Walmart Saves until 59% of energetic consumption with technology LED of GE

Walmart was pioneering in the use of systems LED in the retail surroundings. Although with GE have wide antecedents of collaboration, this is the most important purchase of lighting LED of GE that Walmart has realizar to date.

Walmart.

Walmart Has announced recently his plan to purchase lamps LED of efficient consumption for the ceilings of the new shops of United States, centres of Asia and Latin America, and local Asda in the United Kingdom. The new lamps will use 40% less than power that the sources of lighting used previously in the shops and will allow to progress with the aim to reduce 20% the kilowatt-hour (kWh) to give power to the buildings of Walmart in the world for the year 2020.

This is the most important purchase of lighting LED of GE that Walmart has realizar to date, and the most recent example of the leadership of Walmart and GE to find and expand innovative solutions of lighting with efficient consumption of power.

“Have worked to find and expand the solutions of lighting LED with efficient consumption of power, profitable and of high quality, and with the current work with GE, are opening the way to do of this solution the majority election of the retail industry”, declared Doug McMillon, president and executive director of Walmart Stores, Inc.

“The lighting LED has turned into integral part of the model of energetic efficiency for our shops and represents a fundamental paper to attain our global aims of sustainability. This factor is so important like the fact that the savings of the energetic cost derived of these innovations will help us to keep the low prices that expect our customers of us”.

Supermarket with lighting LED.

Taking into account that the lighting of the main sector of sales represents roughly 90% of the total consumption in lighting of each building, this implementation will reduce the energetic consumption by shop in more than 5% in United States only. The lamps LED have an useful life more prolonged that the traditional lamps and also offer significant savings in the costs of maintenance.

The installation of the new lighting LED of GE in the ceilings has begun in Asda, the unit of businesses of Walmart in the United Kingdom. In 2014 only, Walmart and GE foresee the following energetic savings in lighting and new shops in comparison with the previous lamps:

•  Brazil: 30 remodelings of shops; 41% of energetic saving.
•  Centroamérica: 10 new shops, 54% to 59% of energetic saving.
•  China: 24 new shops, 16 remodelings of shops; 42% of energetic saving.
•  Mexico: 37 new shops, 45% of energetic saving.
•  United Kingdom: 10 new shops, 45% to 51% of energetic saving.
•  United States: 30 new shops, 15% of energetic saving.

Walmart And GE.

“Have boarded a long and successful relation with Walmart, increasing our together environingingmental efforts”, affirmed Jeff Immelt, president and executive director of GE.

“Leader in the research of the energetic efficiency of the retail industry, the approach centred in the awareness on the energetic consumption of Walmart allows to the company attain a substantial reduction of costs of electricity. We value our relation on a long-term basis with Walmart and us enorgullece work with them to reduce the environingingmental impact.”

Walmart And GE have wide antecedents of collaboration to develop products of lighting that satisfy the needs of Walmart. Walmart Was pioneering in the use of systems LED in the retail surroundings and was one of the first in adopting the panels LED in 2003. In 2005, Walmart worked with GE to install what considers the first important deployment of cameras frigoríficas LED. Besides, the parkings of the shops Walmart in United States and the foreigner were the first of the industry in changing to lamps LED.

Expects that the change to the lighting LED in ceilings in United States allow an energetic saving of 340,000 kilowatts-hour by shop, equivalents to more than 24 505 € in saving by year in each shop (calculated to 7,3 cents by kWh1). With 200 shops Walmart new that will adopt the new lighting LED of GE for ceilings in the next two years, this equivale to an energetic saving total of 620 million kWh in the next 10 years, savings that Walmart wait traspasar to his customers in his low prices every day.

These total savings of power expected during the next ten years equivalen to delete 327 360 tonnes of broadcasts of carbon dioxide, the annual broadcasts of gas invernadero of more than 68 000 automoviles, or the consumption of power of almost 30 000American homes during a year.

Inner of the supermarket.

The decision to install lighting LED of GE arises of a pilot program in the first supercentro Walmart entirely lit with LED in South Euclid, Ohio, that was inaugurated in October of 2013. This program allowed that the company evaluated the quality and the efficiency of the lights of GE and determined the performance on the investment in LED. In the shops will stand out different technologies of lighting of GE, with the use stood out of the luminarias Lumination™ series IS in ceilings. These lamps also are part of the strategy Ecomagination of GE, the commitment of the company with the technological solutions that save money and reduce the impact in the environingingment.

This increase in the installations of lighting LED in shops Walmart of all the world backs the aims of greater energetic efficiency of the company. Another example of this is the fact that Walmart has implemented a program to replace the current fluorescent lamps T5 with LED in all his network of centres of distribution. This effort, combined with the installation of pumps of circulation of liquid more efficient for some systems of refrigeration, carried to a reduction of more than 30 million kWh and savings of more than 1,4 million euros. It foresees that the complete adaptation of LED in the network of centres of distribution finalise in 2016.