LED lighting technologies actually have the potential to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, reduce global warming, reduce acid rain, eliminate the need of several electrical power plants, and reduce the annual consumption of mercury for fluorescent lighting.

• 21% of all energy (oil, gas, coal, nuclear) goes to lighting.
• 30%, the largest single category, of all electricity is consumed by lighting.
• 7% of the 463 tons of mercury used annually, or 32 tons is used to make high efficiency fluorescent lighting.

LED lights have many environmental benefits. LED lights are long lasting, four times more efficient than a regular incandescent light bulb and last 10 times as long. LED lights also use between 50 and 80 percent less energy than an incandescent bulb. LED home lighting requires only one third of the energy that an incandescent bulb will use. A single 18-watt LED light can replace a 75-watt incandescent and in the lifetime of the LED light, will save 570 kWh of energy. At a basic eight cents per kilowatt rate, that equals $45 dollars in energy bill savings!

By switching to low energy LED home lighting instead of incandescent bulbs you can greatly decrease the ammount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere. One bulb will keep one half of a ton of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through the lifetime of the bulb.

LED lighting also keeps sulfur oxide and nuclear waste out of the atmosphere, leading to a cleaner world and one that will last much longer.

By using LED lighting our environment could easily revitalize itself without having to deal with the excess carbon dioxide, sulfur oxide and nuclear waste emissions that are currently being released into the atmosphere every day. Even changing one bulb in every home to LED home lighting would make a significant impact on the environment.

If every home in the United States were to switch to LED home lighting, 90 power plants could be retired, a potentially powerful impact to the long-term health of the environment.


The environmental benefits of using LED lighting are enormous, consider LED lighting not only a financial investment with guaranteed return on energy cost but also an investment into the future of our environment.

• Substantially reduces CO2 emissions that contribute to global warming.
• Greatly reduces landfill compared to regular lights.
• Will not release toxic mercury vapor like fluorescent lights do if broken.
• The low power requirements of LED light sources make them ideal for self-contained, solar or wind powered installations, particularly in remote locations.
• LEDs also require far less energy to manufacture than other light sources, reducing their environmental impact even further.