Converting to LED lighting provides excellent benefits to you as the owner and to your facility managers. LED lights operate differently than you typical HID lamps because of the way they generate light and how that light is distributed. LED fixtures commonly use multi-point sources. This allows the light to be more evenly distributed across the surrounding surface. There are 3 main benefits of LED retrofits or conversions.
Energy Savings
Business owners are motivated to complete a LED retrofit for the cost and energy savings. The transition from HID to LED lighting leads to a significant reduction in energy consumption right away. This means that your facility could be saving hundreds of dollars per fixture, per year, in energy costs. Depending on the size of your parking lot, this could truly affect your bottom line. Energy savings is one of the best benefits of LED retrofits.
Maintenance Cost Reduction
Switching to LED lighting systems also lowers maintenance costs. LED lights progress through heir functional life differently than older lights. They don’t stop working out of nowhere, instead, the light output degrades very slowly over time. The functional life of an LED product can be significantly longer than that of a HID lamp. This drastically reduces the costs for maintaining a parking lot over a longer period of time.
Lighting Performance
Finally, the performance of your parking and area lighting is important. Making sure that your consumers and employees feel safe in your parking lot, and ensuring there is plenty of visibility as they they walk and drive around, is essential. Older HID lights have more of a “bright spot” directly underneath the fixture and light levels decrease as the distance from the pole increases. From a lighting performance standpoint, LED distributes their light more evenly.
Conclusion
These are the main benefits for retrofitting parking lots with LED lights. You can expect to see dramatic reductions in energy cots, less frequent maintenance costs, and improved lighting performance. To learn more about ServicePro Electrical’s LED retrofitting service, contact us today!
