SmartWatt Energy, an energy efficiency firm headquartered in Albany, NY, has helped Stewart’s Shops, a family and employee-owned chain of convenience stores in Upstate New York for saving nearly $78,000 per year in total lighting costs after a lighting retrofit installed at their corporate headquarters in Saratoga Springs, NY. This project will pay for itself in just 16 months.

SmartWatt Energy conducted a construction-grade energy audit of the facility, including: offices, loading docks, laboratories, storage and freezer space, then engineered a plan to replace the existing lighting system with energy-efficient T-8 and T-5 fluorescent lighting in most of the spaces and to install LED lighting in all of the freezer space.

After the installation, Stewart’s Shops will save 783,481 kWh of electricity per year, which is equivalent to removing 1,175,222 pounds of Carbon Dioxide from the environment.
 
SmartWatt Energy has awarded Stewart’s Shop a Sustainability Award for their dedication to improving energy-efficient operations.