Francine Pitassi, one of Regency's Lighting Specialists, works with customers every day to find cost and energy saving lighting options for their applications. One topic she finds herself addressing often is that of lighting rebates. In this article, Francine helps answer some of the most common questions we receive centered around lighting rebates.
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Topics: Lighting rebates, DLC listed, Energy Star certification, Energy savings
Energy rebates can be a big boost for building improvement projects, like a lighting retrofit. But is the reward even worth the hassle?
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Topics: Savings, Payback, & ROI, Lighting rebates, Energy efficiency, Energy savings, LED retrofit
Interest in low voltage, or 12v, lighting has grown in our increasingly energy-conscious customers over the last several years, with the emergence and proliferation of long-life, energy-efficient lighting.
But to properly understand the full benefits of low voltage lighting, we should start here: low voltage lighting is more of a tactical application than a budgetary or energy-saving one, though there may be moderate gains in these areas in certain instances.
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Topics: Retail Lighting, Energy savings
This is the second in our series of articles meant to take the mystery out of savings and payback calculations for lighting. From designers to engineers to executives, lighting projects are more commonly cross-functional decisions.
This article focuses on one of the least-covered questions on savings calculations for lighting projects: How can a lighting retrofit save you money on HVAC costs?
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Topics: Savings, Payback, & ROI, Lighting maintenance, Energy efficiency, Hotel lighting, Education facility, Energy savings, Multifamily lighting, Commercial office lighting
Have you ever considered cutting your cable TV subscription? With faster internet speeds and more video streaming services out there — Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu, and YouTube, to name a few — it seems like more people are considering changing the channel from traditional cable or satellite TV providers for on-demand, more customizable TV streaming services.
If you’ve considered this, you’ve probably looked at a cable bill and thought, "How can they get away with charging that kind of money?"
If you’ve had this experience, you’ve certainly evaluated the high cost of the status quo.
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Topics: LED, Savings, Payback, & ROI, Lighting maintenance, Energy savings, LED retrofit
Sometimes, customers hear the word "retrofit" and run. They want no part in another huge project and understandably so –– they've got enough going on with other upgrade projects around their building.
But if a retrofit ends up anything like what we helped the Franklin Templeton Investments (FTI) building in San Mateo, California to achieve in its two parking garages, there's nothing to fear.
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Topics: LED, Parking Garage Lighting, HID, Energy savings, LED retrofit
Calculating energy savings and finding lighting rebates is no easy feat. You're often left searching on your own for seemingly impossible-to-find answers to your questions. Well, search no further. We've compiled a list of our top resources for energy savings and lighting rebate information.
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Topics: Savings, Payback, & ROI, Lighting 101, Lighting rebates, Energy savings, LED retrofit
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.
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Topics: Restaurant Lighting, Movie theater lighting, Lighting maintenance, Lighting rebates, Energy efficiency, Retail Lighting, Parking Garage Lighting, Hospital lighting, Hotel lighting, Warehouse lighting, Education facility, Energy savings, Multifamily lighting, Commercial office lighting
We’ve written separately on the blog about energy savings calculations and ballast factors with ballast-dependent lighting, but how do these two topics come together? This can be a really tricky topic in lighting if you’re new to ballast factors.
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Topics: LED, Energy efficiency, Energy savings, Ballast, Fluorescent light
Can you actually retrofit T12 to LED without changing out the ballast?
The answer is yes. Prior to 2016, there weren't any LED plug-and-play replacement options for T12 lamps from major lighting manufacturers. Now things have changed with a new magnetic ballast-compatible LED tube.
Last year, Philips rolled out an
Admittedly, commodity T12 fluorescents haven't been manufactured in any kind of large quantity in the United States for a few years now, making them one of the endangered species of the lighting world. Additionally, beginning in 2010, legislation to cease the production of magnetic ballasts –– the functional heart behind T12 lamps –– went into effect.
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Topics: LED, Parking Garage Lighting, T12, Energy savings, Fluorescent light, Commercial office lighting
