The california energy commission voted on november 13 2019 to ban the sale of inefficient light bulbs starting january 1 2020.
Can you still buy incandescent light bulbs in california.
Posted on july 7 2019.
Personally i actually prefer led bulbs over incandescents but i know many of you do not.
If you live in california you can say goodbye to incandescent and halogen light bulbs.
On tuesday a federal judge in sacramento upheld the new california law than bans incandescent and other types of energy inefficient light bulbs.
According to the natural resource defense council ndrc the switch away from incandescent bulbs will save people and businesses in california more than 1 billion a year in energy savings.
By now you re probably aware that the world is transitioning away from incandescent light bulbs and more or less replacing them with energy efficient led bulbs.
Yes you can still buy incandescent light bulbs.
Under environmental regulations that take effect that.
It s the result of years of work to make the state more energy efficient.
In california those standards culminate this year in a requirement that bulbs must use about 65 less energy to cast the same amount of light a standard too high for incandescent technology to.
From the ndrc website.