Lighting conservation is perhaps the low hanging fruit in all of energy conservation targets. It is no secret that the cost of energy is going in one direction, up. Rising energy costs are much more than just a trend; they are a way of life. There is no crystal ball that can predict what our energy costs might be a year from now or five years from now. However, you dont need a crystal ball to know that energy costs are on the rise. Global competition for scarce finite resources drives our energy needs and pushes the cost envelope up, up, up.