What if Starbucks switched to LED Lighting?
In a recurring post we plan to do, analyzing the impact of large chain stores on the environment, I thought I’d start off with analyzing how much energy and money my local Starbucks could save by switching over to LED lighting. They have a ton “recessed lights” as well as track lights that could all be retro-fitted with LED spotlight bulbs.
In Summary:
56 bulbs running at 17 hours a day (6am - 11pm):
Total Cost to convert to LED:$5,620
1st Year Savings in Electricity and Bulb Costs: $3372.14
Total Time to Payback: 1.7 years
Total Savings over 8 Years (LED’s last 50,000 hours): $26,347.56
Number of Years until LED’s need to be replaced: 8.1
Total CO2 emissions reduced over 8.1 years: 200,880 lbs.
What if ALL the Starbucks Stores in the US (11,434) switched over to LED lighting:
They would save $38,557,099.98 PER YEAR in electricity and bulb costs and reduce CO2 emissions by about 285,000,000 lbs. PER YEAR.
Anyone work at Starbucks? What an impact Starbucks could have both on the world and on their bottom line…
