Faith Deliverance Church

Miami Valley Lighting installs new energy efficient parking lot lighting at Faith Deliverance Church

Solution	Church/Place of worship
Industry	Church
Project Scope	Removed 7 – 400 watt HPS flood lamps and 2 – 250 watt HPS cobra fixtures. Installed 3 – 110 watt, 2 – 157 watt and 2 – 309 watt LED fixtures.
Benefits/Savings	34% reduction in energy usage. Improved color rendering rendering (white LED light vs. yellow HPS light.)

  When Faith Deliverance Church purchased their building and property at 450 Turner Road from another church, officials took a second look at the current outdoor lighting. “We needed lights, and the existing lights were old,” said Church Deacon Terry Cochran. “I wanted new lights.” The old lights were High Pressure Sodium (HPS) fixtures that provided yellowish light and did not illuminate all of the property. Cochran said because there were “areas of darkness” the outdated lighting created safety concerns for the congregation during evening events.

Energy-Efficient Solution

Miami Valley Lighting suggested that Light Emitting Diode (LED) parking lot fixtures would be more energy efficient and cast a brighter light over a wider area – providing energy savings and reducing safety issues. Nine inefficient HPS fixtures were replaced with seven new LEDs that use 34% less energy. “When things are fine nobody notices, but when things go wrong, everybody complains,” Cochran said. Since the installation of the new lighting, there have not been any complaints.