Practical advice on commercial lighting from LED retrofits to lighting design.

With the number of LED options available today, you may feel stuck by indecision when it comes to updating the lighting for your facility. With the advancement of technology, the decision making process has become much more complicated. Color temperature. Color Rendering Index. Lumen output. And the list goes on and on. 

Here are three basic tips to follow when it comes to retrofitting your lighting.

When it comes to a lighting retrofit, you want to be able to accurately predict what kind of savings you’ll get after everything’s said and done. Accurate savings estimates make a deposit of trust and expertise in your account when you go to your boss for that next money-saving project.

How does lighting affect your electricity bill? How much will a lighting retrofit save you? How do you begin to estimate the value of a potential lighting rebate?

There’s one common thread that runs through each of these questions: the difference between watts (W), kilowatts (kW), and kilowatt-hours (kWh).

The energy industry is almost as bad as the lighting industry at using abbreviations and jargon, so we’ll try to break each of these down with some practical examples.

In this article, I’m going to use the analogy of equating electricity to water. This is a common analogy that we can’t claim it as our own, but hopefully our specific examples will shed some light on this important question.

This past year has been an incredible period of growth and innovation at Regency Lighting. In celebration of our amazing clients and what our team has accomplished in 2015, we wanted to share a few highlights.