Home Lighting Tips

Enhancing lighting efficiency is one of the easiest ways to lower energy bills. Just try switching to compact fluorescent lighting indoors and outside. It’s almost four times as efficient as incandescent and lasts 12 times longer.

Exterior Lighting Tips:

	Use outdoor lights with a timer or photocell so they turn off automatically in daylight.
	Turn off decorative gas lamps. Eight gas lamps burning year-round use as much natural gas as it takes to heat an average-size home during the winter.
	Choose long-lasting compact fluorescent bulbs for exterior lighting.
	Install motion sensitive lighting. You’ll return to a well-lighted house and prowlers will stay away.
	Purchase solar-powered security lights. You won’t have to get permits for underground installations.

Interior Lighting Tips:

	Don’t light an entire room when task lighting will do.
	Adjust lighting levels to your needs with three-way lamps.
	Use 4-foot fluorescent fixtures with reflective backing and electronic ballasts in workroom, garage and laundry areas.
	Use natural light by placing work areas near windows.
	Replace halogen torchieres with compact fluorescent ones. They use less energy and are safer.
	Turn off the lights when you are not in a room.
	Install occupancy sensors, so lights go off automatically in unoccupied rooms.