There are easy things you can do to reduce the amount of energy you use for lighting:
- Turn off lights when you don’t need them.
- Replace incandescent bulbs with efficient ENERGY STAR™ compact fluorescent lights – now available in a wide variety of sizes and styles.
- Make the most of natural daylight.
- Use a single more powerful light where you now have two or more. Lower Wattage incandescent lights are less efficient. It takes two 60-watt bulbs to provide the same light as one 100-watt bulb.
- Save energy by reducing background lighting and focusing light where it's needed through task lighting.
- Switch to lower-wattage bulbs to avoid over-lit rooms.
- Control the intensity of light with dimmer switches.
- Switch your holiday lights to LED lights. LEDs use 90% less electricity and last 10 times longer than traditional glass holiday lights.