Interior Lighting

If your home uses lots of those wonderful recessed designer lights in your ceiling (each at 75 to 150 Watts of halogen-based light production) you might have noticed your power bill moving toward that ceiling recently. Consider compact fluorescent light fixtures (the color spectrum of output is very close to incandescent these days) to reduce your interior lighting needs by up to 75%. Why? If you have 30 lights on, each rated at 100 Watts (average throughout the house) for 4 hours per night (average throughout the year), that means 3 kW for each hour of operation, or 360 kWh per month on average, which by itself will push your home's power bill above PG&E's "baseline" rate of consumption.

If your business uses lots of interior lighting, and you've installed the most efficient lighting you can, and your power costs are still more than 8 cents per kWh, call us today without delay. Don't keep yourself in the dark about the economic benefits of solar electricity any longer.