ECOMAGINATION Source: Industry Week 04 April 2006 GE Manufacturing Plans Will Cut Energy Costs As part of its ecominagination program, over the next two years, 148 GE industrial manufacturing plants and warehouses will undergo lighting retrofits that could reduce annual lighting energy costs at each facility by 50%. The plants and warehouses are located worldwide, with [read more...]

We must implement environmentally sound practices? - a lofty and expensive-sounding directive, to say the least. Yet being ecologically friendly and financially prudent need not be mutually exclusive. Jim Grady, who established LighTec Inc. of Merrimack, N.H., in 1990, had a vision 17 years ago that many New Hampshire business owners have only become aware of [read more...]

What so great about Compact Fluorescents? The Flicker is Gone That’s right, no more flicker. All fluorescents that use magnetic ballasts cycle at 60 Hz. This causes headaches in many people. But now, compact fluorescents use new electronic ballasts, which cycle > 5000 Hz. Bottom line, NO MORE HEADACHES. The Color is Better In the past, fluorescents have produced [read more...]

NHBB Receives New Environment Friendly Lighting System As part of its commitment to excellence in environmental performance, New Hampshire Ball Bearings, Inc. (NHBB) has partnered with Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH) in the completion of an innovative lighting system at the Astro Division located in Laconia, New Hampshire. This new lighting system designed and constructed [read more...]

Senate Bill Seeks to Extend Commercial Buildings Deduction 2012, Expand Cap Posted March 19, 2007 The Energy Efficiency Incentives Act of 2007 (S.822) and a companion bill were recently introduced and co-sponsored in the Senate [read more...]