Lighting can be responsible for up to 50% of energy costs.  The ResourceSmart Best Practice Guide to Lighting is a step-by-step guide to improving energy efficiency in lighting systems. 

It provides basic information on lighting and outlines opportunities for improving the operation and performance of equipment, delivering cost savings for business.

Good lighting does more than just illuminate an area.  It can help business:

• reduce running costs
• improve the working environment
• improve safety
• improve aesthetics
• improve colour rendering
• reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The ResourceSmart Best Practice Guide to Lighting has been designed to lead decision makers and service providers through changes to lighting systems to help deliver best practice solutions to business.

The guide can help determine the best level, colour and lighting technology for business and suggests a process to achieve best practice including:

• determining lighting requirements
• auditing existing lights
• ranking options
• implementing preferred option(s)
• assessing the effectiveness of improvement.

There are many opportunities for cost-effective retrofits to an existing lighting system.  In fact, it is possible to increase lighting levels and use less energy if the most efficient technology and practices are used.