CFL Update

As I mentioned here I replaced a good portion of the lights that the kids leave on with CFL bulbs. This was primarily done out of frustration with the ever north moving cost of electricity costs in my house. This is the first month with all of my CFL bulbs in place. So what did I get for the deal?

In comparison with last year's billing cycle I used 600kWh less this billing cycle than last year. I don't attribute all this to the discontinuation of incandescent bulbs in my house as in April of last year I also decommissioned an older server that was consuming a lot of power while serving out a relatively low visited website (pics.berrett.org. But still each of the past 3 months since having the CFL's in place I have continued to reduce power consumption in the home month over month.

This summer will be interesting in comparison with last summer.