Commercial LED Lighting Upgrades

YESS specialises in delivering energy-efficient commercial LED lighting upgrade services to South Australian businesses, with many installs delivered at a very low cost with the aid of the South Australian REPS Scheme commercial lighting rebates.

We will assess your existing lighting and recommend new LED lighting upgrades to suit your business requirements. We can also provide information on the benefits, energy savings, return on investments and payback periods. As part of your lighting upgrade and installation, existing lighting is safely recycled in an environmentally friendly way.

YESS will manage the discounting of the services through the Retailer Energy Productivity Scheme (REPS) program in South Australia, providing a cost and time-effective service for your business.

Commercial LED lighting upgrades warehouse

Why Switch to LED?

Reduce Lighting Energy Bills by up to 60%

LEDs are much more efficient than traditional incandescent bulbs, which means they use less electricity. This energy efficiency also translates into money savings for you, as you’ll see lower monthly energy bills.

Improve the Quality and Lifespan of Your Lighting

LEDs’ high efficiency and directional nature make them ideal for industrial uses. By emitting light in a specific direction, LEDs eliminate the need for diffusers and reflectors. As a result of this feature, LEDs are more efficient.

Less Energy
Emitted as Heat

LEDs don’t release heat in contrast to traditional bulbs, which emit a lot of heat. Not only is this a safety hazard, but it also wastes energy as most electricity is converted into heat rather than light.

Reduce
Maintenance Costs

An average LED light can last up to 50,000 hours, much longer than traditional incandescent bulbs. This extended product life means you won’t have to replace your bulbs often, saving you time and money.

Better for
the Environment

LEDs are also much safer than traditional bulbs as they don’t emit ultraviolet light, are free from harmful gasses, do not contain mercury, and carbon dioxide emissions are 90% lower than old halogen bulbs.

Improve Overall
Health of Staff

Employees benefit from LED lighting for various reasons, from eye fatigue to improved mental health and well-being. In addition, warm white LEDs can be used as adequate mood lighting because they create a relaxing atmosphere.

How Much Does It Cost?

We offer free site assessments to inspect your lighting, allowing us to provide you with a detailed no-obligatory quote and return on investment. There are many things that affect the dollar value of the quote. This depends on the business ANZSIC classification, the type of lighting, including the control gear of the ballast, and the space type in which the lights are situated (e.g., Retail, Workshop, Warehouse etc).

Small energy consumers:

Businesses that consume less than 160MWh per annum on their power bill are classified as small energy consumer businesses.

We can offer lighting upgrades to small energy consumers from $33 (inc. GST) per business address*.

Large energy consumers:

Businesses that consume greater than 160MWh per annum on their power bill are classified as large energy consumer businesses.

There is a minimum surcharge of $1.70 (inc. GST) per REPS credit for these types of businesses*

* Pending business classification and site inspection.

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What Lights Can You Upgrade

The types of products that fall under the scope of REPS include:

Globes

A-Bulb 5W
A-Bulb 7W-9W
BR 12W

Fluorescent tube lights

Commercial LED Lighting Upgrades - Tubes

T5 Fluorescent Tubes
T8 Fluorescent Tubes

Downlight & Shop Lights

Commercial LED Lighting Upgrades - Downlights

5W Downlight kit
Rectangular Shop Lights
Rounded Shop Lights

Battens

Regular Battens
Sensor Battens
Emergency Battens

High Bays

Highly Efficiency LED Highbays

PAR38 Floodlights

Commercial LED Lighting Upgrades - PAR38

Highly efficient PAR38 LED light bulbs

Floodlights

LED Floodlight
LED Slimline Floodlight

Panels

LED Panels 1200×600
LED Panels 1200×300
LED Panels 600×600

The REPS commercial LED lighting upgrades
are available for all kinds of businesses in South Australia

Water Efficient Showerheads

Through the Retailer Energy Productivity Scheme (REPS), YESS can also provide and install water-efficient showerheads for your business. We have a variety of designs to suit your business’ style.

YESS has upgraded showerheads for:

Hotels
Motels
Sporting Clubs
Gyms

Frequently Asked Questions

The South Australian Government created an obligatory Scheme that all energy retailers (AGL, Energy Australia, Origin etc.) must partake in. A quota or target is set for each energy retailer, and it is up to them to fund and complete energy-saving activities such as commercial LED lighting upgrades to meet these targets.

Companies such as YESS are here to provide that service on behalf of energy retailers. Essentially, we perform all the work and collect the necessary compliance evidence (photos, paperwork, and verification calls) that we then sell to the energy retailers as credits or rebates who submit the completed work to the government body (ESCOSA) that is overseeing the state scheme.

It is optional for businesses to participate in the scheme however, without participation, they are unable to access the credits.

Faulty fixtures or missing lights are unable to be upgraded if claiming the REPS Rebate. All light fixtures must be working on the day of your scheduled upgrade to be replaced under the REPS program. If a fitting has no working lights, it will not be upgraded because the program is designed to provide energy savings to the business. In the scenario where a light is missing or not working (not drawing power), then by YESS installing a light in its place, we would be increasing the energy consumption for that fitting, not reducing it.

