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A large industrial facility’s municipal bill went from a projected R4,5 million a year to a mere R193,000 simply by replacing outdated fluorescent lights with Pure Light LED lights fitted with built-in LMS. According to Referro Systems, replacing outdated lighting can have far-reaching benefits.

Adrian van Wyk Managing Director at Referro Systems

Adrian van Wyk, Managing Director at Referro Systems.

Over the past decade, more companies have realised the benefits of retrofitting their industrial facilities’ lighting solutions. “Not only does it hold more environmental benefits, as they significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but these LED lights also have extended working life and of course, slashes electricity bills and overhead costs,” notes Adrian van Wyk, Managing Director of Referro Systems.

Through its partnership with Pure Light LED Products as an official distributor, Referro Systems can realise significant energy savings for its clients. “Prior to the Pure Light installation, they were consuming 351 kW for lighting. Following the installation, consumption is estimated to dropped to 62 kW,” notes van Wyk.

The World Economic Forum’s Transforming Energy Demand report released earlier this year highlights that retrofitting existing buildings could reduce their energy intensity by almost 40% and that creating more energy efficient buildings offers the potential to reduce global energy demand by 12%.

According to Sean Smith, CEO of Pure Light, few realise that lighting of warehouse and logistics facilities contributes as much as 70% to a business’ electricity bill. “With the latest increases in electricity charges in South Africa, this is particularly relevant,” he notes.

Retrofitting or upgrading to Pure Light’s advanced LED luminaires will guarantee significant energy savings while providing improved LUX intensity, the company explains. It also contributes to improved productivity, a better working environment and enhanced worker safety while complying with occupational health and safety legislation.

“Customers that opt for an integrated Light Management System can also expect a further 15% saving in cost on their monthly electricity account – a system that optimises when and where lighting is required due to time of day, season, and personnel occupation, switching off unnecessary lighting when it is not needed.

Smith notes that retrofitting from fluorescent lights to LED lights also holds significant benefits for those businesses considering a switch to solar. “Changing to a Pure Light installation can save literally hundreds of thousands of rands on a solar installation capital cost, due to a reduced demand requirement from panels, inverters and batteries,” he adds.

In both green and brownfield projects, system designers implement the Pure Light products in standard software programs to optimise the positioning and type of luminaires required, ensuring maximum lighting efficiency for a given process or operation.

Smith highlights that Pure Light has also developed innovative service offerings in which premises are occupied by tenants who want the cost benefits that Pure Light brings but face a landlord who shies away from the capital expenditure.

“We can offer a Pure Light installation in the premises occupied by the tenant at no upfront capital cost to the landlord. The tenant, who is responsible for the electricity bill, can enter into a service agreement with us for either a fixed monthly fee or a percentage of the saving achieved by switching to our energy efficient systems,” he says,

Smith says that despite the benefits to customers of local manufacturing, translating to high quality, advanced technology products that have been designed for local conditions and the fact that this offers flexible service options, there are still those who focus solely on the cheapest options, that often are not the low-cost options they initially appear to be.

“The lighting market suffers, like many others, with a deluge of imported poor quality, cheap luminaires that promise quality performance, but seldom performs,” he notes. However, Pure Light products are locally certified at SANAS-accredited facilities, ensuring customer peace of mind.

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