New Holiday Tree Lights Save Energy and Money

From Ralph Palmer, Physical Plant: KSC has adopted a new LED setup for the holiday tree that is on Main Street. The LED lights use 0.75 amps (90 W). For about 300 hours of lighting time (4 p.m. to midnight, now through December 31), the total cost for electricity will be $3.16.

The old setup, using incandescent lights, used 98 amps (11,760 W). Last year the same amount of holiday lighting time cost $412.78.

Cost savings: $409.62, energy savings: 3,521 kWh!

Photo: Robin Dutcher