Solar Landscape Lighting

Looking for a way to brighten up that dark parking lot for your customers? How about bolstering your security level by lighting up areas of low visibility? Or, perhaps you'd like to illuminate your display window for more curb appeal.

Whatever your end goal may be, solar landscape lighting can get the job done. Efficient and economical, solar-powered landscape lights provide a simple solution for lighting up dark areas with minimal impact on the environment — and without compromising on style. Just like their natural counterparts that convert the Sun's rays into energy, solar landscape lighting is designed to compliment the aesthetic value of your business property or home, and it shines brightest where trenching costs once made lighting impossible.

What to Look for in Solar Landscape Lighting

There are many advantages to adding solar landscape lighting, but knowing where to start may make you puzzled. If you're not sure how to evaluate where your property would benefit from it the most, here's what you should look for.

• Accessibility. Some places on your property may be too far away to tap into your main power source without adding more wiring. Trenching and rewiring costs are expensive, so solar landscape lighting can help light up an inaccessible location.

• Safety. Intruders these days are all too common, and they exploit areas of minimal visibility to their advantage. If your property has a point of least security, solar landscape lighting could be a way to fortify it.

• Visibility. Your property doesn't have to be exposed to intruders for you to want to brighten it up a bit. Even the best landscaping ideas can be spruced up with extra light shed on them, and solar lighting can give just that.

Accessibility, safety, visibility — when surveying your property, look for these three areas of improvement to see if solar lighting can help.

Improved safety, better visibility, and access to a remote location are all benefits in themselves, but the advantages of solar landscape lighting don't stop there. Some of the main benefits of solar landscape lighting are:

• Grid-free solar lighting for pathways, walkways, bike paths, trails, etc

• Lower costs for installation and zero electricity bills.

• Multiple control options for various needs. Greenshine’s lights come with a bluetooth option, putting you in control of your security, efficiency, illumination level , and more.

• Environmental friendliness. As of 2019, 25% of greenhouse gas emissions were from electricity generation. Everyone must do their part in reducing their environmental impact, and solar landscape lighting can help environmentally conscious businesses lower their carbon footprint.

• Improved reliability. Because they don't rely on a centralized grid tie-in, solar landscape lights won't be bothered by disruptions from power outages. You'll have light as long as there was sunshine recently — and with our built-in batteries and high-cell efficiency, cloudy skies are less of a problem than many expect.

• Simplicity. Replacing the need for trenching, some solar landscape light installations are simpler than other lighting solutions — and less expensive too.

For proof of all the upsides solar landscape lighting brings to the table, take our LED canopy lights as an example. The low-voltage DC drive minimizes power requirements to a mere 20 watts — significantly less than HPS lights. Couple that with our rugged die cast aluminum fixtures, and we combine efficiency with durability you can count on.

Does solar landscape lighting really work well?

The short answer: Yes.

Whether it's a white security light activated by motion sensors or the soft glow of canopy lights over your business’s entrance, solar street lights must meet a wide range of needs. Brightness, duration, and activation mode must all be considered — and solutions exist for each need. 

For example, our LED canopy lights offer better control over spectral composition, delivering the color desired in each application — and with 2300 lumens, the canopy lights provide a visibility upgrade throughout the whole night.

So, do solar powered landscape lights actually work? If you want affordable, accessible, customized lighting for any part of your yard, they certainly do.

How Bright Should Landscape Lighting Be?

The amount of brightness you'll need for your landscape lighting will depend largely on the application, and it must be measured correctly. When incandescent bulbs dominated the industry, landscape lighting wattage was the only parameter that needed to be considered, but with so many lighting options available, that's no longer the case. Halogen, CFL, and LED lights can consume a fraction of the power needed to produce the same lumen count, or the unit used to measure brightness.

Although each project will have its lighting requirements, the following generally outlines the desired lumen count of most applications for solar LED landscape lights:

• Step lights: 12-100 lumens

• Path lights: 100-200 lumens

• Landscape spotlights: 120 lumens

• Pond/pool lights: 200-400 lumens

• Motion sensor lights: 300-700 lumens

• Flood lights: 700-1300 lumens

Whatever your project may be, we use LED lights in all our commercial solar landscape lighting solutions, as these are roughly 75% more efficient than incandescent bulbs — and last 25 times longer.

Greenshine New Energy Solar Landscape Lighting

Enhanced security, remote accessibility, aesthetic appeal, environmentally friendly, and a cost-effective solution to your lighting needs — with so many advantages offered by our professional grade solar landscape lights, why not try them out for yourself? We're among the leading solar landscape lighting manufacturers, so contact us for your solar landscape lighting solution, and we'll brighten your property and your day.

SOURCES:

1. United States Environmental Protection Agency: "Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions."

2. The Home Depot: "How Many Lumens Are Needed For Outdoor Lighting."

3. United States Department of Energy: "LED Lighting."