Lighting as a service program cuts DC’s energy spend by 70%

Global 3PL syncreon was looking to upgrade to energy-efficient LED lighting at a DC in Germany, but was put off by the costs. Then it learned of an innovative program offered by an Irish startup. Founded in 2015, Dublin-based UrbanVolt is a company whose work benefits society at large—that helps the world’s largest energy users, such as warehouses and other large industrial facilitie. Its programs include the Light as a Service offering, in which UrbanVolt outfits its customers’ facilities with LED lights at no charge to the user and then operates and maintains the systems for a specified term. The company, whose client list includes several U.S. operations, gets paid by sharing the savings on the customer’s energy bills.