Healthcare LED retrofits in Texas.
Hospitals, rehab facilities, physical therapy centers, and clinics. Healthcare-grade LED panels with high color rendering, flicker-free drivers, and scheduled install around patient care.
What healthcare operators in Texas should know.
Texas is a core Energie market with a dedicated office. Commercial rates average ~$0.085/kWh across deregulated territories, but demand charges and burn-hour patterns mean LED + controls still pay back in 2-4 years on most exterior projects. Dallas-Fort Worth CRE and Houston industrial drive the bulk of project demand. Portfolio-scale owners appreciate the single-vendor nationwide execution model.
Average commercial rate: $0.085/kWh (deregulated)
Texas incentive navigation
Oncor covers Dallas-Fort Worth and much of north Texas. Prescriptive and custom pathways for commercial lighting and controls retrofits. Strong incentives for interior fluorescent-to-LED conversions.
CenterPoint covers the Houston metro. Commercial and industrial incentive programs cover lighting, HVAC, and controls upgrades with typical caps around 50% of project cost.
AEP Texas territory covers the Rio Grande Valley, Corpus Christi, and west Texas. Commercial retrofit incentives through EM&V-verified savings.
What healthcare operators tell us is broken.
Fluorescent flicker disrupts care
Old T8 fluorescent drivers flicker at 60Hz, which is visible to some patients and causes issues with camera-based therapy assessments.
Skin-tone reading accuracy
Low-CRI lighting makes skin-tone assessment unreliable for wound care, dermatology, and general patient evaluation. Healthcare needs 90+.
Install timing is critical
You can't shut down patient care for a retrofit. We work around the schedule, room-by-room, with full coordination.
Fluorescent supply is drying up
Multiple states have banned new fluorescent sales. Supply costs are climbing fast — $41/fixture projected in 2026. Waiting costs more.
St Lukes Rehabilitation is the reference project — healthcare-grade LED retrofit across physical therapy rooms and treatment spaces. Flicker-free drivers, CRI 90+, patient-first install schedule.
Healthcare-grade LED is different.
Consumer-grade LED panels aren't appropriate for healthcare settings. Medical applications require flicker-free drivers, high CRI for accurate color, and low glare for patient comfort. The right spec costs slightly more but makes the retrofit clinically appropriate.
- CRI 90+ enables accurate skin-tone reading for wound care and dermatology
- Flicker-free drivers eliminate the 60Hz strobing that interferes with camera-based therapy
- Low glare and warmer CCT options for patient rooms reduce visual stress
- Fluorescent bans now active in VT, CA, CO, OR, RI — supply and pricing pressure accelerating
Healthcare facility audit.
We understand patient care comes first. Audit scheduled around your clinical workflow. Healthcare-grade spec, not commodity LED.