Texas supermarket using GE LED lighting

Texas United supermarket group's 47 stores in the low temperature and medium temperature refrigerated display shelves full of GE Ecomagination products, LED lighting products, provided by the GE subsidiary Lumination. Lumination said, United supermarket hopes to improve the appearance of the display of light at the same time, reduce the energy consumption of refrigerated racks, our products can meet this requirement. United eliminated a total of 3600 cabinets of traditional T8 and T12 fluorescent lamps, which will be replaced by GE LED lighting products. United expects that this will save $633 thousand a year in electricity and maintenance costs, of which $369 thousand, maintenance costs $264 thousand. It is expected that by 1.8 years of energy savings and the rated life of up to 50000 hours of free maintenance costs that can recover costs. In addition, LED can provide a uniform color, which is 3 times the level of fluorescent light. GE LED lights can be turned off at night, no impact on its performance and life. For United supermarket, this means that the cooler operation time, from the use of fluorescent tubes for 24 hours, reduced to a LED of 16 hours. It's important for us to cut energy costs, and it's also important to be environmentally friendly, says United. It is reported that, after the use of LED lighting, 47 supermarkets to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 2 million 900 thousand pounds per year, which is equivalent to planting a tree of 364 acres, or an annual reduction of 257 cars. GE said that so far, there are more than 20 customers set up LED refrigerated display cabinet lighting system, the top 10 U.S. retail stores / supermarkets, there are 8 are testing or using the system.

Source: China Semiconductor Lighting Network