Tag: electricity

Digital Billboard Power Use

Bad information dies hard.  Last week Manhattan, Kansas commissioner Jerred McKee explained his opposition to digital billboards to The Collegian: “Character is my biggest concern,” McKee said. “In a study I read, digital billboards have a bigger carbon footprint and use 30 times more energy than the average home in […]

Proposal Could Increase TX Billboard Electric Costs

  Insider learned this week that Oncor Electric Delivery Company has filed an Application for Authority to Change Rates with the Public Utility Commission of Texas.  The overall rate increase is 7.5%.  Insider has been told, however, that the rate which impacts billboard companies (Primary DL<=10kW)  will go up by […]

50% power savings from new digital billboard.

Digital billboards have become much more efficient.  Here’s a September 22, 2016  Daktronics blog post about a customer who reduced his power bill by 50% by replacing a 2005 digital sign with a 2016 digital sign. Long Time Customer Sees Massive power Savings. If you’re an Independent billboard operator and […]