After personnel and real estate, utility costs are typically an organization’s third highest expense. so reducing energy consumption can be a highly effective means for cutting costs.

Connexion Energy Solutions has been helping Chicago area businesses save up to 60 Percent on their utility bills while delivering light quality improvements through intelligent lighting designs. Typical lighting upgrade paybacks can range from 1 to 3 years. You can use your yearly savings to pay for the lighting project investment, as well as benefit from EPAct 2005* tax deductions and local utility incentives.

The benefits of energy efficient lighting upgrades include:

• Decreased energy bills
• Increased worker productivity
• Reduction in heat loads
• Reduction in glare and eye strain
• Reduction in yearly maintenance
• Simplified maintenance inventory
• Increased lumens
• Reduction in lamp disposal costs
• Longer luminosity life
• Take advantage of natural daylighting
• Federal, State, and/or Local Incentives

*About EPAct 2005:
Federal assistance is available per the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings Tax Deduction is a provision in EPACT 2005 which allows building owners or tenants to write off the cost of upgrading a building's existing lighting or other building systems for more energy efficient systems, capped at $1.80 per square foot. If you are only upgrading one system, such as lighting, the tax deduction is capped at $0.60/SF, and the actual amount of the deduction is determined by the reduction below the maximum allowable lighting power density in ASHRAE 90.1-2001. If you'd like to know more about this tax deduction, go here. http://www.lightingtaxdeduction.org/tax_deduction.html

The Energy Independence Act of 2007 (EISA) recently extended this tax deduction for qualifying projects completed before January 1, 2014.