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Lighting & Renewable Energy
Modern systems. Lower bills. Better spaces.
ThreeCo helps Kansas City businesses light their spaces better and power them smarter. From custom lighting design to commercial solar, we deliver systems that look great, perform reliably, and pay for themselves.
Lighting Services
Light the space the way it should be lit.
Custom Lighting Design
Tailored lighting that enhances function and aesthetic. Commercial spaces, warehouses, offices, hospitality.
Energy-Efficient Lighting
LED retrofits and smart lighting that cut energy use and lower utility bills.
Outdoor & Landscape Lighting
Pathway, security, and architectural lighting that improves visibility and curb appeal.
Lighting Control Systems
Dimmers, occupancy sensors, scheduling, and smart integrations that give you control.
Renewable Energy
Cleaner power. Predictable bills.
Solar Installation
Commercial solar systems sized, designed, and installed for your facility.
Energy Storage
Battery systems that store solar power for outages and peak shaving.
Consultation & Design
We assess your usage and design a system that actually fits your operation.
Incentives & Financing
We help you navigate federal, state, and utility incentives that make solar pencil out.
Smarter lighting and clean energy aren't future-talk. They're operational decisions that save money this year. Let's run the numbers.
Start from what the space is for
Good lighting begins with the work done under it. A warehouse aisle needs light on the bottom shelf, an office needs even light without glare on the screens, a sanctuary or a dining room needs light that dims to suit the moment, and a parking lot needs light where people walk rather than spilled onto the neighbors. The fixture is chosen after those questions, not before them.
ThreeCo's lighting work is designed in-house by co-founder Bob DeFries, whose background is in electrical engineering and architectural design, and installed by crews under Jason Strange, our co-founder and Master Electrician. Where the light levels need to be shown before anything is bought, a photometric layout is available on request.
Retrofit, redesign, or some of each
A retrofit keeps the layout and changes the source: the existing fixtures converted or replaced with LED, usually with controls added. It is the quickest way to cut a lighting bill and end the lamp changes, and it suits a space whose layout already works. A redesign moves, adds or removes fixtures because the light is in the wrong place — a store reset, an office opened up, a warehouse re-racked.
Our projects run from one end to the other. At the Mazuma Credit Union headquarters in Overland Park, around 400 recessed can lights were replaced with LED; along the Berkley Riverfront Park Path in Kansas City, the job was lighting a public path. LED retrofits carry a warranty of one year on workmanship, five years on materials.
Use less, then make your own
On the energy side, order matters. Cutting the load first — LED, and controls that switch off what nobody is using — makes every later step smaller: a solar array sized for a building that has already cut its lighting load is a smaller array. Battery storage answers a different question: keeping chosen loads running in an outage, or covering demand peaks on rate plans that charge for them.
New loads belong in the same plan. EV chargers can add a large load, and the panel and service that feed them are the same ones a solar system connects to, so the two are worth sizing together rather than one at a time.
Rebates and incentives, as they stand
Utility rebates for lighting depend on the program open when you apply and on which Evergy account the building is on. As of October 5, 2026, Evergy lists business lighting incentives for Kansas-side accounts only, and its Missouri program funding for the current period is committed, with a waitlist. When a program is open, ThreeCo files the paperwork as part of the project.
Federal, state and utility incentives for solar change over time too, so we work from the ones available when you decide rather than from a figure that may be out of date.
More detail
Lighting and renewable work, one page each.
Parking Lot and Exterior Lighting
Poles, wall packs and canopies — the lights a customer sees before they see your door.
Warehouse and High-Bay LED Lighting
Light at height, in aisles and on the dock — where the fixtures are hardest to reach.
Commercial Lighting Controls
Dimmers, occupancy sensors, scheduling and smart integrations that give you control.
Pathway and Landscape Lighting
Pathway, security and architectural lighting that improves visibility and curb appeal.
Commercial Solar and Battery Storage
Commercial solar systems sized, designed and installed for your facility.
EV Charger Installation
Charging for staff, tenants, customers or a fleet — starting with whether the building can feed it.
Commercial LED Retrofit
Curious what this would cost for your space?
Send us your address and a rough sense of usage. We'll come back with a real number.
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