Industrial High Bay LED Lighting: Reducing Cost

Owners and managers of factories will know that maintaining suitable lighting is a significant overhead. This is why we are often asked whether installing Industrial High Bay LED Lighting really does lead to measurable cost savings.

In this blog, we’d like to summarise the three main sources of cost from traditional lighting – and the ways that retrofitting LED Lighting in high bay situations can deliver a tangible return on your investment.

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How Can LED Lighting Return On Its Investment?

Problem 1: High energy costs. The energy rating of fluorescent and incandescent bulbs is rapidly being seen as an unacceptable overhead by industrial users.

SOLUTION: Lower energy bills with LED Lighting. LED lighting typically uses up to 80 percent less electricity than fluorescent/incandescent lighting.

Problem 2: poor lifespan of existing bulbs. Fluorescent and incandescent bulbs offer disappointing lifespans. Not only that, but fluorescent lamps start to degrade in performance over time, so towards the end of their life they will grow dimmer and lose much of their original colour.

SOLUTION: longer lasting LED bulbs. LED bulbs can last up to 20 times longer than fluorescent and incandescent lighting. Lifespans of 50,000 hours or more are typical.

Problem 3: maintenance time when replacing bulbs. With high bay lighting being located at heights of 20 feet or above, there is a considerable risk of serious injury should an employee have a fall while replacing a bulb. Control measures therefore need to be put in place each time a bulb is replaced, and these take time and therefore involve cost. The use of bulky specialist equipment such as cherry pickers can also disrupt production.

SOLUTION: much fewer bulb replacements. As we have seen, LED bulbs last much longer than traditional technologies, so the maintenance of them is drastically reduced. Busy maintenance staff will find the days of frequently bringing out ladders, cherry pickers and other equipment to replace bulbs are over.

Is It Time For LED Lighting?

Get a proper assessment of the potential for cost savings by requesting our free LED Energy Saving Report. After a site visit we will produce a comprehensive report to help you decided whether to invest in LED Lighting.

Click here to request a free LED Lighting audit, or click here to see the benefits of LED Lighting