Random Thoughts of Chris Tilley

British Colombia is projecting that we will need 30,000 GWh per year more electricity by 2027. The government is hoping that conservation will cover half of that need. Lets use 30,000 GWh per year for our calculations anyways.

So 30,000 GWh per year works out to 822 GWh per day. Switching one incandescent bulb for a compact fluorescent, run for four hours a day saves 46W times 4 hours or 184Wh. That means we would have to switch out 4.5 million incandescents. As of the 2001 census there were 1.6 million households in BC. So that works out to roughly 3 bulbs per household. Completely doable and that doesn't take in to account businesses or government. Banning incandescent would cover that total easily.