• When you leave a room, or leave your home, remember to turn off all unnecessary lights.
• Replace frequently-used lights with compact fluorescent lights - you?ll save up to 79 percent on your lighting costs and significantly reduce the amount of heat generated by standard lights.
• Instead of wasting energy by lighting the entire room, use task lighting to focus light where you need it most.
• Consider using 3-way lamps - they make it easier to keep lighting levels low when brighter light isn?t necessary.
• If you have torchiere lamps with halogen bulbs, consider replacing them with compact fluorescent torchieres. Compact fluorescent torchieres use 60 to 80 percent less energy and can produce more light than halogen bulbs.
• Installing timers and motion detectors for some indoor lights and most outdoor lights can save up to 30 percent of lighting energy use.
• For more energy-efficient light, use one large bulb instead of several small ones - a 100-watt bulb produces more light with less energy than 2 60-watt bulbs.
• For brighter, more energy-efficient light, place floor lamps and hanging lamps in corners - the reflection off the walls will provide more light.

Compact Fluorescents

One easy way to save electricity is to swap out inefficient incandescent lightbulbs with Energy Star-qualified compact fluorescent lightbulbs, which use up to 75 percent less energy!

Our neighbor, Appalachian Electric Cooperative, recently conducted a study of the benefits of compact fluorescent bulbs which revealed the following results: