A lighting upgrade modernizes Las Vegas’
historic El Cortez Hotel and Casino
In 2005, PCG Worldwide gave the El Cortez Hotel in Las Vegas an extensive lighting upgrade to improve the facility’s light and reduce energy costs while maintaining the building’s old-fashioned Las Vegas ambience. The facility’s outdated lighting system offered many opportunities for cost and light level improvement and an upgraded system ended up improving light levels, standardizing the lighting throughout the facility and reducing energy consumption and costs by as much as 40% relative to the less efficient system previously in place.
Project Scope
Conversion of existing T12 lamps and magnetic ballasts, incandescent lighting, and low pressure sodium lighting throughout the hotel, casino and garages to a system involving more efficient T8 fluorescent, T5 fluorescent and compact fluorescent lamps driven by electronic ballasts to improve light levels and reduce energy costs and maintenance concerns.
Results
- Financial Incentives Award - An $18,000 SureBet Business Incentive from Nevada Power for reducing electricity load during peak hours
- Estimated Energy Savings - 340 kW and annual energy reduction of over 1.6 million kWH
- Project Payback Period - 1.62 years