Bluestone works for Mack Technologies to install one of the largest LED retrofits in New England
Bluestone Energy’s Ryan Blair was recently interviewed for an article in the Worcester Business Journal about the recent retrofit of Mack Technologies distribution center with new LED lighting and controls.
From the article:
John Kovach, president of Mack Technologies, said his firm hired Bluestone Energy of Norwell to replace several thousand fluorescent bulbs with more-efficient LED fixtures.
Kovach said state and federal incentives cut the project’s cost significantly and made it possible to do it sooner than the company might have otherwise.
Big Savings
Kovach had been researching more efficient lighting, but he thought the cost of swapping out 2,600 bulbs would be prohibitive. He said he didn’t realize he could cut the cost of the investment by about 40 percent.
Through state and federal energy tax credits and a program with National Grid, Mack paid just over $200,000 for the total project instead of $325,000, Kovach said.
“We were kind of blown away by the information we came across in terms of the kind of energy savings we could realize and the impact to the environment,” he said. “We probably would have done (the project) sometime over next few years, but not as soon as we did with the incentives and Bluestone.”
Ryan Blair, president of Bluestone Energy, said heavy energy users pay into a fund through their electric bill that provides the incentives.
“This is not really grant money,” Blair said. “Mack Technologies pays into this fund every single month when they pay their electric bill.”
Blair said the project is the largest retrofit deployment of LED lighting in any manufacturing space in New England.
