Colorado firm's revolutionary financing plan makes LED retrofits profitable for customers

DENVER - July 29, 2015 - PRLog -- The one drawback to Skyline Energy Solutions proposal for installing energy-efficient lighting is that at first glance it seems too good to be true. With guarantees that most customers will receive money back immediately through reduction of their utility bills. How? With the savings that is redirected from the utility bill facilities become green, they save energy, they save money. It’s a win-win situation.

The key is a creative financing plan, the Green Lease Program, which enables facility owners to pay for energy-related upgrades through reduced utility/labor/material bills over an extended contract period. With the Green Lease plan, the client pays nothing up front and is guaranteed savings immediately and throughout the contract, which can run 5 to 7 years, and then own the equipment at the end of the term. Skyline Energy Solutions makes their fee from the Green Lease which is funded by the energy savings. They are offering a positive cash-flow contract clients pay nothing in advance and get cash back to you bottom line from day one.  This can be accomplished because Skyline is not just replacing bulbs; they are doing a custom redesign of your entire lighting system, and are using the latest technology to do so.

Retrofitting is tailored to the customer’s specific needs with long-lasting, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly LED fixtures. The lights generate virtually no heat and last significantly longer than incandescent, fluorescent and halogen bulbs, lowering air-conditioning and maintenance costs along with wattage.

Energy savings varies with the facility. But LED lights have an average life of 50,000 to 100,000 hours, about 50 times longer than equivalent incandescent bulbs, and require 70 to 80 percent less power. The energy consuming ballasts needed to regulate fluorescent fixtures is eliminated. Total energy saving is only one part of the savings that you see with additional cost savings is realized through reducing maintenance and labor costs.

Interest in LED lighting is growing due to increased emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, energy conservation and advances in the technology. Several universities have undertaken LED retrofits, notably Notre Dame, which reported energy savings of 81 percent. Among those solutions is to use of state-of-the- art sensors such as PIR, ultrasonic motion detectors that intensify or dim the lights in a room or hallway according to traffic through the area. That cannot be done with fluorescent lights, which are not dimmable without negative effect. Among other advantages of LEDs: They contain no hazardous mercury, cadmium or lead; operate on low voltage current; and emit no UV or ultraviolet rays, thus not attracting bugs or dust and remaining maintenance free.

To draw a comparison, a 4-inch PL plug-in compact fluorescent tube, commonly sold in home supply stores. It emits light in 360 degrees, but only half of it projects from the fixture. Skyline’s LED version of the same plug-in has light emitting diodes along one side, eliminating the waste of energy. Fluorescent light lighting requires 13 watts per bulb, but it’s also working with ballasts that use another 5 watts, fluorescent requires 18 watts per bulb versus 5 to 6 watts per bulb with LED lighting.

The difference becomes even starker when you compare the LED’s richer, truer quality of light, void of annoying flicker and buzz. Skyline Energy Solutions is putting technology into creating innovative products, and it’s evolving quickly and they can incorporate a variety of lighting panels and bulbs of various sizes into its lighting solutions, available in an array of colors. Being very small, LEDs can be easily integrated into all sorts of objects, furniture and architecture as colorful accents or hidden light sources. Offering the possibility for every company and facility in America to become energy-efficient and green, to aid the environment, to save money and create jobs in their local economy, all with NO MONEY OUT OF POCKET!

About Skyline Energy Solutions

Skyline Energy Solutions, based in Fort Collins Colorado, specializes in LED lighting retrofits of industrial, commercial and institutional facilities.  Having strong partnerships with top LED manufactures such as GE Lighting, Philips Lighting and Toshiba Lighting as well as experienced energy engineers and energy tax specialists, no project is too big. Currently we are expanding across the United States, Canada and Mexico and are actively searching for energy sales consultants to join the Skyline team.

For additional information, visit www.SkylineEnergySolutions.com