Brooklyn schools slash $4k in expenses monthly by installing LED bulbs

As Brooklyn looks to take its school buildings off of the grid by going solar, school officials are touting smaller changes that have resulted in lower energy costs for the district. Swapping out the old bulbs throughout the district’s campus for low energy LEDs has lowered monthly energy costs by $4,000. Rather than contracting with a third party such as Eversource, which offers programs to upgrade lighting and other infrastructure to improve energy efficiency, the campus’s facilities director set to changing out each of the 5,000 bulbs in the school buildings in-house. It’s why Brooklyn is already reaping the financial benefits. The utility takes a fee upfront to perform the service, but municipalities and other customers save on their electric bills in the long run.