Extraordinary energy savings achieved in the Rayburn House Office Building Cafeteria

Posted by Ginny Skalski

LED lighting is continuing to work its way into Washington, DC. Cree LED lighting was recently installed in the Rayburn House Office Building Cafeteria, a move that can result in big energy savings.

Just how big? Well, the incandescent lights that were previously used in the cafeteria consumed more than 6,000 Watts of energy. The new Cree LED lights along with advanced building controls consume a total of about 1,200 Watts. That’s an 80 percent energy savings. Even better, these energy savings can be achieved while improving the quality of light in the cafeteria.

The Rayburn project included replacing the existing fixtures with 46 Cree LR24 Architectural Lay-in LED fixtures and 51 Cree LR6-DR650 LED Downlights.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was on hand today to tout the energy savings. Check out this Twitpic from Tuesday’s press conference by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz:

In addition to the energy benefits of the LED lights, the extremely long life (they’re designed to last 50,000 hours) of the fixtures can provides year of virtually maintenance free operation. Seriously, these lights could last nearly 20 years running 10 hours a day, 260 days a year. This can help avoid the economic cost of lamp replacements. That also can mean less waste in our landfills. It could take about 1,200 incandescent bulbs to last as long as the LED lights and nearly 350 toxic mercury containing fluorescent lamps.

Here’s hoping the federal government continues to see the light on energy-efficient LED lighting.

One Response to “Extraordinary energy savings achieved in the Rayburn House Office Building Cafeteria”

1. Malcolm Zurin says:

   July 25, 2011 at 12:22 pm

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