There are a total of 36 light bulbs in my house. holy crap. No wonder my last electricity bill was over $400.
This morning I replaced 30 of the light bulbs with GE ecoimagination light bulbs (I need to get a ladder to change the other 6). There are a heap of compact fluorescent light bulbs to chose from.
I chose the 15 watt eco bulb to replace my standard 75 watt bulbs.
According to GE this bulb will last 10 times as long as my traditional light bulb (10 -15 years) and will save me more than $100 over the life of the bulb. This is an American estimate based on US power pricing so for comparison sake I checked with Neco, an Australian site, and they claim that their bulbs will save $70 over the life of the bulb.
So over the next 10 years I am going to save somewhere from $2,520 to $3600 in energy costs.
Not to mention the actual energy I will be saving. GE claims that If every household in the U.S. replaced just one 100-watt incandescent light bulb with a GE compact fluorescent light bulb,
• In each year of the compact fluorescent light bulb’s life, we would reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as keeping 1.5 million cars off the road for a year.
• Over the bulb’s lifetime, we would save enough energy to power more than 1 million U.S. homes for an entire year.
Philips has also put some great information together on their website. The table below shows Philips estimated cash and Greenhouse emissions savings over three years.
Basically if you don’t go out and change all your light bulbs you are a chump.
Order your lights on line at www.neco.com.au
