3 Reasons To Choose LED

LED lamps and tubes have many clear advantages over incandescent, halogen or compact fluorescent lamps.  Here are just 3 that you might like to think about:

  1. LED lighting will reduce your energy bill.  In a climate of financial austerity and rising energy costs reducing your electricity spend on lighting can have a significant effect on the bottom line.  LED lamps will reduce incandescent and halogen lamp energy usage.  A 400W hi-bay replaced by a 128w LED hi-bay unit is a 73% reduction*.  Over the lifetime of a UKLED LED hi-bay unit (50,000 hrs) it will consume 6,400kWh (at 10 p/kWh) costing £640  Over the same period the halogen equivalent will consume 24,000kWh costing £2400.  That’s £1760 saved for each hi-bay replaced by an LED.
  2. LED lighting will reduce your carbon footprint.  A 400W metal halide hi-bay lamp replaced by a 128W UKLED LED hi-bay unit is a reduction of 73%*.  Over the lifetime of the LED  hi-bay unit (50,000 hrs) it will emit 3.49 tonnes of CO2.  The metal halide equivalent, over the same period, will emit 13.03 tonnes of CO2.  Currently the Government’s CRC scheme will be levying £12 for each tonne of CO2 emitted meaning an extra £156.96 tax saved on each hi-bay replaced by LED.
  3. LED lighting will reduce your maintenance bill.  Maintenance is not just the replacement cost of the lamp, it’s also the cost of both personnel and equipment needed to make the replacement.  A 400W metal halide hi-bay lamp will cost, typically £16.  Replacement will frequently require the cost of high access equipment hire (£120 / day) plus the cost of at least 2 qualified personnel for a couple of hours (another £40) without even considering any process down time to enable the replacement. With a UKLED LED hi-bay unit lasting over 3 times the average rated life the metal halide it is replacing the provable maintenance cost saving is in the region of £528 per hi-bay replaced by LED.

That’s three good reasons adding up to savings of £2445 for every 400W halogen hi-bay lamp replaced by a 120W UKLED hi-bay unit or £1.17 per 24hr operation of each hi-bay unit.

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*Calculation includes 20% ballast and gear wattage