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This worksheet covers
• Amount and type of energy used in Lighting
• CO2 emissions from Lighting
• Reducing energy used in Lighting
How much energy do we use in lighting?
• We use lighting at home, at work, at school and for travelling at night.
• The table below shows the estimated electrical energy used for lighting by an average two person home:
• Assuming a mix of light bulb types, the average person
Assuming a mix of light bulb types the average person’ss domestic lighting requirement would be around
domestic lighting requirement would be around
2.7kWh per person per day.
• At work or school, lighting is used in daylight hours and after dark, it is shared between many people, and the
lighting well be more efficient. A rough estimate puts the consumption at half that used at home: 1.3kWh per
day per person.
• Street lighting amounts to about 0.1 kWh per person per day, and traffic lights even less. Councils may aim to
reduce their energy bills on lighting – but while we use incandescent lights, street lighting remains a small
contribution to our overall lighting energy per person
contribution to our overall lighting energy per person.
• This gives a total daily demand for lighting of 4kWh per person per day.
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What does this energy use amount to in terms of CO2 emissions?
What does this energy use amount to in terms of CO
Using 1 kWh of electrical energy in the UK is roughly equivalent to releasing 0.5kg of CO2. This means
4kWh/day/person is equivalent to releasing 2kg of CO2/person/day.
How can we reduce this?
There are two main ways of reducing the energy consumed in lighting
• Reducing the lighting demand – using natural light wherever possible,
and turning the lights off when not needed!
• Making lights more efficient – using energy efficient bulbs / sodium
lights instead of incandescent bulbs
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Changes like these can reduce the energy consumption in lighting by 55%,
which means the average use for a UK person would then be 1.8kWh/day:
a significant saving.
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The economics of low energy bulbs?
The economics of low energy bulbs?
It seems counter‐intuitive to throw away a fully functioning bulb!
This though is exactly what you should do – the following analysis
will show why:
• A modern low energy light bulb consumes 20W and is claimed to
give the same illumination as a conventional 100W incandescent bulb.
• The lifetime of the low energy bulb is quoted as 15,000 hours; for an
incandescent bulb it is around 1,000 hours. So for the same time period
you would need 15 incandescent bulbs for a single low energy bulb.
• For the 15,000 hours of operation the low energy bulb will use 300kWh of energy; the incandescent bulbs will use
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1,500 kWh. A kWh of electricity is roughly 10p, therefore operating costs for the low energy bulb are £30, for the
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incandescent bulb £150.
• The purchase price of an energy saving bulb is now roughly comparable to that of an incandescent bulb. The
decision is thus quite simple: by changing to a low energy bulb you could save around £120 over the lifetime of the
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bulb compared to the incandescent bulbs.
Sources
MacKay DJC, Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, UIT Cambridge, 2009.
Also available free online from www.withouthotair.com
Light bulb information from www.Lightbulbs‐Direct.com
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