Sandia Casino Expects 75% Energy Drop with LED Lights, Solar ...
The resort, owned and operated by the Pueblo of Sandia, has replaced 400W and 175W metal halide bulbs with LED bulbs using 115W and 57W respectively. , a Qnuru retrofit of street and parking lot lights cut lighting-related energy consumption by 81 percent and achieved a 26-month ROI, and at New Mexico Highlands University a project in the physical education complex cut lighting-related energy... Noribachi’s previous installations through its Qnuru lighting division have included a retrofit at California car dealership LAcarGUY that cut lighting-related energy consumption by 80 percent and had a 27-month return on investment. In October, the 188,000-square-foot Diamond Jo Casino in Dubuque, Iowa replaced about 750 incandescent down lights with Cree LED lighting, which it expected to reduce maintenance costs by nearly $23,000 a year. Noribachi says the design (pictured) features a sleek black on black look, achieved in part through the use of mono-crystalline silicon – used in place of the far more ubiquitous poly-crystalline silicon. Sandia Resort & Casino in Albuquerque will consume about a quarter the energy in its parking lots through switching hundreds of gas discharge lamps to Noribachi LED bulbs, the two companies have said.