Lighting Efficiency Lighting Efficiency Information Strategies to Implement Governor's Executive Order on Reduction of Outdoor Lighting Lighting represents as much as 25 percent of your home's electrical use, so it is a significant part of your monthly utility bill. Lighting affects the way you feel, work, and interact with others. It helps you accomplish everyday tasks. Light gives us beauty as well as vision, and the quality is often far more important to us than the quantity.
Efficient lighting is a science as well as an art.
And yet, most of us still use the incandescent bulb, which is basically the same technology invented by Thomas Edison over 100 years ago. Since lighting represents as much as 25 percent of your home's electrical use, increasing your lighting efficiency is one of the easiest and fastest ways to lower your energy bills. One easy way to reduce your electric bill without sacrificing the quality of your home lighting is to replace your incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lights. Compact fluorescents come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wattages to fit most lamps and light fixtures. That is about ten times longer than a regular incandescent light bulb.