Your current draw
Count the fixtures, note the wattage they actually pull, multiply by the hours they run.
Commercial LED Lighting Retrofit — Bay Area & South Houston
Cut your electric bill and end the re-lamp treadmill — interior, warehouse high-bay, office, and parking-lot lighting, retrofitted by a licensed local electrician who shows you the real payback math.
For property owners, facility and property managers, and business operators across the Galveston Bay and South Houston corridor — warehouses, retail, offices, restaurants, and light-industrial space. We retrofit the lighting you're paying too much to run, calculate your actual savings before you commit, and pull the permits where the work calls for them.
Licensed master electrician
TDLR EC #EECELE00037785
27+ years
Permits & inspection handled · NEC 2023
TDLR EC #EECELE00037785
Licensed Master Electrician
27+ Years Experience
Permits & Inspection Handled
NEC 2023 Code-Compliant
Workmanship Warranty
The ROI case
Real savings, not a sales pitch
A lighting retrofit attacks two costs at once, and both are money leaving your building every month.
The first is the electric bill. LED fixtures draw a fraction of the wattage of the fluorescent, HID, and halogen lighting most older commercial spaces still run. A high-bay or area light that pulled hundreds of watts gets replaced by one that does the same job — or lights the space better — on far less. That difference shows up on every CenterPoint statement, every month, for the life of the fixtures.
The second is the maintenance treadmill. Every time a fluorescent tube or HID lamp burns out, someone sends a tech up a lift or ladder to swap a lamp or a ballast — and on a warehouse high-bay or a parking-lot pole, that's not a quick fix. Quality LEDs last years, not months, so the re-lamp labor, the lift rental, and the after-hours callouts largely go away. That avoided labor is real money, and most "savings" pitches forget to count it.
Here's the honest part: we won't quote you a stock "save up to 75%." Your savings depend on your fixtures, your run-hours, and your kWh rate — and those vary from one building to the next. So we calculate the number for your building instead of selling you someone else's. You get math you can check, not a savings fantasy.
The methodology
How we calculate your real payback
The methodology is simple, and we'll show our work:
Your rate
Apply your real kWh rate from your utility bill — not a national average.
The LED draw
Subtract what the replacement fixtures pull at the same light levels.
The avoided maintenance
Add the re-lamp and ballast labor — plus lift time and after-hours callouts — you stop paying once the LEDs are in.
That gives you an annual savings figure and a payback period that's yours — the months until the retrofit has paid for itself, after which the savings are just money back in the business. No fabricated percentage, no "trust us." We do the walkthrough and the calc first, then you decide.
The walkthrough and the payback calculation are the give — you get the real numbers before you spend a dollar on fixtures.
Interior scope
What we retrofit inside
Concrete scope, so you can find your building on this list:
- Warehouse & shop high-bay — fluorescent or HID high-bay swapped for high-bay LED, often with better, more even light than what was there. The corridor's classic warehouse lighting retrofit in Texas City and across the industrial belt.
- Office troffers & fluorescent-to-LED — 2x4 and 2x2 troffers, plus T8 and T12 fluorescent converted to LED, with proper ballast bypass so you're not nursing failing ballasts anymore. This is the bread-and-butter office LED conversion in Clear Lake and the wider Bay Area LED lighting upgrade.
- Retail & customer-facing space — sales-floor, display, and back-of-house lighting that looks finished and runs cheap.
- Back-of-house & support areas — break rooms, restrooms, corridors, stockrooms.
We light the space to the right foot-candle and lumen levels for the work being done — we don't under-light a workspace to chase a wattage number on a spec sheet. And where it pays off, we add occupancy sensors and daylight (photocell) controls so lights aren't burning in empty rooms or in full sun — extra savings on top of the fixture swap.
Exterior scope
Parking-lot & exterior lighting — the line most locals ignore
This is the part the corridor's residential-only competitors don't carry, and it's where some of the biggest savings live. Pole and area lights, building wall packs, and exterior/security lighting are typically high-wattage and run all night — so the kWh waste and the failure-replacement cost are both heavy.
Retrofitting your parking-lot lighting across the Bay Area does three things: it cuts the energy draw on fixtures that run every night, it ends the cost and hassle of bucket-truck lamp replacements on poles, and it brightens the lot — better visibility and security for your tenants, customers, and staff after dark. We add photocells and timers so the exterior lights run on the schedule that fits your property, not all day.
Energy back, maintenance gone, and a lot that's safer to walk across at night. That's the dual-scope value — interior and exterior — under one licensed local team.
How it works
How our retrofit process works
We keep the uncertainty low and the accountability high:
Walkthrough & fixture audit
We count and document what you're running now — interior and exterior — and capture the wattage, run-hours, and trouble spots.
We calculate your actual payback
Using the methodology above, against your real kWh rate. You see the annual-savings and payback numbers before anything is ordered.
Fixed, photo-backed scope and quote
A clear written scope — what's being replaced, with what, and what it saves — not a number guessed over the phone.
Permitted install by one local team
Where the work touches the service side or controls, we handle the permit and inspection. The same licensed crew does the job — minimal disruption, phased or after-hours options so we're not shutting your operation down.
Clean handoff
Old fixtures hauled, site left tidy, and the new system explained.
It's the same discipline our customers already call out. A verified Housecall Pro review (Paul Belobrajdic, Jan 2026, residential) describes a TriCoast technician who "explained the work," worked from "a checklist that will ensure a thorough job from start to finish," and left "the job site spotless after the work was completed." (That's a residential workmanship review — shown here only as a workmanship signal, not a commercial retrofit reference.)
