About Green Lighting

Over 20 percent of a typical home's electricity bill comes from lighting. As an example, a single standard 100 watt light bulb used for 6 hours a day will cost $25 per year to operate!1 With energy costs rising and consumers becoming more savvy about their purchasing decisions, energy efficient lighting has become an important consideration for many homeowners.

Benefits of choosing Energy Efficient Lighting
Energy Star rated products use 75% less energy and last up to 10 times longer than conventional products. In addition, the average house can create more than twice the greenhouse gases as a typical car.2 Switching to energy efficient lighting can easily and cost effectively reduce both your energy bill and your "carbon footprint".

Energy Efficient Lights
Green Lighting has quickly risen from a novelty to the mainstream. With the number of green lighting options increasing every day, consumers now have a wide variety of high quality designs from which to choose. Energy efficient lighting is available for every location in your home, and in nearly every style imaginable. Exterior lighting, chandeliers, and even recessed lighting and ceiling fans are now available with energy efficient fluorescent or LED light sources.

Converting Existing Lights
Another option to purchasing new lighting fixtures is to change the light bulbs in your existing lights from incandescent to compact fluorescent light bulbs. The light output, color and quality of light in your home will stay the same while dramatically reducing your energy consumption. Since compact fluorescent light bulbs use much less energy and last ten times longer than incandescent bulbs, they not only pay for themselves but actually save $30 or more over their lifespan.3

Southern Lights has many options to meet your green lighting needs. Stop in and talk with one of our experienced lighting consultants to learn more!


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Citations:
1Wikipedia.com
2EnergyStar.gov
3EnergyStar.gov