Let the hoarding of 60-watt and 40-watt bulbs begin(usatoday.com) |
Let the hoarding of 60-watt and 40-watt bulbs begin(usatoday.com) |
Now I'm going to have to design some kind of replacement that's LED lighting and some kind of heating coil. :/
EIA US Data:
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=99&t=3
"EIA estimates that in 2011, about 461 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity were used for lighting by the residential and commercial sectors. This was equal to about 17% of the total electricity consumed by both of these sectors and about 12% of total U.S. electricity consumption.
Residential lighting consumption was about 186 billion kWh or 13% of all residential electricity consumption.
The commercial sector, which includes commercial and institutional buildings and public street and highway lighting, consumed about 275 billion kWh for lighting or 21% of commercial sector electricity consumption in 2011.
EIA does not have an estimate for only public street and highway lighting.
Our most recent data available indicates that in 2006, 63 billion kWh were consumed for lighting in manufacturing facilities, which was equal to about 2% of total U.S. electricity consumption in 2006."
From your numbers I get that 4.4% of US electrical consumption is residential lighting. So switching out all the existing residential incandescent lighting would be useful, but not all that significant when looking at the bigger picture. If compared against energy consumption in general, residential lighting pretty much disappears.