Benefits of Energy Saving Light Bulb

Why energy saving light bulbs are better than traditional light bulbs? The number one reason why energy saving light bulbs are better is – they use 75% less energy than standard light bulbs while producing about the same light output. Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL), a popular kind of energy saving light bulbs also last 6 - 10 times longer than normal light bulbs. The only significant difference you'll notice is a lower electricity bill. Every time you replace a burned-out light bulb, you're making a decision that affects the environment. Our biggest environmental problems are directly associated with energy production and use: urban smog, oil spills, acid rain and global warming. Energy saving, compact fluorescent light bulbs help improve the quality of the environment and they reduce business and home energy bills. Lighting uses roughly 10-20% of the energy in commercial buildings. Energy saving, compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL) also usually have a longer rated life than less efficient light bulbs, so maintenance costs are reduced. In homes, lighting consumes 5% - 8% of the total energy bill.

Changing the world starts with simple actions. When you replace light bulbs or entire light fixtures in your home with ones that save energy, you help preserve energy resources and reduce the risks of global warming while saving money and time buying and changing lights in your home. The five highest use fixtures in a home are typically the kitchen ceiling lights, the living or family room table and floor lamps, and outdoor porch or post lamp.

The smallest things can add up to a real difference. We encourage you to change out the light fixtures or bulbs at home that you use most with energy saving light bulbs. If every American home replaced their 5 most frequently used light fixtures or the bulbs, we would save close to $8 billion each year in energy costs, and together we would prevent the greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions from nearly 10 million cars. The energy used in the average home can be responsible for more than twice the greenhouse gas emissions of the average car. When you use less energy at home, you reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and help protect our environment from the risks of global climate change.

So much so that Australia is phasing out the standard light bulb in favor of energy efficient light bulbs. Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull called for the change to compact fluorescent bulbs which cost $5 more, but save households an average of $30 over the life of the bulb.

How to choose the Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFL)?

An energy saving light bulb that uses 11 watts of energy replaces an standard bulb utilizing 60 watts of energy. This eliminates the emission of 1600 pounds of carbon dioxide and 30 pounds of sulfur dioxide from a coal fired plant-producing electricity. If you have about 30 light bulbs in your house, replacing them with energy efficient light bulbs will save you trips to the store to replace burned out lights, and about $900 over the life of the light bulbs. Make a change that will help the environment, and your energy bills.