LED lighting can save your company and premises a lot of money annually, in some cases it can almost half your bills. It gives the same adequate lighting whilst using less energy. which is not only good for your company, but great for the environment too.
Once installed, energy-efficient LED lighting quickly begins to recoup its costs. The low operating costs and long life of the LED lights are the biggest financial benefits of having an upgrade.
To give you a picture of the savings, a complete upgrade to LED lighting from older fluorescent or incandescent bulbs can give an energy saving of 50% to 80% each year – a huge figure in a large building.
Each LED bulb gives longer hours of operation than the equivalent traditional light bulb. The differences are substantial.
An incandescent bulb may need to be replaced like every three months when subjected to heavy everyday use – approximately 1000 hours before it burns out. Compared to an LED bulb might serve for 50,000 hours of use, which is around 10 years before it needs replacing. This massively out competes the 6000 working hours of the average compact fluorescent bulb, the nearest competitor in the efficient lighting stakes.
LED lights consume less electricity and are far more environmentally friendly to produce than other types of bulb. They contain less metal, little or no glass and use no toxic substances – such as the mercury used in the coils of fluorescent bulbs. This makes LED bulbs cheaper to make and easier to recycle.
Lighting design is all about directing light to particular areas at particular times. This is difficult with standard light bulbs, and is why designers had to use a complex network of diffusers and reflectors to trap and redirect light. LED lights have the benefit of being able to emit more light using less power in a specific direction, reducing the need for supporting diffusers or reflectors.
This actually makes LED lighting design cheaper than traditional lighting. LED lights can be adapted as ceiling downlights, architectural lighting, emergency lighting and more.
A substantial amount of the energy poured into incandescent and fluorescent bulbs ends up being wasted as heat. This is why offices, art galleries and hospital departments – among other buildings – tend to get so hot. An incandescent bulb operates by heating a metal filament until it glows, while fluorescent bulbs superheat a gas filled chamber until it glows. In both cases light is technically the waste product, not the primary emission. In some older models of light bulb, up to 90% of the energy produced is heat rather than light. This is hugely wasteful and is also a fire risk.
LEDs produce far less heat due to the use of tiny diodes to generate light. The small amount of waste heat that is produced is normally absorbed backwards into the light bulb, so that LED light arrays remain safe and cool to the touch.