Lighting maintenance: manage energy costs and preempting outages

We provide comprehensive electrical services to Rogue Valley to homes and businesses.

An important service is lighting & fixture maintenance. This includes retrofits, along with installing interior and exterior lighting services. You can receive a safety inspection and ideas on reducing your power bills with the Energy Trust of Oregon. We are certified with that Trust to show you how to receive cash rebates.

Home and businesses have used our services to install and service low voltage systems. Typically we provide diagnosis, installation, and repair of low voltage wiring including 120V home lighting, security cameras, and alarms. We can design a low voltage system that might include computer systems, or protection systems.

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Lighting Maintenance Case Study & ROI

Parking Lot After LED installation

Parking Lot Lighting with LEDs: T.J.Maxx Plaza

CBT Development, the developer and property owner of a retail shopping center anchored
by T.J.Maxx in Manchester, New Hampshire, was incurring unusually high costs for parking lot maintenance from frequent lamp replacement and determined that poor power quality was the cause.

Already preparing to replace the plaza’s 25-year-old luminaires, the owner began looking for alternative lighting systems that might offer a more robust light source. During this search, the plaza architect learned about the U.S. Department of Energy GATEWAY Demonstration Program and the Commercial Building Energy Alliances (CBEA) LED Site Lighting Performance Specification and contacted Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to learn more about both.

The owner was particularly interested in occupancy sensors, which would offer the additional benefit of reducing energy use when the plaza is unoccupied, while still providing enough lighting for visibility. Because occupancy sensors are rarely used in parking lots, this installation presented a unique learning opportunity of significant interest to the GATEWAY program.

In this project, a total of 28 (twenty-two 400W [lamp rated power] high-pressure sodium and six 400W metal halide) luminaires were replaced with 25 LED luminaires (120 LEDs per luminaire) manufactured by BetaLED ®, with each luminaire controlled by an integral occupancy sensor that varies operation between high and low light output settings.

The LED product achieved an estimated payback in this installation of about three years, due to the combination of high electricity ($0.14/kWh) and maintenance costs incurred by the conventional products at this location.

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Lighitng maintenence can reduce energy costs (research)

It probably will not suprise you when you hear us say, "many companies pay little or no attention to maintaining light systems."

This type of systems would include reflecting surfaces/lenses or lighting system components that are considered a lighting system in order to maintain maximum energy efficiency.

Lighting systems require regular maintenance to be optimized. Light is, well, taken for granted, but it's necessary to ensure that the appropriate quantity and quality of light is available. That is pretty standard in a commercial environment. But what is often forgot is the maintaining of the overall energy efficiency of each lighting system.

Traditionally, lighting systems are over designed to accommodate for the this expected lack of maintenance. Click here to read a report by a University that had an ROI (return on investment) in less than 17 months on their lighting system retrofit project AND reduced their carbon footprint.

Aztec Electric, offers the experience electrical contractors to enhance lighting systems, lighting fixtures, and reduce your carbon footprint.

In addition, Aztec Electric is a certified Trade Ally Contractor of the Energy Trust of Oregon, which means they are trained to assist you in receiving energy rebates on your lighting maintenance project.  Click here to send us an email.

Electrical: Lighting Maintenance Reduces Expenses

A common lighting maintenance misconception is that bulbs only need to be changed once they’ve died. However, this creates a situation where bulbs are constantly being replaced on a piecemeal, as needed basis. The alternative is relamping, where bulbs are replaced even if they’re not dead, on a scheduled basis.

Why Schedule?

Scheduling allows for a more efficient distribution of the work needed to relamp. Instead of constantly trying to find time to replace burnt out bulbs, you rotate on an already determined schedule, replacing bulbs that are near the end of their lifespan. This blocks off the time in advance, and is a more efficient use of your facility’s resources. Relamping in this manner offers a number of other benefits to your facility.

Reduced Energy Usage

Replacing old bulbs with more efficient ones is a simple way to cut the energy usage in your facility. Consider the following. You can get the same amount of light out of a 15-watt CFL bulb as you can a 65-watt incandescent bulb. That’s 50 less watts, which is a lot less energy. It’s not hard to see how this can result in huge energy savings when you apply it on a facility-wide scale.

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Low cost/high-payback nature of lighting retrofits makes it one of the best investments

At Aztec Electrical, we know understand the low-cost/high-payback nature of lighting upgrades/retrofits that makes lighting retrofits one of your best investments. 

