When it comes to holiday lighting, did you know…

The potential annual energy savings of a complete market shift to LED holiday lights is approximately 21.9 TBtu of primary energy consumption. That’s 6.4 trillion watts of energy! - U.S. Department of Energy The total amount of energy consumed by holiday lighting in 2002 was 2.22 terawatt-hours. To put that in perspective, 1 terawatt-hour could run 1.1 million homes for an entire month! (Based on an average home using 900 kilowatt-hours per month) - U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Energy Information Administration The potential monthly increase in a homeowner’s power bills due to holiday lighting is $50 - Seattle City Light, Seattle’s municipal electric utility The cost to run large incandescent holiday bulbs for eight hours a day for one month is 177 times more expensive than to run LED bulbs. (Based on 10 strands of lights at $0.0853 per kilowatt-hour) - Alliance to Save Energy In the making of feature film Deck the Halls: At full intensity the 14,300 LED nodes drew just 7,150 watts of energy – the equivalent of four average hairdryers. By comparison, wrapping the house in the same fashion with conventional exterior string lights* would have drawn approximately 100,100 watts – 14 times more than the LED installation -- yet without the capability for programmable effects. The electrical current draw of the entire LED installation was 126 amps – which is the approximate draw of 1.3 average households. By comparison, the same configuration using conventional exterior string lights* would have drawn 812 amps -- approximately 6.5 times more than the LED installation, or the equivalent of 8 houses’ worth of power. *Calculations based on conventional 7-watt C9 lamps Photo Credit: Doane Gregory View the full press release about Color Kinetics’ role in Deck the Halls. View a 30-second trailer of the movie. View a second trailer of Deck the Halls.