National Cut Your Energy Costs Day: Upgrade to Carbon8Lighting

Occasions like National Cut Your Energy Costs Day can seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things. But whether you’re installing sensors or turning down the heating at home, we encourage and support all efforts to reduce energy costs. In honour of the day, let’s all in the spirit of saving energy, cutting costs, and making positive change for not only short term benefits, but also long term sustainability. 

We will be exploring National Cut Your Energy Costs Day, its importance and how LED upgrades can help achieve lower energy bills and consumption. Secondly, we will be exploring our LED range which each are fantastic upgrades for industrial, sports, or floodlighting systems. Lastly, we will cover smart controls which will allow for further savings, ensuring light is only on when it is needed.

Upgrade Your Knowledge

Originating in Canada, National Cut Your Energy Costs Day is taking on global status as countries and individuals embrace the concept.

The 10th January event serves as a reminder to consider all the ways that we can save energy, from walking to the shop, to large commercial, energy saving infrastructure upgrades.

In support of this, we thought that it may be helpful to highlight a few of the ways in which we can assist the campaign.

So, let’s start with the obvious big hitter, kick out that old lighting and let the LED lighting in. Not only will you be helping to reduce global emissions, but you will most likely get your work light levels back to where they need to be, improving safety and productivity. And on top of this, your new lighting will most likely pay for itself quickly and you will then see the additional benefit of reduced operating costs. Everyone’s a winner!

With Carbon8Lighting light fittings, you also get up to ten years of peace of mind with our comprehensive onsite service package, supplied as standard on all Carbon8Lighting commercial light fittings. This means that once you have your new lighting, you can rest assured that there will be no further costs to consider, except the much lower energy cost that you will be paying. Another win.

And to top this off, Carbon8Lighting offers the option to control your lighting with a variety of sensor-based systems, from simple detection sensors all the way up to interlinked systems that not only control your lighting but will carry out emergency lighting monitoring and testing. The savings from a well-planned sensor-controlled lighting system can be substantial. Win number three.

Upgrade to LED

Upgrading to ultra-efficient LED lighting is one of the simplest, most effective ways to permanently cut energy costs across sports, agricultural, commercial and municipal facilities.

Traditional fittings can lock you into high consumption, frequent maintenance, and avoidable downtime. By contrast, modern LED systems, such as those available from Carbon8Lighting, typically deliver substantial energy savings, longer lifetimes, improved lighting quality and better compliance with current regulations – all while reducing CO₂ emissions and improving safety for staff and visitors. When reviewing your 2026 energy strategy, it is the ideal time to assess where traditional lighting is holding your site back and explore a targeted LED upgrade that pays back through reduced running costs, reduced maintenance, and more reliable illumination in critical areas such as warehouses, arenas, yards and car parks.

Discus Gen 4 High Bay

• Market leading, ultra-efficient
• Tailored to large areas
• Dimmable options available
• Up to 188 lumens per Watt
• IP 65, IK08
  
• 7 year premier care warranty plus 3 year advanced replacement
  

Athlima Sports Floodlight

• Precision optics for outstanding light control and light cut-off
• Power adjustable ensures perfect light output level
• Up to 160 lumens per Watt
• IP65, IK09
• 7 year premier care warranty

GlowFly LED High Bay

• Unbeatable return on investment
• Choice of beam angles and wattages
• Compatible with sensor systems
• Up to 160 lumens per Watt
• IP42, IK10
• 2 year on-site warranty plus 5 year advanced replacement

Discus Floodlight

• Unique optics
• Outstanding light control and light cut-off and several output options
• Up to 160 lumens per Watt
  
• IP65, IK09
• 7 year premier care warranty

Upgrade to Smart Controls

Sensors ensure that lights are only on when they are needed. Reducing energy costs on a large scale.

Cucumber motion sensors

• Equipped with lens and ultra-slim bezel
• External light sensor for accurate light measuring
• Supports presence and absence detection
• Flexible in different environments
• Complete control: includes lux-switching capabilities and a master override function with a run-down timer
• Adjustable sensitivity settings
• DALI dimming functionality
• App controlled
• 7 year premier care warranty

Contact us

Lighting specialists at Carbon8Lighting will provide a lighting audit, design, and return on investment calculation free-of-charge to help you kick-start your energy cost savings.