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European electricity prices soared to new records at the beginning of this month. The year-ahead contract for German electricity reached 995 euros per megawatt hour while the French equivalent surged past 1,100 euros -- a more than ten times increase in both countries from last year.
Due to the energy crisis in Europe, the electricity price will stay high or possibly even go higher as winter comes.
It is urgent to save energy from all aspects of life. And lighting, as one of the highest electricity consumption, we need to consider what kind of products can be more energy-saving and reduce electricity bills. Here are 3 tips to help you to choose such a product.
1. Choosing the high-lumen efficiency LED lighting.
Choosing the high-lumen efficiency LED lighting can help to save at least 80% cost.
In past years, we normally use 150W or 200W LED highbay to replace 400W HID. Nowadays, we can use 80W or 100W LED high bay to replace 400W HID as the lumen efficiency of our Highbay can go up to 200lm/w. This dramatic reduction in energy use adds up fast when you consider that a single facility might have thousands of lights burning 24/7. Industrial lighting uses enough power to light a third of all homes in Europe, which means any reduction here can have a substantial impact on overall energy use.
2. Choosing Smart controls.
Choosing Smart controls can add 50 percent more savings.
Unlike HPS fixtures, which require an extended warmup period to come up to full output, LED fixtures are instant on, delivering full output the moment the switch is flipped. This enables industrial LED fixtures to be equipped with smart controls, such as occupancy and daylight harvesting sensors, as well as programmed dimming and other configurable lighting schematics. This dramatically reduces burn time compared to HPS lights, which are often left burning 24/7 to avoid the warmup, and can further cut energy use and cost by up to 50 percent per day.
3. Choosing suitable optics LED fixtures.
Choosing suitable optics LED fixtures can help to save at least 30% on energy costs.
For example, the traditional led high bays with round beam angles are not suitable for the warehouse with high Racks application, which will result in great light loss. While our linear high bay light with rectangular beam angle complies with the shape of the aisle, see the below illustrating picture. At such an application, our 90W HiRack even has a better lighting effect than 150W round high bay. So choosing the right optics for such an application also can help to save energy.
