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| · | Installation of PowerSavertm technology causes minimal disruption to existing street lighting infrastructure. With an installed base of well over 100 million streetlights worldwide, minimizing the loss of investment in physical assets (by outright replacement) and personnel skills assets (through the installation of technology requiring new skills to manage and maintain) is an important and realistic factor. |
| · | Increasing employment through local retrofitting and fixture assembly operations, and local manufacturing of components such as equipment trays and current-limiting inductors, makes implementation of PowerSavertm technology attractive to political leaders at every level. |
| · | Reducing HID illumination where and when appropriate in Outdoor Stationary lighting reduces light pollution and the disappearance of “dark skies,” a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly important to consumers. |
| · | PowerSavertm technology reduces global warming emissions. Using less electricity reduces the emissions produced by gas, oil and coal-fired generators. This means that energy saved with PowerSavertm technology can be qualified to earn carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, providing a source of revenue for the customer. In addition to energy cost savings, this provides a powerful new financial incentive for customers to install these products, while measurably contributing to the reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions. |
| · | As Industrial and Outdoor Stationary HID lighting is generally a fixed electrical load in most economic sectors, energy conservation here frees up base-load power plant capacity for other current and future needs. For example saving base-load capacity during nighttime hours frees up capacity for electric and plug-in hybrid cars |