SANTA ANA, CA—How would you like to save 88 percent of thelargest single component of your energy bill? RegencyCenters has done it, and been given an award to boot, aswell as being recognized for other sustainability efforts.

The neighborhood center owner has been awarded the firstLighting Energy Efficiency in Parking award from the U.S.Department of Energy's Better Buildings Alliance initiative for the“Highest Percentage Savings in a Retrofit at a Single ParkingFacility” for its Rona Plaza center in Santa Ana, CA. (Thecompany also was honored by the DOE Better Buildings Alliance andthe Institute for Market Transformation as a an inaugural GreenLease Leader for incorporating lease clauses that help tenant andproperty owners to save energy.)

The retrofit of the 51,760-square-foot center included what thecompany calls “best in class LED fixtures, equipped with astate-of-the-art wireless control system.” The result was an 88percent reduction in energy use compared to the previoustechnology.