3 Rules of Thumb for Outdoor LED Lights for Quick Service Restaurants

Posted by Luke Fishback

We work with a lot of quick service restaurant owners, and one of the hot topics of conversation these days is outdoor LED lights. While lighting typically represents less than 15 percent of a company’s overall electric bill, we support good practices across the board, as long as they also make good financial sense.

3 Rules of Thumb for Indoor LED Lights in Quick Service Restaurants

Posted by Luke Fishback

One of the questions we get asked a lot by our quick service restaurant customers is:

What kind of indoor lighting offers the best energy-efficiency and financial return for my business?

Upstream Watt Multiplier (1 Watt Saved > 1 Watt Generated)

Posted by Luke Fishback

In the world of “clean energy,” projects fall into one of two categories: increasing clean energy generation (supply) or decreasing energy consumption (demand). The energy generation side is developing technologies aimed at displacing the power plants we already have and building additional capacity for our ever-increasing energy appetites. Cool. On the other side, there are those of us focusing on more efficiently using the energy produced, no matter what the source. In this post, I’ll describe why these aren’t just two sides of the same coin.

What about the non-monetary value of CFLs?

Posted by Luke Fishback

In response to some great feedback, I’d like to address the non-monetary aspect of energy efficiency steps like CFL replacement. There are compelling non-monetary cases for pursuing energy efficiency. Efficiency can be justified by any number of valid reasons like: combatting climate change, increasing energy independence, protecting land from mining or drilling, human / plant / animal health, etc.