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We've Moved
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Premier Lighting 2885 Country Drive, Suite 135
St. Paul, MN 55117
We will be moving the week of February 6th through the 10th and we will be open for business during the move, with some minor interruption to telephone service on the 9th and 10th. So, if you have trouble getting in touch with us during these times, leave a message or, please try back again on Monday, February 13th.
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Bonus Rebates up to 50% Now Available for T12 Upgrades
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T12 Fluorescent Rebates to be Phased Out in 2012
Due to the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Regulations, nearly all inefficient T12 fluorescent lighting will be phased out in 2012 and will no longer be available.
To assist with this change, Xcel Energy has announced a limited-time bonus rebate program for T12 - T8 retrofit, T12 - T8 optimization and T12 - T5 retrofit measures.
Beginning March 8, 2011 through December 31, 2012, all Xcel Energy Minnesota electric business customers are eligible for up to a 50 percent bonus rebate - above and beyond current rebate levels - for these select T12 upgrades*. Rebates can not exceed 75 percent of cost.
Now is the time to upgrade your inefficient T12 Lighting. The bonus rebates will be available for a limited time only. The 50 percent bonus rebates will be available from March 8, 2011 through March 31, 2012. On April 1, 2012, our bonus rebate will be reduced to 30 percent. So now is the time,to act, to maximize your rebate potential.
Rebates for T12 upgrades will not be offered from Xcel Energy after December 31, 2012.
*For T12 - T8 retrofit, T12 - T8 optimization and T12 - T5 retrofit measures only. Rebates subject to fixture wattage and other variables. Contact us today to for a free review of your present T12 lighting and the rebates available to retrofit to energy saving T8 or T5 lamps and fixtures.
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U.S. Lighting Market Characterization
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The overarching goal of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Solid-State Lighting program is to assist in the market transition to more energy-efficient white-light source technologies. In order to accurately chart progress made toward this goal, the current characteristics of the lighting market must be well understood. DOE's 2010 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization (LMC) provides this information through comprehensive and detailed estimates of the national inventory of installed lamps, their performance characteristics, associated energy use, and lumen production. National lighting characteristics were developed for four sectors: residential buildings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and outdoor. The estimates provided in the LMC report were developed via building lighting audit data, industry surveys, national lamp shipment data, and interviews with lighting professionals and subject matter experts.
It was found that in 2010 lighting accounted for approximately 700 terawatt-hours (TWh), or roughly 19 percent of total U.S. electricity use. As shown in the graph below, nearly half of the energy use resides in the commercial sector, which produced the majority of lumens. This sector is dominated by fluorescent lighting used for an average of 11 hours per day. The residential sector contains by far the most installed lamps with nearly six billion installations, over half of which contain incandescent lamps. However, due to the relatively low operating hours of these lamps, the residential sector is only the second largest lighting energy consumer, at 175 TWh per year. Notable Trends
All estimates provided in the current report are representative of the U.S. market in the year 2010. This report is an update to the previous LMC, which modeled the 2001 U.S. lighting market inventory. During the last decade, two notable high-level trends have occurred:
Increased demand for light. The total number of lamps installed in U.S. stationary applications grew from just under seven billion in 2001 to over eight billion in 2010. The vast majority of the growth occurred in the residential sector, primarily due to the increase in number of households and the rise in the number of sockets per household, from 43 in 2001 to 51 in 2010.
Push towards higher-efficacy lighting. Investment in more energy-efficient technologies, federal and state lighting regulations, and public awareness campaigns have been effective in shifting the market toward more energy-efficient lighting technologies. Across all sectors the lighting stock has become more efficient, with the average system efficacy of installed lighting increasing from 45 lumens per watt in 2001 to 58 lumens per watt in 2010. This rise in efficacy is largely due to two major technology shifts: the move from incandescent to compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in the residential sector, and the move from T12 to T8 and T5 fluorescent lamps in the commercial and industrial sectors.
If you are considering any lighting project to reduce energy or improve light quality give us a call today.....or contact us at Premier Lighting. |
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Special Pricing on T8 4' Ballasts
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Stock up on 4-Lamp, 3-Lamp and 2-Lamp Instant Start, High Efficiency, NBF Ballasts
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