Proof
Proof: a real corridor retrofit
Placeholder — needs real data:
A service-specific LED-retrofit case study — a corridor project named by type and submarket (e.g., "12,000 sq ft retail finish-out, Webster"; "Texas City warehouse high-bay retrofit"), with fixture count or scope and a VERIFIED energy-savings or payback figure (e.g., "$X/yr saved, ~Y-month payback"). Do NOT invent the number. The named business/organization reviews are now shown below; a by-type retrofit reference would make this section even more concrete.
Recent corridor retrofit — [facility type], [scope]. We'll publish the verified annual-savings and payback figures here once the project data is confirmed. We don't print a number we haven't actually calculated.
Placeholder — needs real data:
Real before/after retrofit photos — (1) an interior high-bay or warehouse retrofit and (2) a parking-lot/wall-pack swap. The visual before/after is the proof the thin local sites lack and the genuine asset that clears the anti-doorway bar before this page publishes at full strength. Do not use stock photos in place of real job photos.
Trusted across the corridor
Including reviews from business and organization clients we've served:
Great communication and speedy service! Give that PM a raise :) Thank you.
Clear Creek Community Church
Verified Housecall Pro review · November 2025
Top notch service every time. Had an emergency call out and they were on it!
Third Coast Construction & Excavation, LLC
Verified Housecall Pro review · September 2025
The honest trade-off
Why a licensed local electrician — not a lighting reseller
There are three ways to buy a lighting retrofit, and two of them leave you exposed.
A lighting reseller sells you fixtures — the savings math is whatever moves the boxes, and the install and the code compliance are your problem. A national retrofit program can quote a savings fantasy and then disappear when there's a question two years later. And a residential-only local electrician doesn't carry commercial lighting scope or the exterior side at all.
TriCoast is the fourth option: the licensed, accountable master electrician who does it to NEC 2023 code, handles the permit and any utility or controls coordination, and stands behind the work — and who shows you honest payback numbers instead of a stock percentage.
We're not always the cheapest bid you'll get — but we're always permitted, to code, and warrantied.
That's the trade: we pull permits, do it to code, and back it with our workmanship warranty. On a retrofit you're paying for in energy savings for years, the one who got the numbers right and the install done right is the cheap path — not the lowest line on a bid sheet.
Service area
Serving the Galveston Bay & South Houston commercial corridor
We retrofit commercial lighting across the corridor — including the NASA and medical Clear Lake corridor, the industrial Texas City / La Marque belt, and the retail and office strips throughout the Bay Area, where the warehouses, lots, and older fluorescent ceilings that pay back fastest actually are.
Tier-1 hubs we serve: League City, Friendswood, Pearland, Webster/Clear Lake, Texas City, La Marque, Dickinson, and Galveston Island — plus surrounding communities including Kemah, Seabrook, Nassau Bay, Santa Fe, Hitchcock, Bacliff, San Leon, El Lago, Taylor Lake Village, and Clear Lake Shores.
Don't see your facility's town? We likely cover it. See our full service area.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How much will a commercial LED retrofit actually save me?
It depends on your current fixtures, how many hours they run, your kWh rate, and the re-lamp and ballast labor you stop paying — so we calculate your number rather than quote a stock "up to 75%." We walk the building, count and meter what you're running, apply your real utility rate, and show you the annual-savings figure before you commit.
What's the payback period on an LED retrofit?
Payback is the number of months until the savings have covered the cost of the retrofit — after that, it's money back in the business. It comes from two streams: lower energy draw on every fixture, every hour they run, plus the avoided lift-and-ladder re-lamp and ballast labor. The range varies by facility, so we show you the actual math for your building rather than a stock claim.
Do you handle parking-lot and exterior lighting too, or just interior?
Both. We retrofit interior warehouse high-bay, office troffers, and fluorescent-to-LED, and exterior parking-lot, area, and wall-pack lighting — with photocells and timers. The exterior side is often where the biggest energy and maintenance savings are, and it's the line most corridor locals don't carry at all.
Do you pull permits for commercial electrical work?
Yes. We're a licensed master electrician (TDLR EC #EECELE00037785), we work to NEC 2023 code, and we handle permits and inspection — including any local or utility permitting where the retrofit touches the service side or controls. A good contractor pulls their own permits; we do.
Will the retrofit disrupt my business — can you work after hours?
We plan around your operation. The work can be phased, and we offer after-hours and off-peak scheduling so we're not shutting your floor, store, or warehouse down to swap fixtures. We leave the site tidy and the old fixtures hauled away.
Are you the cheapest option?
Not always — sometimes we are. We're a licensed master electrician who pulls permits, does it to NEC code, and stands behind the work with a workmanship warranty — and we give you honest payback numbers instead of a savings fantasy. On a retrofit you keep saving on for years, the right install and the right math beat the lowest bid.
Placeholder — needs real data:
FAQ "How much will a commercial LED retrofit actually save me?": cite a verified example figure from a completed corridor project here once available.
We calculate your real payback before you commit.
TriCoast Electrical Services, LLC · Licensed master electrician · TDLR EC #EECELE00037785
Adding controls or fixtures that exceed your current capacity? We can upgrade the commercial service or panel too. Doing a finish-out? Spec the lighting right the first time as part of the build.
Ready to see your real payback?
We'll walk your building, audit the fixtures inside and out, and calculate your actual annual savings and payback period — before you commit to anything. No-obligation written quote, NEC 2023 code-correct, permits handled, backed by our workmanship warranty.
No obligation, no pressure
Permits & inspection handled
Workmanship warranty