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Keep energy costs from eating into your company's profits. Start by cutting energy use at your distribution facility. Use a few simple substitutions to make substantial changes in your center's energy costs.
1. Use Energy-Efficient Lighting
Energy-efficient lighting can drastically affect your energy costs. Simply by replacing conventional lighting with energy-efficient light fixtures can reduce your facility's energy bill by 50 percent. Depending on current energy use, you could quickly see a return on the cost to install the new lights.
Facility operators have a couple of energy-efficient lighting options. Fluorescent lights burn cool. The downside to these lights is their warm up time, especially when used in refrigerated facilities. But if exchanging older metal halide lights with fluorescent, you could lower energy usage by 80 percent.
High-intensity discharge — HID — lights such as metal halide require time to warm up. Turning the lights off frequently becomes inefficient with these lights. Luckily, HID lights have increased in efficiency over the last decade. A 360-watt HID bulb today produces as much light as a 400-watt bulb from 10 years ago.
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