Savings on Electricity

Energy-Efficient Lighting Tips to start saving on electricity

A typical home uses 400-1000 kiloWatt-hours per year in lighting.

To become more energy efficient with lights throughout your home, follow these tips:

• Clean your light fixtures regularly.
• Turn off lights when leaving a room.
• Provide task lighting over desks, tool benches, etc., so that activities can be carried on without illuminating entire rooms.
• If possible, put lamps in corners of rooms, where they can reflect light from two wall surfaces instead of one.
• Use compact fluorescent bulbs in fixtures that are on for more than two hours a day. Compact fluorescent bulbs will given an incandescent bulb's warm, soft light, while using up to 75 percent less electricity. They also last about 10 times longer. Typically, a 23-watt compact fluorescent bulb can replace a 90- or 100-watt incandescent bulb.
  Use dimmable bulbs when possible.
• Install photoelectric controls or timers to make sure that outdoor lighting is turned off during the day.
• Energy-Efficient Lighting Products
  Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
• Compact fluorescent light bulbs put out as much light as regular incandescent bulbs, but last anywhere from 8 to 10 times longer, and use anywhere from 50 to 75 percent less electricity for the same (or more!) light output. In fact, some companies are making torchieres that use compact fluorescent lamps instead of hot halogen lamps. Others now make compact fluorescent track lighting and downlighting systems. Some of the newer lamps can be used with dimming devices.

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