Eco-Friendly LED Christmas Lights Explained

The holiday season can get expensive, so it is nice to know you can save a bit on your electric bill by using LED Christmas lights. Also, LED (light-emitting diodes) lights are more environmentally friendly. If you are considering replacing your conventional Christmas bulbs with LED ones, here are some facts and information on LEDs to keep in mind.

1. More energy-efficient and durable
LEDs use 3% to 33% less energy than incandescent bulbs, and they can burn for more than 4,000 hours (some sources say about 35,000 hours, or 4 years of continual usage). Incandescent Christmas bulbs were shown to burn out in less than 2,000 hours. LEDs are also brighter, and when one bulb burns out, the rest of the strand stays lit.

2. Better for the environment
Because of their durability, you are not going to be throwing away strings of lights every year, thus saving landfills a lot of non-biodegradable plastic. And using less electricity means using less fossil fuels, since it is the burning of coal and other non-renewable energy sources that produces electricity.

LEDs even come in solar-powered varieties that will turn on automatically when evening falls and turn themselves off when it gets lighter. During the day, the sun charges the small battery that powers the lights. As far as Christmas lights go, this is about as green as it gets!

3. Cost
At around 7 lights per dollar, LEDs are not necessarily more expensive than high-quality incandescents. If the LEDs you are considering seem much more expensive, check how many lights are offered in the package. LEDs come in a wider variety of configurations, containing up to 200 bulbs (the average incandescent Christmas bulb strands do not go over 150 bulbs). Also, bear in mind the energy and replacement savings.

4. Safer
LED lights do not get hot to the touch, unlike incandescent Christmas bulbs, which are responsible for 14 deaths by Christmas tree fires every year. And LEDs are encased in plastic, not glass, so breakage and dangerous glass shards are not an issue.

5. Less hassle
Not only will you not have to replace your LED strands every year, but storage is easier due to the thickness of the strand wire. It tangles much less easily than traditional light strands.

In the past, LED Christmas lights only came in the color red, and did not blink. Now, they come in a variety of colors and shapes, and blinking LEDs are now on the market.

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