GE Lighting's online lighting audit tool is helping institutions and businesses save significant dollars on energy bills. The GE Lighting Auditor, called GELA, calculates lighting usage, and then reports more energy-efficient options.

For a class science project, sixth-graders from Immaculate Heart Academy in Tucson, Ariz., used the energy auditor to study energy usage at their school as well as for the Biosphere 2 Center at Columbia University's Arizona campus.

The class recommended a lighting retrofit for Biosphere 2 that is expected to save several hundred thousand dollars in energy costs over the life of newly installed lamps. The students also discovered an estimated $150 annual lighting energy savings opportunity per classroom — a savings of $22,500 over the life of the lamps.

The online auditor allows users to log every existing light bulb in a school or other buildings. The resulting audit provides an instant summary of how much energy is currently used, how much energy could be saved and recommends energy-efficient lighting solutions. The auditor is available free.

The version of GELA for schools is available at www.gelighting.com/gelauditor/schools; for businesses, it's at www.gelighting.com/gelauditor/commercial.

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