Report Estimates LED Savings in Common Applications

From the U.S. DOE, here’s a summary (posted 5/21/13) of the DOE’s own new report titled Adoption of LEDs in Common Lighting Applications. It’s a 4p PDF.

From the text:

In those [9 specific] applications, roughly 49 million LED lamps and luminaireswere installed in 2012, saving approximately 71 trillion British thermal units (tBtu), which is equivalent to an annual energy cost savings of about $675 million.

That single amount from 2012 alone far exceeds DOE’s total SSL program investment of $270 million over the past 10 years.

What’s more, if those nine markets switched entirely to LEDs overnight, the annual source energy savings would approach 3,873 tBtu (nearly 3.9 quads), saving close to $37 billion in annual energy costs . . .

Source: http://electricalcontractor.com/?p=9947

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