School System In Georgia Invests in LED Tube Lights

The Ware County School system agreed to upgrade more than 24,000 lighting fixtures to LED Tube lights. This would be the largest known K-12 grade public school lighting retrofit program. Located in Waycross, Georgia, Ware County School District encompasses ten individual schools, pre-K through 12th grade, that serve more than 5,000 students. The school system conducted a six-month pilot program incorporating LED tube lighting in several conference rooms prior to reaching an agreement to install LED lights throughout the system.

The arithmetic was simple- an estimated savings of $11.2 million dollars over the next nine years. In addition, the annual savings for Ware County Schools will pay for the installation cost within two years. They selected LED Tube lights from RedBird LED.The RedBird Cardinal LED Tube lights have an anticipated lifetime capacity of 15 to 20 years. “The money we save with maintenance and reduced energy costs can be applied to continual improvement of the quality of education we provide to our students as well as benefit the taxpayers who support our system,’’ Barrow said. 

Cardinal LED lighting provide one of the highest lumens/dollar and lumens/watt of any LED lighting fixture. The Cardinal LED tubes are a direct mechanical fit into standard fixtures, operating on any voltage ranging from 110 to 277 VAC, and do not require the fluorescent ballast. Cardinal LED Tube lights deliver 7,000 lumens of light, yet only draw 66 watts.

” RedBird LED is pleased that our Cardinal™ LED tube light has been selected for the major energy reduction project underway for the Ware County Schools,” said Jonathan Eppstein, President of RedBird LED. “Working closely with Etrenzik and IP-Utilinet, we were able to put together a system that offers state of the art performance and will save the district millions in their electricity bills over the next 10 years.”