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Brewery's Industrial Lighting Project a "No-Brainer"

16 May, 2013 - 08:31 -- darren
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PowerSmart
Retrofit
Energy Saving
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16 May, 2013

At Vancouver Island Brewery, they refill their bottles, offer their used grain for animal feed, and have replaced older sales vehicles with energy-efficient cars. Then they focused their environmental ethic on their lighting.

"Some of the employees were saying, 'lt's getting a little dark in some areas,'" says Brent Pottage, plant operations manager for the brewery. "We had old 400-watt metal halide lighting, and they were giving a sort of 'orange-y' light."

Las Vegas Convention Center Cuts Energy Consumption by 40% with High Bay Luminaires from Acuity Brands

2 April, 2013 - 10:09 -- darren
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Acuity Brands
Holophane
Energy Saving
Retrofit
News Date: 
2 April, 2013

The Las Vegas Convention Center selected approximately 2,000 Holophane® DualBay high bay luminaires from Acuity Brands to improve lighting and reduce costs in its 3.2 million-square-foot facility.

DOE Report on Energy Consumption & Lighting

30 January, 2012 - 08:51 -- darren
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Energy Saving
DOE
News Date: 
30 January, 2012

In order to plan its SSL R&D program effectively, DOE needs an accurate and comprehensive picture of the U.S. lighting market and its energy consumption. That information has been painstakingly collected and is presented in a new DOE report, the 2010 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization, which will be of considerable interest to many in the industry. Available online at www.ssl.energy.gov/tech_reports.html, the LMC is an update to a similar report that looked at the 2001 market and provides a useful comparison.

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