LED lighting has recently received increasing attention

International Energy Agency              According to the International Energy Agency, improving lighting efficiency by 20 percent can reduce total power consumption by 3.8 percent and cut total CO2 emissions by 0.8 percent.  LED lighting has recently received increasing attention due to the phasing out of inefficient lighting and reduction in LED lighting prices. Countries around the world will also be banning the use of traditional lighting sources.

The aim is to encourage use of more energy efficient lighting alternatives, such as compact fluorescent lamp (CFLs) and LED lamps. Brazil and Venezuela started to phase the incandescent out in 2005 and other nations are planning scheduled phase-outs: Australia, Ireland and Switzerland in 2009; Argentina, Italy, Russia and the United Kingdom by 2011; Canada in 2012; the European Union by September 2012, and the United States of America between 2012 and 2014.

Energy consumed by lighting in the UK by an average household takes up 35 percent of their yearly electricity bill. Traditional light bulbs, such as the GLS tungsten, produces 8000 times more green house gases than that of the newest energy efficient lamps.

With a disappearance of traditional light sources we need to find new ways to be eco-friendly in our lighting, while trying to achieve the same types and quality of light for lighting designs. Fluorescents and LED’s have greatly advanced in technology and become superior to the traditional light sources due to the low energy consumption, long lamp life and soft warm light they can create.