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CASE STUDY – Sikorsky Global Helicopters Reduces Lighting Costs by 49%

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of military and commercial helicopters.

CHALLENGE

Sikorsky engineers in Coatesville, PA were seeking an improved lighting system using the fewest total watts and the fewest number of lamps and
ballasts.

SOLUTION

Aelux developed a 2xT8 lamp Direct Indirect office fixture solution that substantially reduced glare and increased savings over an alternative 4 lamp fixture under consideration and a fluorescent solution for their industrial area. The Aelux solution provided improved lighting, substantially reduced maintenance costs, and will result in an annual energy reduction of nearly 240,000  kilowatt  hours. This reduction provides for a 240 ton annual reduction in carbon emissions, the equivalent of removing 41 cars from the roads or planting more than 5,626 trees.

CASE STUDY – Lighting Improvement Pays for Itself in Less than Five Months at Solo Cup

CHALLENGE

Solo Cup, a global manufacturer of food and beverage single-use products, wanted to reduce their six figure annual lighting energy costs for their Hempstead, MD Distribution Center.

Facility managers were also concerned about the potential disruption of lighting renovations on the M-F 24 hour operations of the center.

SOLUTION

Aelux developed a lamp and sensor retrofit solution that nearly halved wattage and reduced annual lighting energy costs by 69%. The significant savings covered the cost of the improvements in less than five months. Aelux managed the 1,000,000+ sf facility installation so that it was completed in 3 weeks with minimal disruption to operations.

Solo’s Hempstead Distribution Center energy savings also result more than a 2,500 ton annual reduction in carbon emissions, the equivalent of removing 430 cars from the roads or planting more than 60,000 trees.