LEDs brighten up offices at Dept. of Energy and Climate Change
Luxmagazine reports that, the government's energy department has replaced the lighting in its London headquarters building with efficient LEDs which it says are indeed cutting electricity consumption and that have also improved brightness. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) pulled out the fluorescent T5 lighting that had been illuminating the office spaces at 3 Whitehall Place and swapped Philips LEDs into around 1,300 fittings across 8 floors. 'Compared to retrofits in most comparable buildings, which tend to use relatively inefficient T8 tubes, the energy savings are slightly lower,' DECC said in its own case study . 'However they are very significant.' T5 fluorescents and LEDs offer similar energy saving advantages. Facilities managers often opt for T5s because they cost less. But DECC said the LEDs are saving energy for among other reasons because they include a 'localised control system' that turns lights off ...