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9/19/2017

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Hard to believe that 25 years ago, back in 1992, I presented a break-through project to Macy*s New York Department store. A project that has been a secret all these years. Macy*s was my largest client since 1981 and together we were saving Money, Energy, Earth, and thousands of barrels of oil for America. The implementation of energy saving compact fluorescent lights a decade before they were available in stores and redesigned valance lighting provide tremendous savings. We also addressed inefficient operations in store restaurants and air cooling systems with stores from New York to Florida. However, this presentation was different... Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) was being presented for all the Exit signs in every store that were on 24 hours a day, everyday.

Many people said that I was years ahead of everyone else when it came to saving energy, but this time my presentation was too far ahead. No one at Macy*s heard or knew about LEDs and I wanted to Retro-Fit EXIT Signs that was an emergency system that could not fail. If they did, the Fire Department would levy costly fines. Yet, the facts that I determined out weighed all concerns... First, LEDs had a long history and the best that we see today was yet to come.

Nevertheless, LEDs were discovered back in 1907 by British experimenter H. J. Round at Marconi Labs. A Russian inventor named Oleg Losev made the LED in 1927. Rubin Braunstein working at Radio Corporation of America used different elements in 1957, and in 1962,
 Biard and Pittman of Texas Instruments developed an efficient emission of infrared light.

More importantly was the fact that at the time of my presentation, exit signs employed not one, but two various sizes of 40 watt incandescent light bulbs.This was in case one bulb failed, the second bulb would still provide guidance to the fire exits. This incandescent 40 watt bulbs did two things well, they burned out every 3 months or so and they used electricity around the clock 365 days a year.

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LED retro-fit kits for Exit Signs in North East Macy*s stores replaced the two 40 watt bulbs with a total of 4 watts of LEDs. A high-polished reflector was place in the back of the LEDs to maintain proper lumen output, (light level). The expected life of the LEDs was 60 years. Eventually Macy*s changed to new modern looking Exit Signs with LEDs built in, but for some of the old Exit Boxes still operating in the back storage rooms of a few stores, those LEDs have yet to burn out.

The numbers I presented for savings on the Macy*s electric bills, labor to change bulbs, and the cost to buy new bulbs was the catalyst that started the project in earnest. With an average of 300 Exit Boxes per store, we saw a reduction from 24,000 watts to only 1,200 watts per hour, 24/7. Payback on Macy*s investment to retro-fit all Exit Sign boxes was around 8 months!

So after being years ahead of all other corporations in saving energy and our environment, Macy*s never bragged about what they accomplished so many years ago by being one of the first to change incandescent bulbs in Exit Boxes to LEDs. This well kept secret is now revealed and credit must go to Macy*s Operation Managers who had the foresight to make a change for the better. All I did was present the facts, they made the call against the status quo of wasteful building operations.

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As of 2017, LED lights for the home are as cheap as a comparable compact fluorescent bulb with the same light level. However, the LEDs last longer and they are  more energy efficient along with fewer environmental concerns. In addition, the efficiency of LEDs is increasing. I expect to see a 2 watt LED bulb replacing a 75 watt incandescent bulb very soon.


​Bill Lauto, at GoingTrueGreen.com
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No Good FREE Energy Audits

9/6/2017

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We all heard the old platitudes, "You get what you pay for" and "nothing is really free." Yet, these adages did not apply to the Free Energy Audits my department did when I was a manager at an electric utility company almost 30 years ago. Our energy saving audits were truly free, we didn't sell anything, and they were done to build a better customer relationship and public relations.

Today the utility companies hire outside companies to conduct these so called "free" energy audits. The objective is to point out the most profitable making energy saving steps. Profitable for the auditing company who wants you to sign an agreement to pay them to do all the work to save yourself (the homeowner) some energy and money.

However, the audits are far from complete and lack comprehension since the entire audit fails to cover every possibility in all areas of the house. These companies will "WOW" you by bringing in exhaust fans and set them up in your front door to create negative pressure inside the house. This is very impressive and is telling if the house has leaks and infiltration of outside air. Well, no fooling Sherlock, all houses have leaks. The KEY is to know how to evaluate the situation and find where all the infiltration is actually occurring so you can consider a specific fix!


These companies come in and to make money they have to get a signed contract from you to allow them to install more insulation, a new heating system, or a new central air conditioner. The contract will have you making payments for 15 to 20 years and your payback would be in 21 years. (I am not pulling numbers from thin air, these are numbers from friends who had these audits done and the numbers were atrocious while ignoring a multitude of actions that are more affordable with paybacks of only a couple of years or a few months.) 

When I managed the Energy Saving department for the utility that I worked for, we recommended steps based on feasibility, payback, and we were not there looking to implement the recommendations! We left the "When, Who, and How," up to the homeowners.

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Today, my company under Going True Green does a complete Sustainability Energy Audit from Basement to Attic. We cover appliances in the kitchen and we will talk health from kitchen countertops to the water you drink. We talk data on how to lower water bills, lawn and garden bills, electric, gas, oil, and propane bills. We explain why new windows do not save enough on the energy bills to justify changing old windows, but we cite the real reasons why you may consider changing them.

We point out approximate payback times for each suggestion we make and we charge a fee. Yes, our Going True Green Sustainability Audits are not free. Let them be on site or done by Skype or FaceTime, our fee is based on the time it takes to conduct a complete audit. Your payback on our fee will be less than one year when you implement between one and three energy saving actions we recommended. And we leave the implementations up to you. Hire who you trust, negotiate your best price, and do the work when the time is feasible for you.

Now, if you have any questions or concerns when dealing with a contractor and you are hearing a different story from them that will cost you more money than originally anticipated, we are still available to help. Let it be to confirm facts or squash out a bunch of lies. We will give you the verbiage and questions to ask that will put any contractor's ability to "spin the truth" into a tailspin.

I will never tell friends to have one of these Free energy audits again, they are not like the energy audits I conducted back at the start and if you had one done already, don't hesitate to contact us with questions before signing any contract. We will be happy to help with free info and my free blogs! However, we will need to charge if you hire us to conduct one of our sustainability house audits, because we cover every detail and we are very proud of our work, which does in fact have great value. Thank you.

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