Why We Want to Use CFL lambs

A CFL bulb works up to 10000 hours. About 490units of electricity can be saved by this time. If Rs.3 is estimated for one unit, the amount of electricity saved is Rs.1470. It is the case of a single CFL bulb. Just think that there are 10 CFL bulbs in your house. Then the amount saved is more than Rs.14000.

An 11watt CFL bulb will cost Rs.200. Just imagine that you use this CFL bulb instead of 60watt ordinary bulb. 72 units of electricity is saved in one year if used for four hours per day. Save Rs.216 a year for Rs.3 per unit. If there are 10such CFL bulbs the amount saved just for lights are Rs.2160.

Find the unnecessary lights in the house. E.g.: fancy lights, illumination lights etc. Decide that you will keep them switched off.
Take an oath that you won’t keep a single light switched on when not needed. Teach your children also to do so.
Practice not to use lights during day time. Allow natural light to get inside by keeping open the windows. Design your house in such a way that you don’t have to use lights inside the house during day time.
Keep the light fittings clean so that the brightness of light doesn’t diminish.
Arrange the lights in such a way that it is available only in the places required rather than lighting the whole room.
Use only CFL bulbs instead of ordinary bulbs. Use 11watts CFL bulbs instead of 60watt bulbs.

Use electronic chalks by removing the old copper chalks. Along with this, if you start using 36watt slim tubes, you can save about 30% of electricity.
Don’t misunderstand that a zero watt bulb doesn’t use even a single watt of electricity. Its original wattage is 15 to 28. If a 15watt bulb is kept switched on for a whole day, the amount of electricity used in two months is 21.6 units. i.e. Rs.64.80. Use an LED lamp instead of it. The electricity used is 1.44 units. The expense is just Rs.4.32.