29th January 2018
It is obvious to most people that a change from older lighting technologies, like Halogen and fluorescent to LED, can save money and help reduce their Carbon Footprint
For decades Japanese companies have long used the gentle technique of Kaizen to achieve their business goals and achieve and maintain levels of excellence.
Kaizen is best summarised by the familiar but powerful idiom:
“A journey of 1000 miles must begin with the first step.”
Looking at our world environmentally, it is obvious to most people that a change from older lighting technologies, like Halogen and fluorescent to LED, can save money and help reduce their carbon footprint, but people ask the question “how will a relatively small saving of £3,000 in my business really make a positive impact on climate change?”
I genuinely believe that our business is making a positive contribution to a big problem but when you consider that most days almost 100,000 airplanes are in flight, that there are ¼ of a billion cars in the US you have to question if any of us are really making all that great an impact?
I’m no data analyst but I believe in numbers and I had a look at our own business “numbers” from the last 12 months trading.
Meteor Lite provides large corporate, commercial and industrial organisations throughout Ireland and the UK with SMART LED lighting systems - systems designed to save money, increase performance and give them a greater degree of control.
By the end of 2017, we had delivered on over 70 projects for clients in retail, logistics, leisure, manufacturing, administration and telephony, all of which combined to generate approximate savings of 5,082,878 kWhs.
All in, that’s 2,754,920kg of CO2 savings.
One large manufacturing client, with over 200+ staff enjoyed savings in their first year of 650,000kwh – a figure which represents their energy costs for almost 8 years.
A flight from Belfast to London uses just under 10,000kg of CO2.
At that rate Meteor Lite, through its activities last year, will have made a saving equivalent to 275.5 of those flights.
That’s not a bad start to a long journey.