We'd like to wish all our customers a Happy New Year!  Thanks for making 2011 a very good year for us in spite of an overall economic downturn.  We appreciate your business!

Now that Fall is upon us it is a great time for getting exterior lighting repairs (perhaps that were put off in the long days of summer) completed and your facility or subdivision well lit.  It is currently getting darker earlier each day it is important to keep your exterior security lights up and running.

Going green is the current trend in lighting. With the earth’s non-renewable sources of energy quickly getting depleted, practically everyone has taken steps to do their part in conserving energy. There are the little things people can do, such as turning off the lights when they’re not in use or keeping the air conditioner off unless absolutely necessary. Then there are the bigger things, like the use of solar energy to power certain things and switching from halogen lamps to compact fluorescent PAR style light bulbs.

Kelvin Temperature in Lighting

Kelvin symbolized by K is a unit of measurement used to measure temperature. In lighting it refers to the color temperature of light sources. Temperatures of light sources and fixtures above 5000 K seen as bluish white is referred to as “cool” while yellowish to reddish light with a temperature below 3,000 K are called “warm”.

Lighting Dimmers – Offering You a Range of Benefits

Have you considered getting lighting dimmers installed in your office or home? There are too many benefits to using these devices for you to not consider getting them. These are devices that are meant for changing the brightness of light that a light bulb gives out by reducing parts of the AC voltage that the bulb uses. However, they offer a whole range of benefits that can be very important for you.

We recently installed some LED tube lights at a commercial building in downtown Boise, Idaho.   This was the first project that we had used LED tube lights.

The 2011 Idaho Power rebates have changed significantly over 2010. In many ways the rebates are better now than they have ever been before.

Below are some highlights of changes.

• Rebates for replacing 400 watt metal halide fixtures with 6 lamp T8s are down from $120 in 2010 to $110 in 2011.