L.E.D. Lights

This year use holiday LED light strings to decorate your Christmas tree, windows, or entire house. These energy-efficient light strings use a new light-emitting diode (LED) technology that is superior to standard incandescent light strings.

Compared to holiday incandescent light bulbs, holiday LED strings:

• use over 80% less energy;
• last at least 7 times longer;
• are more durable, with no filaments or glass bulbs to break; and
• produce very little heat, reducing the risk of fire.

The energy cost of operating one of these strings is, therefore, a fraction of the cost of conventional holiday lighting. For example:

• the cost of using* four strings of regular (5 Watt bulb) lights is around $3.90.
• the cost of using* four strings of LED “strawberry” lights is around $0.10.

*These estimates are based on using the light strings 5 hours a day for 31 days.

Holiday LED bulbs come in a variety of shapes although the most common style is the "strawberry" shaped C-6* bulb. Choose from red, green, yellow, blue and white bulbs, generally in strings of 35 or 70 lights.
*C-6 designates the width of the bulb in eighths of an inch; thus C-6 is 6/8". Traditional holiday lights are C-7 or C-9 – typically 5W and 7W respectively.

Other Savings
Timers and photocells can also save you energy and money by automatically turning your lights on at dusk and turning them off at a scheduled time.

This page last updated 2012-02-06.