Texas-Sized Savings: United Supermarket Uses GE Lumination LED Refrigerated Display Lighting to Slash Energy Costs
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June 24, 2008... Texas-based United Supermarkets, LLC, has retrofitted low- and medium-temperature refrigerated display cases in all of its 47 stores with a GE ecomagination product – a light-emitting diode (LED) solution from Lumination, a GE Consumer & Industrial business.

The Lumination LED Refrigerated Display Lighting solution replaces United Supermarket's traditional T12 fluorescent lamps and T8 fluorescent lamps. In all, United retrofitted more than 3,600 doors in its reach-in door merchandisers with the GE LED solution. United expects to save more than $633,000 annually in energy and maintenance savings ($369,000 in energy savings and $264,000 in maintenance savings).

"United Supermarkets wanted to lower energy costs in its refrigerated coolers while improving the look of its product facings," says Philip Fritz, product manager - display lighting, Lumination. "By replacing existing fluorescent lighting with GE's efficient, long-life LED Refrigerated Display Lighting Solution, United Supermarkets is realizing both objectives."

The expected payback is 1.8 years through energy savings and many years of virtually maintenance-free service with a rated life of up to 50,000 hours. The LEDs also provide uniform color and up to three times the light-level uniformity of fluorescent lamps.



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Media Contact: David Schuellerman, 216.266.9702

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