| According to experts, energy efficient retrofit lighting is | | | | illumination for your home and office and less energy |
| one of the biggest untapped sources of energy. They | | | | to run your machines at the same speed, energy |
| say that going the energy efficient way is as significant | | | | efficiency savings is not difficult to achieve. Retrofit |
| as discovering a new inexhaustible source of energy | | | | lighting is one of the easiest, least expensive and least |
| to tap into, rather than to merely conserve. | | | | destructive means of creating more energy for future |
| This point reemphasizes the amount of savings the | | | | use by saving it, rather than drilling newer and |
| country can make by undertaking large scale retrofit | | | | expensive power plants. The idea is to reduce |
| lighting projects. New buildings must be built in a | | | | demand through efficiency rather than to increase |
| smarter way to take advantage of energy efficient | | | | supply by spending more resources. |
| lighting applications and existing buildings must be | | | | You can conserve energy by turning down the heat |
| retrofitted. If all the buildings in United States were to | | | | and putting on a sweater to fight the cold. There are |
| use retrofit lighting it is possible to make a saving of | | | | several other behavioral changes that you can bring |
| almost $33 billion in a single year. That is as significant | | | | about to save energy. But that is conservation, not |
| as generating power worth $33 billion in a year. | | | | efficiency. Energy efficiency is made a reality through |
| The huge potential of energy efficiency is ignored in | | | | techniques such as retrofit lighting. The biggest |
| the pursuit of alternate energy sources. The truth is | | | | advantage of adopting this approach is that we don't |
| that energy efficiency through retrofitting is not given | | | | have to sacrifice comfort to conserve. While doing |
| due importance as a source of energy and remains | | | | less with using less is an admirable approach to |
| largely untapped. But the efficiency that can be | | | | conserving energy, isn't it a lot better to do the same |
| brought about by means like retrofit lighting has | | | | or even more with less energy? In short, by retrofitting, |
| astounding potential to reduce dependence on | | | | you can have it all, it is almost as though you have |
| electricity. | | | | access to a new source of energy. |
| The concept is very simple - waste less energy than | | | | Obama calls efficiency "the cheapest, cleanest, fastest |
| you normally would during the course of the day. If you | | | | energy source." Through retrofit lighting, you can save |
| can consume less energy to get the same heat for | | | | at least 75% in energy bills. |
| your shower, less energy to get the same amount of | | | | |