Compact Fluorescent Lighting

Not surprisingly, some of GE's smartest ecomagination products are light bulbs.

Specifically, Compact Fluorescent Lighting. In fact, they're so efficient, over 90 percent of GE's CFLs are ENERGY STAR®-qualified.

GE's compact fluorescent light bulbs are poised to drastically reduce energy consumption compared to traditional incandescent bulbs for residential and commercial customers.

Over 90 percent of GE's compact fluorescent light bulbs are ENERGY STAR® - qualified. Compact fluorescent light bulbs offer energy savings of 70 percent to 75 percent and last up to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs. Because they turn on flicker-free, fit in most fixtures and produce excellent color rendering, GE's compact fluorescent light bulbs are products of ecomagination that any household can appreciate.

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GE has over 70 models of energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs that are comparable to our traditional incandescent bulbs in brightness and features.

GE's compact fluorescent light bulbs cost less than one-third as much to operate annually as traditional incandescent bulbs and, in most cases, provide the same or greater brightness.

GE's compact fluorescent light bulb with brightness equivalent to a 100-watt incandescent bulb pays for itself in energy savings in less than one year.

Many GE compact fluorescent light bulbs last more than five years and up to 10 times as long as traditional incandescent bulbs, saving you the time needed to buy and change bulbs.

GE's longest-lasting compact fluorescent light bulb is rated for 15,000 hours. GE is a leader in bulb life in many compact fluorescent lighting categories.

Switching four 60-watt incandescent bulbs to equivalent compact fluorescent light bulbs from GE will save a household more than US$ 100 over the life of the bulbs, including the higher initial cost of buying compact fluorescent light bulbs.

A hotel that switched 300 100-watt incandescent bulbs to comparable GE compact fluorescent light bulbs could save more than US$ 11,000 over the bulbs' lives, including the higher initial cost of buying compact fluorescent light bulbs.

If every household in the U.S. replaced just one 100-watt incandescent light bulb with a GE compact fluorescent light bulb, in each year of the compact fluorescent light bulb's life, we would reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as keeping 1.5 million cars off the road for a year. Over the bulb's lifetime, we would save enough energy to power more than one million U.S. homes for an entire year.