How to save over $100 dollars a year on your lighting.

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

The easiest, cheapest and very first thing you can and should do is change all of your light bulbs from incandescent to compact fluorescents. It will save you tons of money and reduce the energy you use to light your environment.

For example: One 100 watt incandescent light bulb consumes approximately 100 watt/hours for every hour that it is on. If you assume the national average of use is 4 hours per day for 365 days, that light will burn 146,000 watt/hours per year or 146 killowatt hours a year. At FPL rates of 12 cents per killowatt hour that translates into a cost of $17.52 per year for one light bulb.

You can get about the same amount of light out of a 25 watt compact fluorescent that will only consume 36.5 killowatts, which comes out to only $4.38 per year.

If you have only 10 bulbs in your home You will Save $131.40 per year.

Under the category of more than you probably wanted to know, I continue...

To take the analalysis to even more extreme, people ask, "what's the cost difference between the two types?"

Well, the 100 watt incandescent costs about 25-50 cents and the 25 watt (=100W) compact fluorescent costs $4-$5 dollars. They are sometimes even cheaper for lower quality versions.

However, the incandescent has a life expectancyof only 750 hours or a little over 6 months based on our average use formula, while the compact flourescents have a life expectancy of anywhere from 6,000 hours to over 15,000 hours. (The ones we make are only 6,000 hours because we make them quick starting for your convenience. The longer lasting ones are not quick starting).

"So what", you say. Well, here's what. The purchase cost over the 6,000 hours that the compact fluorescent lasts is about equal and the compact fluorescent pays for itself in energy savings in the first 4 months!

Well, duuhhh!