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UPB and our energy supplier, Rocky Mountain Power, are doing a lighting and compressed air project together.  We are in the process of putting in 233 new T-8 light fixtures replacing the current T-12’s in our Finishing building. T-8 lighting fixtures use 20% less energy and are 5% brighter.

We are also re-plumbing all of our air to be more efficient. Our compressed air system will run in a loop at lower pressure with much bigger storage tanks. Rocky Mountain estimates that we’ll save 275 kWh on this project. Compressed air is one of the biggest expenses in the manufacturing process. This project will be complete in the first quarter of 2010 and should cut our carbon footprint significantly.  

Rocky Mountain Power projects that the ROI on these projects is just 7 years. We take our goal of reducing our carbon footprint 33% by 2017 very seriously and this just gets us one step closer to reaching that goal.