| Energy Efficient Lighting |
According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) artificial lighting uses 15% of a household's electricity. Use of new lighting technologies and daylighting can reduce lighting energy use in homes by 50%-75%. The following links give tips and advice to keep your home well-lighted with the least expense.
Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs
This is an ENERGY STAR web site. If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
Indoor and Outdoor Lighting
This is a DOE web site.
Sustainable Building Sourcebook: Lighting
Published by Austin Energy's Green Power Program.
Lighting - 18seconds.org
Replace your lights in high-use areas with fluorescents. Replacing 25% of your lights can save about 50% of your lighting energy bill. With DOE and EPA assistance, Yahoo has launched the 18seconds.org web site where consumers are encouraged to replace traditional incandescent light bulbs with Energy Star compliant compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs). CFL purchases are tracked nationally and locally. An energy-saving, compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), or light bulb is a type of fluorescent lamp that fits into a standard light bulb socket or plugs into a small lighting fixture.
The National Lighting Bureau (NLB)
The NLB is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 to educate lighting decision-makers about the benefits of High-Benefit LightingŪ. The NLB is sponsored by professional societies, trade associations, manufacturers, utilities, and agencies of the federal government. This NLB brochure explains the TAX BENEFITS available for high-efficiency lighting as authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and it offers resources for additional information.
Residential Light Fixtures
This is an ENERGY STAR web site.
Daylighting
Lighting and Daylighting
This DOE web site show you how you can save energy while still maintaining good light quantity and quality. The lighting in our environment affects our health, safety, morale, comfort and productivity.
Daylighting
A Whole Building Design Guide web page.
Sustainable Building Sourcebook: Natural Daylighting
Published by Austin Energy's Green Power Program.
Daylighting in Schools: Improving Student Performance and Health
Windows
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Window Energy Efficiency
This Efficient Windows Collaborative web site provides information on the benefits of energy-efficient windows, descriptions of how they work, recommendations for their selection and use, and how to claim the new tax credits.
Windows, Doors and Skylights
This DOE web site shows how to lower a home's heating, cooling, and lighting costs through the efficient use of windows, doors and skylights.
How Windows Affect Heating and Cooling Costs
Windows and Glazing
A Whole Building Design Guide web page.
Install Skylights or Light Pipes
Energy Features of Glazing
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