Eco Friendly Holiday Lighting – LED Holiday Lights
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Tis the season for beautiful but costly light show displays, but new technology is coming to the rescue.
LED or Light emitting diodes are more than 90% efficient, far better than traditional incandescent lights. They also can last up to 25,000 hours compared to 3,000. A string of 300 traditional C-9 lights costs about $90for a season (60 days/6hrs a day, $0.12 per Kwh), compared to $0.84 for LEDs! Some LED light strings also remain lit even if one bulb in the string burns out, is loose, or is missing.
Our local utility PGE even offers instant rebate programs to switch.
Typical cost: Amazon has a 7 ft string of 30 holiday lights for $8. Prices are falling every year. Because these last so long, try spending a little more for more durable lights.
If you have old energy hogging lights, it is time to recycle them for LED ones. The payback is very fast.
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Filed under: Conservation, Easy, Effort, Energy, Environment, Green, Home, Reduce | Tags: Holiday lighting, LED lighting
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November 23rd, 2009 at 10:01 am
In addition to the cost savings, the safety advantage of these types of lights cannot be overstated especially at Christmas time. Often, lights are left on all night long and the traditional bulbs can get very hot thereby creating a fire hazard. LEDs do not have this problem since emit no practically no heat.
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:04 pm
This will be our second year of using the LED lights. They do cost a bit more, but the savings in energy is worth it. Not to mention the less impact.