5 Steps To Lower Your Business’ Electric Bill

4. Natural lighting Natural lighting is free! Studies have soon that work associates are more productive in natural lighting environments. Using more natural lighting will mean using less electric lighting plus it will increase your labor productivity. If you have green teams then ask them to come up with ideas for how to increase natural lighting in your building. A complimentary path is to hire a space design expert. For a very reasonable fee a space design expert can offer ideas and even designs for rearranging workstations to allow for more natural lighting. Also explore light tubes. This old idea of creating a path for natural lighting to enter from a ceiling into the interior of a building has become a modern day best practice that offers a tremendous return on investment by reducing the need for interior electric lighting. 5. Get smart The cost of sensors has pummeled. Building control systems costs have fallen while their capacity has increased. Today most building owners can monitor and control their building’s operations from their smart phones! The Internet Of Things is now a cost competitive path for making your building and business more efficient. If you have lighted stairwells then install a smart system to dim these lights to code-approved levels until someone enters the stairwell which will trigger a return to full lighting. This same system works for other spaces not always occupied like bathrooms or storage areas. California’s new Net Zero Energy building codes now mandate automated natural lighting.  Automated natural lighting uses building sensors to calibrate the amount of electric lighting needed compared to available natural lighting. When natural lighting is abundant these automatic systems reduce or turn off electric lighting. These systems are a financial no-brainer for every business. After you see how easy it is to cut electricity costs through smart building systems you will want to retain an expert in smart building technologies to harvest the growing number of cost-effective smart building technologies that deliver everyday cost-savings.  Summary Energy efficiency is now one of the easiest and fastest ways for a business to increase profits. The above five best practices are just a few of the growing number of paths available to every business that will deliver sustained savings for ten or more years.

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