The Trump administration gave old fashioned, incandescent lightbulbs a holiday gift Friday: a new lease on life.
The Trump administration gave old-fashioned, incandescent lightbulbs a holiday gift Friday: a new lease on life.Friday that it would not impose stricter energy efficiency standards for “general service” lightbulbs set to take effect Jan. 1, on the grounds that they “are not economically justified.” The move affects roughly 3 billion — nearly half — of the bulbs in sockets in U.S. homes.
The regulatory rollback would probably benefit the makers of GE, Sylvania and Philips brand bulbs. GE has been seeking a buyer for its GE Lighting unit. The Dutch conglomerate Philips has been spun off as a separate entity called Signify. And Sylvania’s lighting operations were sold to a consortium including Chinese banks that renamed the lighting business Ledvance.
Andrew deLaski, president of the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, said consumers can buy a 60 watt-equivalent incandescent bulb at Home Depot for 97 cents and a 60-watt equivalent LED bulb for just $1.24. Yet about half of the bulbs in use in U.S. homes are still traditional incandescent bulbs.
Five states — California, Colorado, Nevada, Washington and Vermont — have enacted identical standards from the Obama-era ones, which will take effect Jan. 1. Two lighting associations are suing to try to block California’s new lightbulb requirements from taking effect.
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