LED Lighting Facts

DID YOU KNOW?                                                                                                                                  þ     LED stands for Light-Emitting Diode. þ     LED lights require less energy to generate the same amount of light as other types of bulbs. They save energy and money because less kilowatts are used. þ     Your bill is calculated using a kilowatt hour rate that can fluctuate from month to month. On an average, this rate will be increased 10% every year. þ     Each kilowatt of electricity generated requires 1 pound of coal to be burned, and causes about 2 pounds of CO2 emissions.  Over the lifetime of just 1 incandescent light bulb, the average family's lighting alone causes about 1.5 tons of CO2 to be emitted into the air. þ     Incandescent lights use over 90% of the energy consumed to produce heat, and only 10% to produce light. Fluorescents, halogens, and metal halides also use the majority of energy consumed to create heat.  The heat gets trapped in the bulb and they are very hot to the touch.  LED lighting products have very tiny lights, their design allows the heat to escape, and the bulbs remain cool to the touch.   þ     In areas of your home or business that use air conditioning and where there are lights on for may hours per day, your air conditioning uses even more energy to offset the heat generated from your light bulbs. (Even though LEDs would obviously save the most when you replace high-usage bulbs, you might even want to consider replacing the appliance bulbs in your refrigerator!) þ     LED lighting products can last 3 to 5 times longer than a comparable fluorescent light, and even longer still than an incandescent or halogen light. So, even though LED lights cost more initially, you actually save money on your purchase of lights over the lifetime of the LED product. þ     LED products can be manufactured with your preference of color brightness: cold white, cool white, neutral, warm white, soft white, yellow, etc. Most can be made with other different colored lights like blue, red, green, yellow, etc., or they can mix the colors in one unit (RBG).   LED lights can come with any type of base to fit your existing light fixtures, and some can be hard-wired.   Some LED products can be used with a dimmer switch, and some can run on a battery. For more in-depth information on LED technology, see the Department of Energy web site.

TERP, LLC deals directly with the manufacturers of LED lighting products to help make this great new technology more widely available.    We have reasonably-priced LED replacements for most residential lighting applications, and provide custom lighting solutions for custom and commercial applications.