Lighting Upgrades

Upgrading your lighting technology is a very effective method to reduce your power needs, reduce your environmental impact, and save money! Vancouver Renewable Energy offers lighting upgrade services to significantly reduce your power usage. As we are a BC Hydro Powersmart Alliance member, you’ll be eligible to apply for any of the potentially eligible BC Hydro incentives.

Vancouver Renewable Energy is a BC Hydro Alliance Member

We can evaluate your current lighting implementation and propose and install new lighting solutions. Project simple pay-back periods of less than 3 years are very common. In addition to saving money newer lighting technologies typically last much longer, provide a better quality of light, and use materials having a lower environment impact (e.g. less mercury content.)

Linear fluorescent lighting

Linear Fluorescent Lighting

In some cases a lighting upgrade is necessary. For example, T12 fluorescent lighting with magnetic ballasts have been phased out through provincial legislation and soon will become harder to find in stores. This type of linear fluorescent lighting is very common in parkades, or underground parking lots. Upgrading T12 fluorescent lighting to T8 offers numerous benefits, including:

Significant cost savings, as many linear fluorescent lighting remain on 24 hours a day. The savings quickly add up!
Help reduce the building’s environment impact – they use less mercury and energy
Improved light quality.
Reduced maintenance costs – the lamps last longer.
The significant annual cost savings that can help fund a renewable energy production project (like solar hot water or photovoltaics.)
Lighting upgrade projects typically have a smaller project costs that can usually fit within a building’s current yearly operating budget.

Solar powered wireless motion or light sensors

It’s common to find areas with lights on 24 hours a day but the light is actually only required for a few minutes of the day. Or areas where lights are on even though the area is fully lit with sunlight. Why not install solar powered wireless motion and light sensors? Significant power savings can be achieved by automatically turning off the lights when they are unnecessary. Vancouver Renewable Energy can provide wireless motion sensors or photosensors that are solar powered! If the lights being turned off are of high wattage then the payback times can be quite quick.