Philippines Plans to Save Big Using Energy Efficient Lights
- Posted by Bill Belew in Energy
Feb 2,2009
The Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) says $100+ million will be saved every year when Filipinos start using energy-efficient lights.
ADB will fund the energy-efficiency project in the Philippines by giving away 13 million energy-saving lights to homeowners and businesses with the government’s backing to cut the nation’s power bills.
ADB has approved a $31.1 million-dollar loan to the Philippines government for the Philippine Energy Efficiency Project. Compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) will be distributed to customers nationwide in exchange for their incandescent bulbs. Each CFL will save customers 400 pesos ($8.50 dollars) a year for the next 7 to 10 years. GP wonders why this isn’t happening in every country in the world.
The project will fit government office buildings and public lighting systems with efficient lighting options also as well as establish an energy service company for financial and technical suppor.
Just 20 percent of the electricity used by regular light bulbs produce light. The rest produces heat. A CFL uses all of its electricity input to produce light.
The average incandescent bulb lasts about 800 hours. CFLs will have a life expectancy of 10,000 hours and 2-year warranty to boot.
Tell me again why this isn’t happening in every country.
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One Response to “Philippines Plans to Save Big Using Energy Efficient Lights”
This sounds like a good idea in theory. In practice it hasn’t worked that well in some other developing countries where it was tried. For example I believe in South Africa there was a big distribution of CFLs as part of a carbon offsetting program (first world people paying for the CFLs to offset their driving gas-guzzling SUVs). It turned out that most of the CFLs were rarely or never used or were thrown out (complete with their toxic mercury) because people didn’t like the color of the light.
The best way to drive adoption of energy saving technology is to accurately reflect the full costs of energy, including environmental and societal costs, in the actual energy cost. That way people will switch to CFLs and other energy efficient products without anyone having to give them away.
People tend not to value what is given to them as much as what they paid for with their own money.
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