Australia could save $8 billion every year by changing more light globes

Efficient lighting is one of the easiest, ready-to-implement technologies that can help transition to a low carbon economy.

Since the early 2000s Australia has managed to replace about half of our traditional incandescent light globes – ‘tubes and bulbs’ – with LED lights. If we managed to swap out the remaining 50% though, Harry Verhaar, Head of Public and Government Affairs at Signify, Australia’s largest lighting company, estimates we could save “about 8 billion Australian dollars every year” in electricity costs, and nearly 8 million tonnes of carbon […]

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