Wisconsin fails to pass LED Light bulb Law
A proposed law failed to pass last night in Madison Wisconsin that would make all landlords use led light bulbs or fluorescent light bulbs to light common areas. They were worried about bulb costs and disposal of the bulbs. Well, most landlords end up paying to light those common areas and why they were worried about a up front cost is beyond me. Its evident that they did not do their homework and do a complete study. Yes, the led light bulbs would be an upfront cost. They would have payed for themselves though. I ran an energy savings calculator on ten of the Super Vision SaVi R38 bulbs and here were the results.
Number of lamps: 10 lamps
SAVI LED lamp rated life : 50,000 hours
Incandescent lamp rated life : 2,000 hours
Cost per SAVI LED lamp: $155.00 dollars
Cost per standard incandescent lamp: $1.00 dollars
Operating hours per year: 8,760 hours
SAVI LED R38 wattage: 13.20 watts
Standard incandescent R38 wattage: 65.00 watts
Energy cost per KwH: $0.080 dollars
Labor Cost per Hour: $20.00 dollars per hour
Average time needed to replace one lamp: 7 minutes
Number of workers needed to change lamps: 1 workers
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 Total Savings over the life (5.71 years) of one SAVI LED R38 Lamp For the number of lamps you specified (10 lamps) you will save a total of $2,750.33 by replacing a traditional incandescent R38 bulb with a SAVI LED R38 over the life of one SAVI LED R38 lamp.So, you can obviously see that landlords would save $2750 for every ten bulbs over the course of three years. Thats about $900 in savings a year in energy use and replacement. This shows you that people do not understand the real cost savings in using led lights. As far as disposal goes, led lamps are much safer than disposing of fluorescent and regular bulbs because you do not have to worry about glass breaking and chemicals that are inside fluorescent and incandescent bulbs. Led light bulbs are much more environmental friendly.