LED lights promise significant energy savings.....but not if you leave them on during the day! Seems an obvious statement but that's exactly what the filling station in the photo is doing despite what seems to be a light sensing device below the fitting which should automatically switch off the lights when dawn arrives. Presumably there is a manual override allowing staff to manually switch off the automatic controls or the controls are wrongly set...all of which begs the question should staff have full edit control of the building management system (BMS)

On a more positive note, the LED canopy lights do a great job at night proving that LED lights seemed to have made the jump from neon replacement light lines for decorative purposes to full blown task lighting. There are now LED fluorescent replacements from the likes of Argonic. There are LED halogen replacements from the likes of AlphaLED and there are LED metal halide replacements from the likes of Philips. Despite a generally higher initial capital cost, lifetime costs should be much lower due to lower energy consumption (depending on light source to be replaced) which fits nicely with the company Corporate Social Responsibility commitments (if linked to automatic controls) cost savings should result from not only lower energy costs but lower maintenance costs too due the long life characteristics of LED.