Ever stopped to consider how many halogen lamps are in Australia, and what they might cost to run each year, both in terms of electricity, and in terms of carbon emissions?
According to the ABS, in 2006 there were approximately 8.1 million households in Australia. It's a fairly safe assumption that each of these households (or homes) has at least one incadescent (halogen) lamp in use, running for an average 2 hours a day at a rate of 50 watts per hour.
If each household replaced just one of these lamps with a Neco LED (either our GU10 or MR16 downlight, or our new range of ES and BC fitting "GLS" style lamps) then the cumulative energy saving around the nation would be around $59.8 million every year (assuming a $0.23 per kWh electricity tariff). That's around $3 per person - enough to buy a milkshake for everyone!
Assuming a carbon production rate of 1.2 tonnes of carbon per megawatt of electricity produced, replacing just one lamp would reduce the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere by 72,607 tonnes per annum. That's the equivalent of taking 16,885 average size cars off the road for one year.
Whilst these statistics are impressively large, imagine the savings if all halogen lamps in Australia were to be replaced with LEDs. There is probably close to 100 million halogen lamps in Australia that need replacing with LEDs. Use our new LED Savings Calculator to find out what the savings would be then!
