Advantages of LED Lights Over
Incandescent Lights

LED lights/bubs have many advantages over more traditional lights, such as incandescent. Here are just some of their highly touted advantages:

• Smaller carbon footprint––by 2030, the Canadian government predicts LEDs have the potential to cut general lighting energy in half, saving both energy costs and carbon emissions.

• More efficient––unlike many fixture-type lights (such as under-cabinet and recessed lights) where only 50 to 60 percent of the total light production is emitted, LEDs emit light in a specific direction, with 80 to 90 percent of their energy becoming light.

• Smaller in size––the LED chips are small and thin, forgoing bigger glass bulbs, as they’re mounted in thin and narrow containers.

• Cooler in temperature––LEDs run much cooler than incandescent hot bulbs, which have the ability to start fires.

• Longer lifespan––an LED light lifespan is estimated to be at least 40,000 hours, which is 15 to 20 years (contingent upon how long it’s on each day).

• More durable––since LEDs have no filaments, they can resist heavy vibrations, shock, and external impacts.

• More lighting applications––they have many more lighting applications than their predecessors due to many of their unique characteristics (many just mentioned), such as their resistance to vibration and breakage, their smaller size, their ease of maintenance and long life, how well they perform in cold temperatures, their lack of ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) emissions, how they turn on instantly, their ability to be dimmed, and their ability to provide color control.