EEB Hub member, Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics (CBPD), identified the best lighting retrofit options for the EEB Hub region and assessed each upgrade using a “triple bottom line” calculation. The first bottom line calculation captures the hard economic cost-benefits of energy and maintenance savings resulting from each of the six retrofits. The second bottom line captures the environmental cost-benefits that are directly linked to electric energy savings: reductions in CO2, SOX, NOX, particulates, and water demands. These four pollutants represent a majority of the environmental damage from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and the consequences include respiratory illness, cancers, and developmental impairment. The third bottom line relates to the human health and productivity cost-benefits that are directly linked to improved lighting quality. - See more at: http://research.cbei.psu.edu/research-digest-reports/best-practices-for-lighting-retrofits#sthash.hehjOBEe.dpuf

Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics (CBPD), identified the best lighting retrofit options and assessed each upgrade using a “triple bottom line” calculation. 

#1 The first bottom line calculation captures the hard economic cost-benefits of energy and maintenance savings resulting from a lighting retrofits.

#2 The second bottom line captures the environmental cost-benefits that are directly linked to electric energy savings: reductions in CO2, SOX, NOX, particulates, and water demands. These four pollutants represent a majority of the environmental damage from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and the consequences include respiratory illness, cancers, and developmental impairment. 

#3 The third bottom line relates to the human health and productivity cost-benefits that are directly linked to improved lighting quality. 

By including the environmental and human impacts when calculating the return on investment for each lighting retrofit, the CBPD demonstrated how cost-effective six lighting upgrades can be: increasing business profitability; lowering energy use and pollutant emissions; and improving employee health and productivity. The practices are listed in order from lowest to highest initial cost. - See more at: http://research.cbei.psu.edu/research-digest-reports/best-practices-for-lighting-retrofits#sthash.hehjOBEe.dpuf

By including the environmental and human impacts when calculating the return on investment for each lighting retrofit, the CBPD demonstrated how cost-effective lighting upgrades can be: increasing business profitability; lowering energy use and pollutant emissions; and improving employee health and productivity. 

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EEB Hub member, Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics (CBPD), identified the best lighting retrofit options for the EEB Hub region and assessed each upgrade using a “triple bottom line” calculation. The first bottom line calculation captures the hard economic cost-benefits of energy and maintenance savings resulting from each of the six retrofits. The second bottom line captures the environmental cost-benefits that are directly linked to electric energy savings: reductions in CO2, SOX, NOX, particulates, and water demands. These four pollutants represent a majority of the environmental damage from burning fossil fuels to generate electricity and the consequences include respiratory illness, cancers, and developmental impairment. The third bottom line relates to the human health and productivity cost-benefits that are directly linked to improved lighting quality. - See more at: http://research.cbei.psu.edu/research-digest-reports/best-practices-for-lighting-retrofits#sthash.hehjOBEe.dpuf

The low-cost/high-payback nature of lighting upgrades makes lighting retrofits the best investments - See more at: http://research.cbei.psu.edu/research-digest-reports/best-practices-for-lighting-retrofits#sthash.hehjOBEe.dpuf

The low-cost/high-payback nature of lighting upgrades makes lighting retrofits the best investments - See more at: http://research.cbei.psu.edu/research-digest-reports/best-practices-for-lighting-retrofits#sthash.hehjOBEe.dpuf

Reduce Energy Costs: lighting maintenance services

At Aztec Electrical we provide industrial and commercial lighting maintenance services. Over the years as a commercial lighting company, Aztec Electrical has evolved to become a leader in lighting maintenance services in  commercial and industrial environments.These are some of the services we provide

Scheduled & Preventative Maintenance

    Let us take action to prevent lighting issues before they happen.

Group Relamping Services

    Take your existing lighting and make it look even better.

Fixture Replacement, Addition, and Relocation

    Make sure all areas are lighted properly and efficiently.

Parking Lot Lighting

    Keep your patrons safe and storefront noticeable with top-quality parking lot lights.

Exterior Building Lighting

    Lighting where you need it to keep your store and signage noticeable and safe.

Lighting Upgrades & Retro Fits

    Replace your old, power-hungry lighting to save power and money.

Emergency Lighting Service

    Bring back lost lighting quickly, easily, and with just one call.

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Lighting Upgrades & Maintenance: home and businesses

Whether you need some minor electrical issue to resolve, have a lighting upgrade need, some lighting maintenance concerns, or more extensive repairs there is no job too big or small for Aztec Electrical to tackle.

Just like any other sort of project that involves working with electricity, it is best to let a professional take care of your re-wiring needs.

It can be severely dangerous work so don’t hesitate to call Aztec Electrical for any re-wiring job and we will take care of it as quickly as we can. We will not only make your home or business electrical system safer, we will also make it work more efficiently than ever before.

Our electrical re-wiring services include:

• Electrical Remodeling Services
• New Wiring for Kitchen Appliances
• Replacing and Installing Switches, Outlets, and Dimmers
• Fuse Box Upgrade
• Knob and Tube Replacement
• Home Safety Services
• Electrical Service Panel Upgrade
• Electric Baseboard Heater Installation
• Service Entrance Cable and Meter Socket Installation

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