Can You Still Buy Incandescent Light Bulbs In California

If you live in california you can say goodbye to incandescent and halogen light bulbs.

Can you still buy incandescent light bulbs in california.

In california those standards culminate this year in a requirement that bulbs must use about 65 less energy to cast the same amount of light a standard too high for incandescent technology to. According to the natural resource defense council ndrc the switch away from incandescent bulbs will save people and businesses in california more than 1 billion a year in energy savings. This decision didn t just suddenly happen. Personally i actually prefer led bulbs over incandescents but i know many of you do not.

The california energy commission voted on november 13 2019 to ban the sale of inefficient light bulbs starting january 1 2020. Yes you can still buy incandescent light bulbs. On tuesday a federal judge in sacramento upheld the new california law than bans incandescent and other types of energy inefficient light bulbs. By now you re probably aware that the world is transitioning away from incandescent light bulbs and more or less replacing them with energy efficient led bulbs.

It s the result of years of work to make the state more energy efficient. As a result stores will not be allowed to sell incandescent light bulbs made after january 1 2018. From the ndrc website.