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replacing household lights with LED bulbs, advice sort please
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Nope sorry, even then it seems very high.
0.18kW x 16 hoursis almost 3kWh - how powerful is your shower, and do you take really long ones?
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Not only that but research suggests that a lot of the potential energy saving has also been mitigated by people using the cost saving to install more lights (many outdoors) ...coffeehound said:Another factor with LEDs is people can be happier to leave the lights on for longer. So that might blunt the savings that the raw wattages suggest
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