A quality LED 60W equivalent bulb will set you back about $4-5.
Assuming you pay $0.11/kwh for electricity, moving from a 60W incandescent to a 8.5W LED bulb will save you $5 in electricity in just 880 hours. If you use your lights just 3 hours a night, this is less than a year. Your bulb will pay for itself in less than a year.
The nice part is that after those 880 hours, you have roughly 1200 hours before your incandescent burns out vs. 49,000 hours of LED bulb life. Even if your incandescent has half its life left, the energy savings will still pay for the LED bulb before it burns out.
Throw away your incandescents. Every second you light up an incandescent bulb, you're wasting money.
January 08, 2017 at 10:13PM
