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Inefficient lighting is in the past
Today there are energy conservation Standards in place, and nearly all federally funded projects require compliance. Compliance not only improves the quality of lighting
on a property, it can mean lower utility rates in some areas, energy credits, and sometimes property tax reductions.
Lamp Recycling is The LAW
Solid Waste Disposals charge fees to handle volume of harmful substances such as Lead, Mercury and Phosphor, etc.
Proper disposal is extremely important. Small quantities may have no fee, but caught doing improper disposal can have
greater cost or worse impact. Beware.
An example disposal fee can be shown with Fluorescent; for less than 20 tubes one time, they may charge nothing. For more tubes at one time, or over a period can be $1 each.
Contact your disposal site for proper fee based on type: Fluorescent, Metal Halide, Induction, Mercury, HPS or other lighting technologies.
Power Factor is important here. Increasing PF reduces power requirements of the utility company.
This is another element that can lower your electricity rate when everything is documented and combined properly.
Note that electricity billing rate is increased when Power Factor is too low.
Carbon Dioxide
Congress has tax for power companies on this emission, and the amount does vary with fuel type. Rebates may be a power company's
incentive to you to save company fuel, which reduces emission, and this can help you pay for new lighting.
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Lighting Power Density
A US Department Of Energy (DOE) regulation on energy use. The LPD set-up entries below will calculate and display your values to
confirm compliance. These do not affect your costs here in this calculator, but if non compliant, your rates may be taxed or fined,
or the power company may simply mask an increase to those rates.
Rebate from the electric company
Rebate can be an incentive by the power company for customers to reduce their power demand. Electric companies are required to
lower carbon dioxide emissions; that occurs when replacing power demanding HVAC, lighting and other equipment.
Different fuels are differently efficient and they emit different amounts of the gas per kilo-Watt Hour.
Electric companies benefit from reduced gas emission by improving fuel, and from that can offer rebate figures. But at the
same time their customer income is reduced by reducing power billing. One means of receiving a return (funding back) is when a power
company (or other) offers a rebate. This all becomes clear with proper calculations.
Disposal fees, Power Factor and Lighting Power Density
Simple ROI doesn't explain payments when lighting is replaced. New lighting offers financial benefits, that's from reducing energy which helps Earth.
Some energy reductions can sufficiently lower the electrical payment so the new product is
paid off very soon. Remember a rebate is a one-time short lived incentive while reducing electrical billing lasts the entire program, and beyond when you follow all the directions.
The calculator shows IRS factors of first year through LED life.
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Simple ROI= % (Energy & Maint. Savings - Investment) ÷ Investment
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| IRS EPAct requires independent certification of Illumination and LPD energy reduction.
That professional service fee is not included in this summary; it is IRS deductible, be sure it is added to the final.
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