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How Can Sports Lighting Reduce Your Carbon Footprint?

CO2 is emitted by a power plant when generating the total kilowatt hours used by your lighting system. Generating one kilowatt hour of electricity in the United States emits an average of 1.583 lbs of CO2. One metric ton of CO2 equals 2,204.6 lbs.

How much CO2 your sports-lighting system uses depends on your light levels, hours of use, number of fixtures, and number of fields. A sports-lighting system that maintains your desired light level while using fewer fixtures requires less energy to operate, reduces the amount of energy needed from the power plant, and also decreases the amount of resulting CO2 emissions.

For the city of Temecula, California, designing an environmentally sensitive sports park required advanced technologies like Musco’s Light-Structure Green™, which uses as much as 40 percent fewer fixtures to maintain target light levels compared to typical floodlighting technology. Temecula also chose Control-Link®, an automated on/off scheduling system, for its sports lighting to help further reduce wasted energy and additional CO2 emissions by turning lights on only when needed.

Compared to typical floodlighting technology, the Light-Structure Green system reduces Temecula’s CO2 emissions by more than 6500 metric tons over the next 25 years. That’s the equivalent of taking 885 cars off the road for one year. To read more about Temecula’s success story click here.