{"id":648,"date":"2007-10-03T17:52:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T00:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/pge-cfl-giveaway\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T17:52:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T00:52:52","slug":"pge-cfl-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/pge-cfl-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"PG&E CFL Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you live in Pacific Gas & Electric’s service area, you can get a great deal on CFLs. Read the press release<\/a> and plan to go replace the bulbs that are most appropriate. I wrote an article about this about a month ago<\/a> (coincidentally, it’s the most popular article I’ve ever written with over 40,000 unique visits to date…)
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\nSteps to take advantage of this offer:<\/p>\n

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  1. Take an inventory of your lighting, make sure to note:<\/li>\n
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    1. Wattage of bulbs<\/li>\n
    2. Location of the bulbs<\/li>\n
    3. Special features: does it need dimmable or three-way capability? Is it an enclosed, recessed, specialty, or outdoor fixture?<\/li>\n
    4. How frequently is the light used? Higher use lighting provides higher benefits<\/li>\n
    5. Does the light require instant 100% illumination (i.e. closets and refrigerators)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    6. Post inventory, analyze the result to decide how many bulbs and of what wattage it makes sense to replace<\/li>\n
    7. Visit the closest PG&E distribution center and pick up your bulbs<\/a><\/li>\n
    8. Plan a time to simply replace the old bulbs with new in one fell swoop (note: it’s handy to have a ladder, step stool, and a container to hold old bulbs)<\/li>\n
    9. Be careful with the CFLs, if they break, make sure to follow clean-up instructions due to mercury content<\/a><\/li>\n
    10. Recycle your old bulbs in the glass stream<\/li>\n
    11. When your CFLs burn out, 6,000+ hours from now…make sure to properly recycle them<\/a><\/li>\n
    12. Compare your electricity usage with PG&E’s handy online tool<\/a>, you should see savings vs. the same month last year and the prior month<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Good luck, if you do this, please leave a comment and let us know how it went. We’ll modify this process to make it work as generally as possible. The above process is what I used when replacing 83 bulbs in June of this year. I’m now saving around 200kwh\/month and $45\/month<\/a>…Not a bad outcome. Using the PG&E promotion, you can really get this effect on the cheap. Go take advantage of it!
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      \nIf you don’t live in the PG&E service area, check with your utility. Many are doing similar promotions and subsidize energy efficient lighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      If you live in Pacific Gas & Electric’s service area, you can get a great deal on CFLs. Read the press release and plan to go replace the bulbs that are most appropriate. I wrote an article about this about a month ago (coincidentally, it’s the most popular article I’ve ever written with over 40,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}