business Energy Guide

You may wonder what you can do to make your business property more energy efficient. Let us give you some simplified tips as to how you can improve efficiency and reduce costs.

Alpha Energy Solutions (AES) has been working with power utility companies, such as Southern California Edison, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Pacific Gas & Electric, and San Diego Gas & Electric, participating in their energy efficiency rebate programs, such as Multifamily Energy Efficiency Rebate Program (MEERP), Express Efficiency Program, and Commercial Lighting Efficiency Offer (CLEO). AES has extensive experiences and expertise with rebate programs to help you save your maintenance cost by tailoring rebate programs to meet your needs. AES is engaged in various types of work performed on multifamily apartments, condominiums, mobile homes, high-rise buildings, hospitals and medical buildings, parking structures, school buildings, shopping malls, warehouses, and many retail stores. AES has partnership with Everlite Source, Inc. (www.everliteusa.com), and Prime America Wholesale, Inc., sharing expertise and resources to satisfy customers' needs. AES has three regional offices; the main office in Los Angeles, San Francisco branch office and San Diego branch office.

Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps (CFL’s )
Replace fluorescent tubes and magnetic ballasts with T-8 or T-5 tubes and electronic ballasts.
Replace warehouse and other high-bay lighting with HID lamps or high-bay fluorescent fixtures
Replace 8 foot linear lamps with two, 4 foot linear lamps, or replace four, 4 foot linear lamps with two, 4 foot linear lamps with reflectors (delamping) to save energy
Install occupancy sensors in general usage areas so that lights turn on only when the area is occupied and turn off automatically when the area is not.
Painting your walls and ceilings in lighter colors will help reflect the light better.
Clean bulbs, fixtures and diffusers regularly to maintain maximum illumination levels.
Install photocells or timers on outdoor lighting systems so they only operate from dusk to dawn.
Replace your incandescent exit signs with LED exit signs.
Install motion detector lights.