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Rohit Aggarwala, Director of New York City’s Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability, Valerie Brown, President of the National Association of Counties and Sonoma County California Supervisor, and Greg Nickels, former Mayor of Seattle and leader of the U.S. Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement, speak at the Best Practices and Local-Level Leadership for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy event hosted by Yale World Fellows and supported by the renewable energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), the Alliance to Save Energy, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), and the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate.

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Thursday, January 28, 2010: Policies to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency have been gaining momentum throughout the world, often justified by environmental and energy security concerns. This presentation first talks about energy efficiency options, then delves into the economic motivation for energy efficiency and renewable energy policies by articulating the classes of relevant behavioral failures and market failures. Such behavioral and market failures may vary intertemporally or atemporally; the temporal structure and the extent of the failures are the critical considerations in the development of energy policies. The talk discusses key policy instruments and assess the extent to which they are well-suited to correct for failures with different structures. http://eetd.lbl.gov/dls/lecture-01-28-10-sweeney.html

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As the White House continues to promote energy efficiency as a key component to solving the energy crisis, politicians and business leaders consider commercial buildings prime candidates for efficiency savings. Clean Skies News’ Susan McGinnis takes a look at “green” building and tours a building that’s won top-level recognition for energy efficiency.

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Don’t think of energy efficiency as Savings… Think of it as Profits.

By Michael Denby, J.D., Principal, Denby Energy, LLC www.denbyenergy.com

Saving businesses money by reducing energy use has significant rewards, but they are often overlooked in favor of more immediate, tangible returns. One of the overlooked benefits of energy savings programs is that they rarely have a one year return, but instead generate bottom line profits year after year.

Often company executives are in the dark when it comes to understanding the amount of money they actually pay for energy. They know with great certainty exactly how much they pay for each component that is used to create the widgets they sell, but they don’t know how much power their buildings and processes consume. And that is a significant gap in their business model.

This article shows how, by investing in energy savings, a business can make significant returns to the bottom line, year after year.

For purposes of this article, let’s assume that you own a small business with average energy bill of approximately $15,000 a year. If your business could reduce that energy bill by 30% by investing $4,000 in energy efficiency would it be worth it?

First, let’s look at the simple payback method. At $15,000 a year, a 30% savings would generate $4,500 in yearly savings. And if you were spending $4,000 to get that energy savings, you would have a simple payback period of .88 years, or about 10 and ½ months. For virtually all businesses, that is a very acceptable return on investment.

Second, let’s look beyond the simple payback method. Let’s look at the investment return over the life of the investment and see what it can do for us. For simplicity, let’s assume that the investments made to increase energy efficiency had a life of 7 years. The initial investment would have been paid off in 10 ½ months, but the benefit (profits) from that investment (returns) continue for the next 7 years. That means after the first year, the business will have 6 more years of those improvements generating a $4,500 return each and every year. The result?

Well since this is a Series question we input $4,500 a year as our “A”, with 6 years as our “n” and 5% as our “i”. The answer comes out to $30,608.55 in total returns(profits) over those 7 years.

Now, let’s look at one alternative – instead of investing back into their business, the owner takes that $4,000 as a payout and puts it into her retirement account. For purposes of this example, let’s assume her retirement account is earning a really strong return of 10% (despite the economic turndown). The $4,000 is a one-time investment, so it runs as a Single Sum Series. After 7 years she would have a total of $7,794. That means she would have left $22,814 on the table. Or better defined, she would have paid the local utility companies $22,814 more than she paid herself for the privilege of wasting energy.

(c) 2008 Denby Energy, LLC  All Rights Reserved.

Michael Denby
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/energy-efficiency-is-a-profit-center-for-your-business-672511.html

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In areas where accidental impact or deliberate criminal mischief can shatter overhead lights, commercial vandal proof ceiling mount lighting fixtures offer a form of lighting whose higher impact and scratch resistance makes them extremely difficult to break, dislodge, or tamper with. Vandal proof, ceiling mount light fixtures offer schools, public buildings, shopping malls, and indoor apartments and condominiums a long-term, reliable source of lighting that will require only occasional maintenance. Many of these commercial ceiling mount lights also offer significant improvements in thermal management and energy conservation, making it possible for them to significantly lower your client’s light bill.

