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What does the scale of your company’s greenhouse gas emissions look like? The Environmental Protection Agency offers a nifty tool to help you visualize your impact on the environment.<\/p>\n
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Global climate change is an increasingly serious concern for all of us. National leaders are working together to find solutions and alternatives to these issues, though progress is not always easy to see. As individuals and corporations, we can take the initiative to make an impact in our own spheres of influence to realize immediate results.<\/p>\n
First, it helps to understand and visualize your current impact on the environment. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has created a neat calculator that estimates your carbon dioxide emissions and translates them from abstract measurements to concrete equivalencies the average person can understand. We’ve included a sample scenario below to help you use the calculator.<\/p>\n
This is a good way to truly understand the scale of your individual contribution to climate change. Then, we can move on to setting significant and achievable goals based on this estimate.<\/p>\n
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Here is a typical scenario for our customers:
Assume we have 20 traditional metal-halide street lights in a parking lot that run 10 hours per day, every day of the year.<\/p>\n
A typical metal-halide bulb in a parking lot application will consume 458 watts (W) per hour for 10 hours, or 4,580 watt hours (Wh) per day. The common unit of measurement for electricity usage is kilowatt hours (kWh), so we take 4,580 Wh and divide it by 1,000 to get 4.58 kWh per day. This means that one metal-halide light bulb operating for 10 hours a day is consuming 4.58 kWh of electricity per day.<\/p>\n
Since we have 20 lights, we multiply 4.58 kWh times 20, resulting in 91.6 kWh<\/strong> of energy consumption in one day. <\/strong>To calculate energy consumption for one year, we multiply 91.6 kWh times 365 days and get 33,434 kWh per year<\/strong> for the scenario.<\/p>\n