As part of your initial assessment, your lighting upgrade consultant will help identify any areas the electrician will be unable to upgrade due to access issues or hazards. If you are unable to make the area safe and clear any obstacles, please advise us

This will all come down to the following:

The site is eligible, and we have all the necessary pre-install required documents (Electricity Bill, Signed Quote Acceptance etc.)
Product and Elevated Work Platform availability
Your availability
Our availability (we typically try to book a fortnight in advance, we can arrange to book ahead of this and may even be able to squeeze the customer in early if we have a free day due to a cancellation or if it is a smaller job we can slot in before or after another one).

GJs are complex and confusing for most customers, especially in the casual format in which these assessments take place. A GJ or gigajoule, simply put, is a unit of measurement used for quantifying energy. YESS are looking to save you energy, and every kilowatt we reduce for you with our LED lighting upgrade goes toward this gigajoule quantity.

Each business address is limited to 20,000GJs of energy savings. Anything in addition to this will be tackled outside of the scheme. YESS will often refer to GJ’s as a “Credit”

As above, “credit” is our lingo used to quantify the energy savings we can offer you.

REPS Activity
Terms and Conditions

ACTIVITY ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

(1) The existing lighting equipment must be in working order at time of the upgrade.
(2) The following Activities are excluded:
• New lighting installations undertaken as part of new work or refurbishments that require development approval under the Development Act 1993 or the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016.
• Task lighting installations such as portable lighting or desk lamps.
• Installing T5 adaptor kits or installing new lamps into existing T5 adaptor kit fittings.
(3) Where it can be demonstrated that the lamps being replaced have not previously been installed for the purposes of REPS, Activity CL1 can be delivered twice per premises, providing all other aspects of the specification are met.

Additional requirements where the recipient of the activity is a large energy-consuming customer.
The recipient of the activity must cause payment to the installer for the goods and services provided, with the minimum payment requirement being $1.70 (including GST) per normalised REPS credits as calculated in accordance with this specification.

INSTALLED PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS

(1) The new lighting equipment must come with a minimum 2 years replacement warranty, and new High Bay lighting with a minimum 5 years replacement warranty.
(2) At the time of installation, the new lighting equipment must:
• be on the list of products accepted for installation under the NSW ‘Energy Savings Scheme’ (ESS), as published by the ESS Administrator, or
• be an LED linear tube product that is listed on the Victorian Energy Upgrades Program Product Register and complies with all relevant requirements of AS/NZS60598.2.1:2014, including amendments.
(3) Control gear for linear fluorescent lamps manufactured in or imported into Australia must comply with the requirements in AS/NZS 4783.2-2002.

MINIMUM INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS

(1) The Activity must be performed by a licensed electrical worker under the supervision of a licensed electrical contractor.
(2) The Activity must be completed and certified in accordance with any relevant code or codes of practice and other relevant legislation applying to the Activity, including any licensing, registration, statutory approval, Activity certification, health, safety, environmental or waste
disposal requirements.
(3) Where relevant, the Activity must achieve the relevant requirements of:
• AS 2293:2018 Emergency escape lighting and exit signs for buildings
• AS/NZS 1158:2020 Lighting for roads and Public Spaces
• AS 2144:2014 traffic signal lanterns
(4) Where linear florescent luminaires are modified to accept linear LED tubes, an Electrical Certificate of Compliance must be provided and retained for verification purposes. The Certificate of Compliance must define the modification work for each type of linear fluorescent luminaire, specify that the modification work include electrical isolation of the legacy ballast (and capacitor if one was present), and specify that the work was performed in accordance with the safety requirements of AS/NZS60598.2.1:2014, including amendments.
(5) All removed lighting and equipment must be removed in accordance with the Environment Protection (Waste to Resources) Policy 2010 under the Environment Protection Act 1993. No fluorescent lighting or any other lighting that contains mercury is to be disposed of to
landfill.
(6) Where linear LED tubes are installed in accordance with the instructions provided with the LED tube, but without removal of legacy ballasts and/or capacitors, installers must:
• Measure and assess the true power factor of the upgraded lighting circuit, with the aim to show the upgrade should not have a detrimental impact on the customer’s compliance with:
• Section 6.5.3 of SA Power Networks Service and Installation Rules, 2020. This requirement can be met by any reasonably verifiable and technically sound means proposed by the installer, and
• AS/NZS 3000:2018 wiring rules.
• Obtain ESCOSA approval for the proposed power factor measurement and assessment methodology prior to proceeding with the installation. Once approved, a methodology can be used across multiple installations, providing the methodology does not change.
Evidence that a methodology is approved by the Essential Services Commission of Victoria for the purposes of the Victorian Energy Upgrades program will be sufficient to meet this installation requirement.
(7) Each space, after implementation of the Lighting Upgrade must achieve:
• the relevant requirements of AS/NZS 1680:2017.
• the requirements of the NCC section F4.4, Artificial Lighting.
• an Illumination Power Density that equals or is less than the maximum Illumination
Power Density for each space, as defined in Part J6 of the NCC.
Additional requirements where recipient of the activity is a small energy-consuming customer:
(8) Where the new lighting installed equipment causes sub-optimal operation, or has not been completed to the demonstrated satisfaction of the recipient with regards to the colour temperature, colour rendering and the illumination levels of the new lighting, the installer
shall either reinstall equipment equivalent to the original equipment or replace any components of the equipment that are causing the installation not to operate, at no expense to the recipient. Such a request for reinstatement must be acted upon if made within 20
business days of the installation of the new equipment.
(9) The installer must make best endeavours to avoid compromising lighting service levels, and lux levels must be maintained at least at the levels prior to the Activity

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Commercial LED Lighting Upgrades