LED significantly reduced maintenance costs become the biggest driving force

Wrote an article in the Wall Street journal recently, low maintenance costs are driving health care products like WAL-MART, GNC, Kaiser and other entertainment franchise companies use LED Lamps lighting transformation. LED has a long life can greatly reduce maintenance costs, thereby offset the high initial cost, so that the total cost and other light source flat. According to WAL-MART international design and construction of the person in charge of the Charles Zimmerman point of view, if the lamp pole height of 20-40 feet on the maintenance of lamps, the need for a dump truck and a professional electrician. Traditional lamps need to be replaced every two years, and LED lamp life of up to 10~12 years, thus saving the cost of maintenance of the most attractive.

A parking lot is located in the state of Kansas in 2009 the U.S. Department of energy for WAL-MART research, found that the energy saving lamp installed LED 10 years was not enough to offset the high initial cost, and the reduced maintenance costs is very alarming.

The analysis of the parking lot lighting renovation costs for the U.S. Department of energy, the total cost of visible with LED lights for $220396, the total cost of the traditional lamp $248134, LED lamp slightly advantages, mainly reflected in: maintenance costs from $54760 to $18400; the energy consumption decreased from $89884 to $55196, which reduced maintenance costs the biggest is 66.4%.