In areas where accidental impact or deliberate criminal mischief can shatter overhead lights, commercial vandal proof ceiling mount lighting fixtures offer a form of lighting whose higher impact and scratch resistance makes them extremely difficult to break, dislodge, or tamper with. Vandal proof, ceiling mount light fixtures offer schools, public buildings, shopping malls, and indoor apartments and condominiums a long-term, reliable source of lighting that will require only occasional maintenance. Many of these commercial ceiling mount lights also offer significant improvements in thermal management and energy conservation, making it possible for them to significantly lower your client’s light bill.

These three factors: longer lifespan, resistance to impact, and energy efficiency, make vandal proof ceiling mount light fixtures ideal for clients who are hesitant to invest in something they truly need to curb the rising costs of operations. Showing them on paper a calculated reduction in electrical costs, and showing them as well how many years the fixtures can be expected to last without having to accrue further replacement and labor costs can soften the blow of the invoice, so to speak. Your clients can see the math clearly laid out on the table. The monthly savings that compound after installing commercial overhead vandal proof lighting represents a new revenue stream that pays the company back for the cost of the equipment, and the resistance of these lights to tampering further ensures the viability of their investment.

RLLD Commercial Lighting further ensures fixture lifespan not only with vandal proof design, but also commercial lighting manufacturer warranties back up in writing. Every fixture we sell, without exception, is a commercial or specification grade luminaire made in the USA. There are no retail grade substitutions in our inventory, and we refuse to import parts or fixtures from any manufacturers overseas. Clients who may be tempted to run down to the hardware store and buy commercial ceiling mounted lighting fixtures themselves, then have an electrician on staff install them, don’t have to shortchange themselves on quality or compounded losses when the fixtures fail and have to be replaced. With our equipment, they can be assured that a onetime investment will carry itself through the recession, and them along with it.

RLLD Commercial Lighting offers several distinctive types of commercial vandal proof ceiling mount lights, giving you the freedom to match fixtures precisely to client needs.

Fluorescent Ceiling Mount Lights

RLLD commercial lighting ceiling mount fluorescents 26, 32, or 42-watt compact commercial grade fluorescent included. These vandal-proof, ceiling mounted lights come in either white and bronze finishes to, and they are UL listed for all regions of the United States and are ideal for small school districts and government buildings in small and mid-sized cities.

HPS Ceiling Mount, Vandal Proof Fixtures

High-pressure sodium lamps provide a compact, high output form of vandal proof lighting in cramped quarters. We have high-pressure sodium fixtures that feature a lamp life of 24,000 hours in almost every situation and lighting environment. Like their fluorescent equivalents, they are meant to operate without fail in damp and wet areas as well as dry regions of the country. Most fixtures feature die cast aluminum housing with a transparent polycarbonate refractor.

Our high-wattage and low wattage models are available to cover the full gamut of indoor and outdoor lighting needs, and all fixtures come with lamps included.

Metal Halide Vandal Proof Lights

RLLD Commercial Lighting offers quartz restrike metal halide ceiling mounted fixtures with vandal proof lens covers. These lights will immediately come back on in the event your client suffers a power failure. The average lamp life of standard models is approximately 10,000 hours. These lamps are so bright that many contractors install them as supplemental security lights. RLLD Commercial Lighting also sells Indoor low voltage equivalents offer the same essential value package with lower wattage and a longer lamp life of up to 15,000 hours.

Our specialists will help you determine which fixture types, wattages, and lamp options best meet the needs of your client by performing a full photometric analysis of your client’s location. This will show us all that is necessary to determine the exact number of fixtures you will need, how much light they will have to produce, where to best mount them, and what lamps and wattages will most effectively accommodate all requirements above. The cost of the analysis will be deducted from your equipment invoice at the time you purchase the equipment.

R. Neal
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/commercial-vandal-proof-ceiling-mounted-light-fixtures-728772.html

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