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United supermarket uses LED display lighting to slash energy costs

[2008-7-25]

Tag : Color LED Display

Texas-based United Supermarkets, LLC, hasretrofitted low- and medium-temperature refrigerated display casesin all of its 47 stores with a GE ecomagination product alight-emitting diode (LED) solution from Lumination, a GE Consumer& Industrial business.

The Lumination LED Refrigerated Display Lighting solution replacesUnited Supermarket's traditional T12 fluorescent lamps and T8fluorescent lamps. In all, United retrofitted more than 3,600 doorsin its reach-in door merchandisers with the GE LED solution. Unitedexpects to save more than $633,000 annually in energy andmaintenance savings ($369,000 in energy savings and $264,000 inmaintenance savings).

"United Supermarkets wanted to lower energy costs in itsrefrigerated coolers while improving the look of its productfacings," says Philip Fritz, product manager - display lighting,Lumination. "By replacing existing fluorescent lighting with GE'sefficient, long-life LED Refrigerated Display Lighting Solution,United Supermarkets is realizing both objectives."

The expected payback is 1.8 years through energy savings and manyyears of virtually maintenance-free service with a rated life of upto 50,000 hours. The LEDs also provide uniform color and up tothree times the light-level uniformity of fluorescent lamps.


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