How many more years will you continue to pay high costs to light your station before you make the change to solid state lighting!
For the last 40 years or so the outdoor lighting of choice has been HID, mainly Mercury Vapor or Metal Halide. These types of fixtures use huge amounts of energy to light a station at its least profitable time of operation, not only that but they are expensive to maintain as well. With increased labor and fuel costs it can cost upwards of $150.00 to $200.00 to change just one bulb, multiply that by an average station having 24 canopy lights and a hand full of parking lot lights not to mention constantly rising energy costs and you quickly realize how expensive these lights are to own. Over the last several years the increased concern of dumping hazardous Mercury in our landfills has made these types of bulbs hard to get rid of after there life.
The modern service station has evolved from a simple gas station with a few service bays to the sophisticated mini mart convenience stores we have today. These high tech stations have state of the art POS systems, car washes and high end coffee and fast food as profit centers. Every square foot of a new station is planned for maximum profit, except the lighting.
In some states they are requiring back up power to keep stations pumping gas in the event of an evacuation, and power failure, just to keep the lights on would require the use and maintenance of a huge generator for an event that may or may not happen.
Solid state lighting is the answer to all of these problems, with the recent advances in LED technology the super bright white LED available today can cut lighting bills by as much as 75% while keeping maintenance down to near zero (a typical LED light fixture will last 10 or more years) By adding a small natural gas generator you can keep the store lights, canopy lights, Dispensers and cash register running In the event of a power outage.
Bare Development, Inc has developed a complete program to make the switch to LED’s as easy as possible. From the easy to install retrofit kits, consulting and supplying back up generators, leasing programs that can structure a deal so there is nearly no out of pocket expenses. We even supply recycle boxes for your old bulbs. Simply put the old bulbs in one of our supplied boxes and seal, then call a toll free # and they will be picked up and sent to the recycling center.
At today’s electric rates one fixture can cost $13.00 or more a month to operate, multiply that by 24 (a typical station) and ten years (typical life expectancy) plus maintenance. You come up with about $30,000.00 to $40,000.00. Compare the cost of an LED conversion. With installation of the retrofit kit and annual cost of energy about $21.00 per fixture over a ten year period your cost would be approximately $5770.00. According to Industry experts almost all lighting will be LED in the near future.
When would NOW be a good time to upgrade to state of the art lighting?
Contact us today for a full evaluation:
Bare Development, Inc.
(708) 428-3273