two. When you consider the overall cost of maintenance and the cost of replacement for multiple bulbs, you can see how LEDS can help you lower your costs over time.

Improving Efficiency Throughout Your Business

LED lighting has also been shown to improve efficiency because the light that these bulbs produce is higher-quality. The improved colors and light sources can produce higher efficiency with greater accuracy. The fixtures can also be customized for their lighting levels as well as for colors so that you can get the perfect look for displaying your products.

As well as improving efficiencies throughout your location, high-quality LED light can also build a safer environment. With LEDs you can make sure that you can have better security in your parking lots, throughout your facility and for employee safety.

The cost of not converting to LED is much too high, retrofit your commercial business to an LED lighting solution today! Contact us for more information!