Residential Solar Energy Efficiency

A Consumer's Guide : Get Your Power from the Sun
Are you thinking about buying a solar electric system for your home or business? If so, this booklet provides some basic information that can help you. Solar electric systems, which are also called photovoltaic or PV systems, are reliable and pollution-free. They make use of a renewable source of energy - the sun. And PV systems for homes and businesses are becoming more
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Commercial Energy Efficiency

Powering Your Business Efficiently
The BizSavers program offers cash incentives and technical assistance to small businesses, commercial, and industrial electric customers to help you reduce energy consumption and costs.

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Reducing Utility Costs, through Cost Effective Lighting Solutions

T5 LIGHTING ADAPTER TECHNOLOGY

Simple, Cost Effective, Sustainable

Sizes of Fluorescent Bulbs

	T12 Fluorescent Tube 1 1/2" in diameter Typically 34-40 watts per tube
	T8 Fluorescent Tube 1" in diameter Typically 32 watts per tube
	T5 Fluorescent Tube 5/8" in diameter Typically 28 watts per tube Our Retrofit Adapter burns the 28 watt bulb at 18 watts

T12
Unavailable since July 2010, T12 ballasts are obsolete. Options are:

• Change ballast and bulbs our to T8
• All new T8 Fixtures
• All new T5 Fixtures
• LED Tubes
• Convert T12 & T8 fixtures to T5 Adapters Reusing existing fixtures

Why Retrofit with T5 Adapters?

• A T5 bulb is too short to fit into an existing fluorescent fixture. The adapter takes up that space by clipping into where the bulb clips into the fixture and then the new T5 bulb clips into the adapter.

• Reduce your carbon footprint
  
  
• LEED Certification: Lighting points. Make your building "green." Will "brown" buildings be as attractive to buyers/tenants?
  
  
• Sustainable: Old fixtures won't go into landfills

T5 Retrofit Adapter Features

• Integrated design, special super-thin ballast inside.
  
  
• MET/UL Approved
  
  
• Advanced Ballast Technology = Perfect Performance
  
  
• Warm Start: Electronic control gear units with warm start procedures can increase lamp service life up to 50%. (Our tests show that more than 1,000,000 switching cycles in 15 second intervals could not destroy the electrodes.)
  
  
• Safety Switch-Off in case of abnormal lamp operation, defective lamp electrodes, over-current, over-voltage & critical operation at the end of service life of the lamp.
  
  
• Cut Off Technology: This prevents permanent heating current during the operation of electrodes, which will result in less load to the electrodes and avoid additional power loss.

Lumen Example

• T8
  2750 - Initial Lumens
  2550 - Mean Lumens X .87 ballast factor
  2250 - Operating lumens - heat builds up in a closed fixture 5-10% depreciation
  2000 - Effective Lumens
  
  
• T5
  2900 Initial Lumens
  2750 Mean Lumens X .99 ballast factor
  2750 Operating Lumens - no heat factor in fixture
  2750 Effective Lumens