Wal-Mart Switches to LED Lights

Wal-Mart Stores is planning to fit LED lights in 650 new and renovated stores. The type of LED bulbs Wal-Mart will be using is the LRP-38 by Cree – designed to last up to 50,000 hours and consume 82% less energy than the type of lighting it’s replacing in Wal-Mart stores.

The company has stated that its goal is to double the amount of solar power it uses over the next 18 months as part of its Wal-Mart Project Impact, which aims to have refitted around 70% of its stores by 2012.