Every home hosts an average of 40 light bulbs, making up, on average, 20% of your electrical bill. The simple action of changing your lighting to LED bulbs can save you big bucks over the course of a year.
Lets compare the most popular light bulbs and their yearly cost.
- Incandescent lighting: A 60-watt bulb uses 0.06 kWh of electricity each hour at a rate of $.011 per kWh. Average yearly cost – $6.60.
- Halogen lighting: A 43-watt bulb uses 25% less energy than the incandescent bulb. Average yearly cost – $4.73.
- Compact Flourescent: A 15-watt bulb uses a quarter of the energy of an incandescent light bulb. Average yearly cost – $1.65.
- LED lighting: A 12-watt bulb uses 80% less than incandescent bulb. Average yearly cost – $1.32.
This may seem like a small amount of savings for your home, but when you consider the impact of electrical waste amongst the millions of homes across the U.S., the savings can play a large part on preserving our environment.
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1. Ecologically Friendly – LED Lighting Is Much More Eco-Friendly
LED lights are free of toxic chemicals. Most conventional fluorescent lighting bulbs contain a multitude of materials like e.g mercury that are dangerous for the environment.
LED lights contain no toxic materials and are 100% recyclable, and will help you to reduce your carbon footprint by up to a third. The long operational life time span mentioned above means also that one LED light bulb can save material and production of 25 incandescent light bulbs. A big step towards a greener future!
2. Durable Quality – LED Illumination Can Withstand Rough Conditions
LEDs are extremely durable and built with sturdy components that are highly rugged and can withstand even the roughest conditions.
Because LED lights are resistant to shock, vibrations and external impacts, they make great outdoor lighting systems for rough conditions and exposure to weather, wind, rain or even external vandalism, traffic related public exposure and construction or manufacturing sites.
3. Zero UV Emissions – LED Lighting Features Close to No UV Emissions
LED illumination produces little infrared light and close to no UV emissions.
Because of this, LED lighting is highly suitable not only for goods and materials that are sensitive to heat due to the benefit of little radiated heat emission, but also for illumination of UV sensitive objects or materials such a in museums, art galleries, archeological sites etc.
4. Operational in Extremely Cold or Hot Temperatures
LED are ideal for operation under cold and low outdoor temperature settings. For fluorescent lamps, low temperatures may affect operation and present a challenge, but LED illumination operates well also in cold settings, such as for outdoor winter settings, freezer rooms etc.
5. Low-Voltage – LED Lighting Can Run on Low-Voltage Power Supply
A low-voltage power supply is sufficient for LED illumination. This makes it easy to use LED lighting also in outdoor settings, by connecting an external solar-energy source and is a big advantage when it comes to using LED technology in remote or rural areas.