2009 IECC Requires 50% of Lamps in Home to be High-Efficacy
Here’s an article I wrote for the July issue of Electrical Contractor Magazine on the topic of a new residential lighting provision in the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), used by most states as the basis of their residential energy codes, that requires 50% of lamps in newly built homes to be “high efficacy”–that is, fluorescent, at least at this point.
The approach has its critics. What do you think?
Check out the article here.
I have been encouraging my clients to use 100% fluorescent in their kitchens and baths for 15 years now. Most of them have done it too! It is MUCH easier today, with all the innovations in fixtures, lamps, controls, LEDs, etc.