I will publish what your lot costs to run. I will not publish what it costs to fix, and here is why.

Energy Efficiency Alberta was wound up in 2020. The Emissions Reduction Alberta Energy Savings for Business program is closed and fully allocated. SEMI is industrial only. If a competitor payback calculation has a rebate line in it, that payback is made up. My calculator has no rebate field, and that is deliberate.

Commercial lighting normally lands in capital cost allowance Class 8 at 20 percent declining balance, and Class 8 qualifies for the accelerated first year allowance through 2027. Talk to your accountant about that, not to me. I am an electrician.

Alberta STANDATA 24-ECB-030 says a luminaire with double ended lamps on a ballast rated over 150 volts to ground, disconnected and reconnected, counts as a new luminaire and needs disconnecting means. It extends that to energy conservation retrofits. Most Alberta warehouses and commercial buildings are 347 volt. So the cheap ballast bypass lands inside that sentence. A new fixture with no double ended lamps does not.

A proper retrofit uses a certified retrofit product and a new label on every single fixture, per CSA C22.2 No. 250.1, and the retrofit kit has to be certified for the fixture it goes into per STANDATA 24-ECB-002. I price the label. Most low bids do not, and the building owner inherits that at insurance or resale time.

Pole and base condition, the buried feeder of unknown age, lift access, and the photometric layout move an outdoor number more than the fixture does. Anybody quoting your lot off a web form is guessing. You get the energy and maintenance figures here, and the install number off a site visit.

Because the pole condition, the buried feeder, the lift access and the photometric layout move the number more than the fixture does. Anybody quoting your lot off a web form is guessing and will make it up in change orders. What I will publish is the energy and the maintenance you stop paying. The install number comes off a site visit.

It depends which municipality you are in, and they genuinely disagree. Strathcona County and Sherwood Park require full cutoff on any fixture over 2,000 lumens, which is every commercial fixture. St. Albert requires it on all exterior lighting. Parkland County requires Dark Sky compliant product on anything needing a permit. Edmonton requires none of it. Full cutoff optics run about 19 percent more, so it is a real cost.

About 458 to 465 W at the panel once the ballast is counted, not 400 W. It also holds only about 64 to 77 percent of its rated lumens in service depending on whether it is probe start or pulse start, so your lot is dimmer than it was designed to be.

Yes. Edmonton's own commercial electrical permit page names lighting retrofits as permit triggering work, and defines maintenance as like for like replacement for preservation or upkeep, not improvement. Swapping a dead HID wall pack for an identical HID wall pack is maintenance. Converting HID to LED is an improvement. Half this market does these jobs with no permit and the building owner carries that.

It requires metal within 2.5 m of grade to be bonded by a separate bonding conductor sized per Table 16. The wording moved from grounded to bonded because if pole equipment is grounded to an electrode and not bonded to the system neutral, a fault to the enclosure at the top of the pole energizes the conductor running down it. That is somebody getting hurt leaning on your light pole, and it is exactly what a cheap crew leaves behind.