The main reason we’ve included LED in our recommendations, is because they’re quite eco-friendly, compared to all other options. LED produce much more light per watt of electricity. To be precise they produce around 18-22 lumens per watt, much higher than the incandescent and fluorescent lamps. This means they use less power to produce more, which cumulatively adds up to a lot of energy savings. In fact, the US DOE estimates that if LED lighting were used on a large scale, it would convert to savings of $265 billion, reduce electricity demand for lighting purposes by 33% ; and avoid the set up of 40 power plants across the country.
Also, every time you turn on the lights, you’re contributing to CO2 emissions to the tune of 196 pounds per year, for every light bulb in your house. LED lamps bring this to just 63 pounds every year. LED lighting is also non-toxic, it does not contain mercury like fluorescent lamps and thus recycling them is less hazardous. A few other benefits:
• LEDs are extremely small and are available in different colours. This goes well when you try to get creative with lighting in your house.
• LEDs can be dimmed quite easily. Repeated on-off cycles don’t damage LEDs the way they damage other lights. Thus, using LEDs for Christmas lighting is the ideal option
• They’re shock resistant, not fragile like usual bulbs.

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