The challenge
Willow Station Shopping Center runs parking-lot, storefront, decorative, and wall-pack lighting long hours every day. The center’s older high-wattage fixtures — 1000W and 400W area lights, dated recessed cans, and metal-halide wall packs — were expensive to power and maintain, and due for a durable, high-efficiency upgrade.
The solution
NRG Incentives replaced 126 lamps and fixtures across the center — swapping 1000W and 400W area lights for 150W LED, 52W cans for 13W, decorative bulbs, and 150W metal-halide wall packs for 50W LED — all backed by a 10-year manufacturer warranty and coordinated with PG&E on-bill financing. Installation ran on a tight 3–6 week schedule around center operations.
The results
The retrofit delivers $28,640.55 in annual energy savings against a $67,479.60 project cost, recovering the investment in roughly 2.36 years, then compounding into net savings while the new lighting keeps working — with brighter, more uniform light across the parking lot, storefronts, and common areas.