Mehrzad Parsa

On December 21, Toronto's sun sets at 4:43 p.m. and doesn't rise until 7:47 a.m. That's about 15 hours of darkness, and your parking lot, wall packs and sign lights run through all of it. Inside lighting gets the attention. Outside lighting quietly runs up the bill.

Facility managers in the GTA and Southern Ontario see a lot of lighting “success stories.” Most are thin. Logos. Soft adjectives. No payback you can take to finance. Here is a practical way to read a case study — and what good proof looks like on a real Ontario project.

Ontario facility managers still treat "the rebate" as one thing. It is not. Instant Discounts vs Retrofit — pick the Save on Energy path before you buy LEDs.