Illinois Facilities Improving Lighting

Tom Adamson / CC

State-owned facilities across Illinois are upgrading their building lighting in an effort to save millions of dollars and millions of kilowatt hours.  The facilities have received $6.4 million in lighting upgrades through the Free Lights Program, and it is estimated to save taxpayers $16 million over the life of the initiative. In addition, the modernization of these facilities will result in nearly 13 million kilowatt hours of electricity saved.  In addition, Illinois will be able to defer the maintenance costs of not needing to pay for new lights.  These projects were completed by leveraging ratepayer dollars from the Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard Fund.