er Future for Parking The garage lighting retrofits will cut energy consumption in
half, to approximately 2.2 million kWh annually, which at cur- rent rates translates into a savings of about $175,000 per
year.All lighting areas of the garages will in some way be replaced with low-energy fixtures, including stairwells, elevator lobbies and roof tops. Asked about the project,
Peter Lange, Executive Direc- tor of Transportation Services for Texas A&M University, said, “We chose induction over LED for several reasons. “The first was length of
said. “They have provided test fixtures [and] photometric analy- sis and have been very responsive to all of our questions.” The parking garages lighting project investment of $2 mil-
life. Induction has a proven track record, whereas LED is a new technology with very few installations that are older than three years.We think LED will be a proven technology at some point in the future but felt it was not at a maturity level that we were comfortable with. “The second big factor was price. If we had chosen LED, we
would have been able to retrofit about two and a half of our garages.With induction, we are able to retrofit all five garages. “Plus, the ECO team has been easy to work with,” Lange
Induction lighting produces a very efficient white light that, when compared with the existing HPS lamps, performs heroically.
lion was made available to Texas A&M through a low-interest loan from the State Energy Conservation Office. The loan will be repaid over 10 years using energy savings achieved as a result of the project. Also, ECO Parking and Sylvania provided the university with a 10-year parts warranty on the induc- tion lamps and generators. Texas A&M’s Transporta-
tion Services and departments of Utilities & Energy Manage- ment, Facilities Planning &
Construction, and Facilities Services, and the Smart Energy Cam- pus Initiative all have roles in completing the campus-wide con- servation project.
June A. Broughton, Marketing Manager of Transportation Services at Texas A&M University, can be reached at
june@tamu.edu.
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