In an economy in which many businesses are downsizing; Insight Lighting is doing just the opposite–experiencing double digit growth over the past five years and expanding its production size and abilities. Insight's growth as a 20-year industry-leading lighting manufacturer is motivated by cost conscious businesses and governments to switch from traditional lighting to solid state (LED) lighting.
Insight Lighting, realizing that LED lighting would soon illuminate the commercial landscape, positioned itself for growth in this competitive industry. "Businesses, events and governments are quickly adapting in this economy to provide value, decrease expense and increase brightness," said Reed Powers, Insight Lighting Senior Vice President. "------Many years ago we first began developing designs and technology that would accommodate the switchover that we knew was ahead."
Insight's team has created products for high profile specialized projects such as providing the exterior green facade lighting for the global re-launch of the Holiday Inn brands, lighting for the signage at New York's Yankee Stadium and the luminaires that illuminated the luge track for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
In Dallas, Insight's Medley Products were used to bring the Park Seventeen Office Tower to life. Battelle Grande Ballroom in Columbus, Ohio was transformed from a bland space into a spectacular event center with the use of Insight's Medley RGB Color Changing Series. A variety of Insight's made in the USA products, Medley X RGB Color Changing Series and Masque products, were used for the Blue Cross Blue Shield building in Providence, Rhode Island, providing a new look for the national healthcare provider.
Many cities and government agencies are working to get projects, new and remodels, to incorporate LED exclusively. "We've seen a huge increase in designs focused on LED products, such was the case recently when we provided the illuminated wayfinding signage for the McCarran and Sky Harbor airports," said Powers.
According to the US Department of Energy website, making the switch to LEDs will reduce the electricity consumption by one-fourth and avoid 246 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emission over the next two decades. In addition, increased adoption of LEDs throughout cities over the sometime period could save the United States $120 billion in energy costs.
"We welcome this approaching conversion, it's better for the environment and will put a lot of Americans to work on a much needed change," said Powers.
For the average electric customer, 15 strings of LED lights turned on for six hours a day will cost less than two dollars a month. Meanwhile, running the same amount of traditional lights will add more than $40 dollars to your utility bill.
"We bought quite a few too this year, the LEDs, so that should help the budget out a little bit," said Brian Witucki.
The Witucki's use a combination of lights, but Brian said the extra $50 dollars he paid for electricity last December was worth it. "People stop when they're driving by...it's pretty cool."
Utility officials said another helpful tip to save money while still spreading some holiday cheer is to set your lights to a timer so that you can monitor energy use.
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