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Related: About this forumLED lightbulb prices fall 12% in 2013
Story at http://on.ft.com/19X6ndt
You're also getting more bang, or light, for your buck - over the past twelve months the lumens per dollar ratio of LED bulbs has increased by 31 per cent to 29.9 lumens per dollar.
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)The Financial Times requires that you register to read their content and they charge.
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)and there isn't much more to be seen at the story anyway.
FBaggins
(26,760 posts)Maybe they're talking about all LED options (screens, flashlights, etc)...
... but my impression has been that LEDs that replace "regular" bulbs (comparable shape/size/brightness) have fallen by closer to 50% over the last year.
It's certainly moved into a range that I'm willing to shop at... and 12% wouldn't be a big enough difference.
On edit -
dropping the average retail price of an LED bulb to $24.50.
I should have looked at the specifics. I'm paying closer to $10/bulb for "normal" shaped, dimmable LEDs.
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)FBaggins
(26,760 posts)I'm pretty sure that it was Costco.
3-packs of globes (vanity-type that I actually prefer to the old 40-watt bulbs), 60watt equivalent "standard" shaped bulbs, and 40-watt equivalent narrow-base candle-type that take some getting used to (unless they're covered/shaded). I think they were all in the just-under-$30 range. All can be dimmed.
hunter
(38,328 posts)Just as they subsidize CFLs.
I'm not buying CFL's anymore, but it will probably be a decade or more before I replace the last of them. I had quite a few CFLs last more than a decade, some of them in daily use.
Some CFL brands were crap, but PG&E seemed to avoid subsidizing those. I hope the same is true of their LED subsidies.
cprise
(8,445 posts)I won't bother switching from CFLs to LEDs for the time being... the latter are all either stuck at 80CRI or 2700K.
I'm looking for bulbs that are 90+CRI and 3000-3500K.