Bright Green Future For Commercial Lighting

The death knell has at last sounded for incandescent and inefficient lighting as LED technology finally starts to deliver what it had promised for so long. And flourescent, once the great magenta-tinged hope, may well be in decline too.
Incandescent light bulbs are incredibly energy inefficient and generate more heat than light – bad for both the bill-payer and the environment.

Now, it seems that the factors that made LED’s non-viable, such as initial cost and colour temperature, have been finally been overcome, and look set to make LED lighting a complete no-brainer for architects, designers, and product specifiers for commercial installations.

One recent example of big business copping-on to this can be seen where Nualight, a green technology produced by Irish company Nualight, a leader in LED Lighting for food retail merchandising, is to be implemented across Tesco stores in the UK and USA. According to the manufacturers:

“The Nualight technology will allow a number of cost and energy saving benefits. By replacing environmentally unfriendly fluorescent lighting with LED lighting, based on light emitting diodes (LEDs), energy consumption is reduced in the refrigerated glass doors displays by more than 60%.”

Nualight, based in Cork, is the only company in the world that focuses exclusively on LED Lighting for refrigerated display illumination for global food retail.

I wrote a post about the benefits of LED lighting recently- click here to read it.