It can be as easy as flipping a switch.

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TEAM UP! FOR LIGHTING SAVINGS

• It can be as easy as flipping a switch.

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Why should we care?

• For the environment
• For the bottom line

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Why should we care?

• For the environment
• Turning off a light can switch on big
  environmental gains.

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Why should we care?

• For the environment
• Turning off a light can switch on big
  savings.

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What can we do?

• Housekeeping
• Lights left on in unoccupied areas
• Dirty lamps
• 2. Low-cost opportunities
• Overlit areas
• 3. Retrofits
• Obsolete lighting equipment

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What can we do?

• 1. Housekeeping Turn off lights in unoccupied
  areas
• Incandescent lights that arent needed.
• Fluorescent lights when theyll be off
  for at least 15 minutes.
• High-intensity discharge (HID) lights
  when theyll be off for at least an hour.

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What can we do?

• Housekeeping (contd)
• Clean dirty lamps, lenses and light-reflecting
  surfaces
• Dust and grease can reduce lighting by as much as
  30 percent.
• Clean fixtures every two years at least (more
  often in greasy, dusty or smoky places,
  especially when theyre part of an HVAC system).

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What can we do?

• 2. Low-cost opportunities Reduce light in
  overlit areas
• Look at places like storage areas,
  hallways and meeting rooms that dont need to be
  lit all the time.

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What can we do?

• 3. Retrofits Upgrade obsolete lighting
  equipment
• Can we save energy and money?

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How can we do it?

• We have the people
• We have the tools

http//oee.nrcan.gc.ca/industrial
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• Thank you
• Together we can make it happen.
• Its good for the environment.
• Its good for our bottom line.