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"After my lighting retrofit, people called saying, 'Wow, how did you do it? How can I do the same thing?'"
Joel Austin
Jones Lang LaSalle
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Osram Sylvania Energy Efficiency In lighting, energy-efficiency is the cornerstone of sustainability. It provides the double benefit of reducing environmental impacts while saving money for consumers, businesses, and governments. Energy-efficient lighting requires less power, which lowers electricity demand. This enables power plants to burn less fossil fuel, the primary source of hazardous air pollution emissions. And using less energy means lower energy bills, which is always a welcome outcome. According to U.S. Department of Energy estimates, lighting is responsible for about one-fifth of national electrical consumption. The majority of energy usage takes place in the commercial sector, where lighting accounts for about one third of electricity usage and 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. Inefficient lighting increases a building’s heating load, requiring additional cooling capacity and increasing costs. Collectively, consumers and businesses spend approximately $37 billion a year to light their homes, offices, streets, and factories. As the nation’s residential and commercial infrastructure continues to expand to meet the needs of a rising population, the need for lower-cost lighting solutions grows more acute. OSRAM SYLVANIA has long been the energy-efficient product innovators. An important trend in lighting technology is the move toward systems. By bringing lamp and ballast development under an integrated SYSTEM SOLUTION® concept, OSRAM SYLVANIA has been able to design innovative SYLVANIA lighting systems that optimize energy savings without sacrificing other elements of performance. |
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