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The "Green Lights" program not only allows clients to make significant savings in their lighting expense, but can also improve lighting quality. "Green Lights" is helping thousands of companies across the country achieve cost savings by up-grading to more energy-efficient lighting systems.

To determine if your company can benefit from participating in the Green Lights program, ask yourself the following questions:

Is the cost of electricity for lighting a significant part of your expense budget?
Do I use lighting over 3000 hours per year (60 hours/week x 50 weeks)?
Is my lighting system design more than 10 years old?
Do I have a mix of incandescent and fluorescent lights?
Is color rendering important for product display, color matching, or flaw detection?

If you answer "yes" to two or more of these questions, your company can benefit from a lighting assessment.

By participating in the "Green Lights" Program, your company can expect: 20% or more reduction in electric bills, 20% or more internal rate of return on investment (after taxes), and no capital outlay financing options may be available. Over $254 million/year is already being saved by Green Lights participants.

"Waste Reduction Partners" can help your company determine the benefits of energy-efficient lighting up-grades. The "Waste Reduction Partners" team performs a facility lighting system survey that identifies potential lighting efficiency improvement opportunities. These opportunities are evaluated and a computer model analysis of the potential savings is provided to the client. This confidential report gives specific recommendations to save money, increase efficiency, conserve resources, and increase lighting quality.

As much as 40% of the total energy required for a facility is used for lighting. Reducing the energy used for lighting also reduces the emissions from power plants generating that energy. For example, the up-grading of 75 two by four-foot fluorescent fixtures reduces emissions by the same amount as removing an automobile from the road.

Having WRP engineers conduct a lighting efficiency assessment is one way your organization can improve its environmental performance while saving money.