Travelling back in time and tracing the work of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell is quite intriguing, especially when visiting the exhibits housed at the Grenfell Interpretation Centre in St. Anthony on Newfoundland and Labrador’s Great Northern Peninsula.
With assistance from the takeCHARGE Business Efficiency Program, lighting fixtures at the Society’s museum have been replaced with LED bulbs. The new bulbs have a much longer life than the traditional incandescent bulbs which makes things easier for staff. Some of the original lighting fixtures were hard to reach due to the high ceiling and scaffolding was needed to change bulbs.
The LED bulbs also offer the appropriate lighting levels needed to showcase displays in the interpretation centre, not to mention substantial energy and cost savings.
“We knew that there were more efficient lights that we could be using at the centre so we reached out to takeCHARGE to discuss our options,” says Cynthia Randell, Manager of the Grenfell Historical Society. “We are now saving about 50 percent on our annual museum lighting costs and we no longer need to keep changing hard- to- reach bulbs on a regular basis. We couldn’t be happier.”
The total energy savings for this project are about 16,524 kWh per year.