Are you in the grocery or warehouse business and need the proper lighting for your cold storage? As a business owner or manager you realize the importance of being cost-effective, that’s why you need to choose the most energy-efficient option. The following are a few key points to consider regarding why LED is the most energy-efficient lighting option for your cold storage.
LED lighting for cold storage
As you are well aware, finding lighting options that perform well in cold environments has always been a challenge. Lighting options such as HID and fluorescent have not historically been known to be suitable for cold environments. However, LED technology thrives in colder temperatures and does not face the same challenges as other technologies. In terms of energy efficiency, LED lights consume less energy than their predecessors, resulting in immediate reductions in operating costs. The primary reason LED technology uses so much less electricity than other technologies is that it produces light differently.
How Older Technologies Waste Light
Other technologies produce light through various methods. While incandescent and HID pass electricity through a filament, fluorescent lights produce light by ionizing mercury vapor. Both methods require extreme heat for the electrons in their atoms to become excited enough to produce light, wasting nearly 90% of the electricity they consume, making them incredibly inefficient. They have a higher probability of failure, are limited to a 360-degree beam spread, resulting in wasted light, and lack control capability.
How LED is more energy-efficient
On the other hand, LED produces light using electroluminescence. This process doesn’t use a filament and creates little heat, instead relying on a property of semiconductors to generate light. The methods used to produce light are not the only component of efficiency; equally important is the distribution of light. LEDs can be directional, maximizing lighting while minimizing energy usage. Of course, the fact that LEDs don’t waste energy by creating or relying on excess heat is also part of what makes them so safe, as well as why they don’t need the large, fragile glass bulbs full of toxic gases that make handling other lighting sources more difficult.
Here at Relumination, we aim to help you discover more energy-efficient ways to illuminate your business. If you have any questions about cold storage lighting, please contact us today!
