Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Decorating LED style!
Decorations don’t have to be green to be green. Available for the past couple years at reasonable prices, LED options for holiday lighting are available alongside the standard mini-lights of the last 20 years. Unfortunately, most purchases are still mini-light strands. Using LEDs saves electricity, pure and simple. An equivalent strand of LED lights uses 80-90% less electricity than mini-lights and 99% less than the bigger (C7 or C9) lights common for many exterior decorations (those big bulb holiday lights).
If the US switched just 20% of the decoration lights this Christmas season, we would save 440 GWh of electricity, or about 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide based on the EPA national average of 1,363 lbs/MWh for electricity. That’s over More…
