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New Lighting Scheme for Kenwood Distribution Facility Resulted in Excess of 80% Overall Annual Lighting Cost Savings.
Since the 1950s, Kenwood has been famous the world over for innovation, quality and great design with many of their products, in particular the Kenwood Chef kitchen machine, surviving as much-loved kitchen heirlooms for the next generation.
Ecolighting was contacted to evaluate and recommend a suitable lighting scheme to improve the existing working environment at their 3PL run Distribution facility at Magna Park, Leicestershire.
The existing scheme consisted mainly of old 400w Metal Halide Low bay fittings and was replaced with a 4x54w fluorescent fitting with occupancy and daylight presence detection.
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Both management and staff have been impressed with the increase in light levels as well as the financial savings the new lighting scheme is delivering.
Financially the new scheme provided a return on investment in less than 1.9 years. Ongoing maintenance of the new system will greatly reduce the impact on the operation as lamp life is expected to last over 11 years.
| Existing | Replacement | Saving | |
| Number of Lights | 267 | 267 | |
| Annual KWh Consumption | 636479 | 83545 | 552934 87% |
| Annual Lighting Cost | £52093 | £6955 | £45138 87% |
| Annual CO2 Consumption | 260956 | 34253 | 226703 87% |
