{"id":9030,"date":"2011-05-31T08:02:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2011-05-31T09:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T13:01:06","slug":"governments-cfl-distribution-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/governments-cfl-distribution-ends","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s CFL Distribution Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9041\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9041\" title=\"energy-bulbs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/energy-bulbs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/energy-bulbs.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/energy-bulbs-133x150.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Government is encouraging all Bahamians to make the responsible switch to CFLs because residential lighting contributes to 20 percent of an individual\u2019s energy consumption.  (BIS Photo \/ Gena Gibbs).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nassau, The Bahamas \u2013 The Ministry of the Environment wants the public to be aware that the Compact Florescent Lamp (CFL) Programme came to a close.\u00a0 The government programme was designed to lower the energy demand on the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC).<\/p>\n<p>A lower demand on electricity translates into fewer blackouts from BEC and less greenhouse gases being produced by BEC and released into the atmosphere.\u00a0 This is how the individual Bahamian can help to save The Bahamas and the global environment.<\/p>\n<p>The government is encouraging all Bahamians to make the responsible switch to CFLs because residential lighting contributes to 20 percent of an individual\u2019s energy consumption.\u00a0 The CFLs save money by drawing about 75 percent less power than a regular bulb.<\/p>\n<p>On May 28, the CFL lamp giveaway ended as a part of the government\u2019s plan to reduce the intensity of energy consumption through the measures provided in the National Energy Policy.\u00a0 Qualified persons appeared to exchange their incandescent bulbs and collect the CFLs at the designated locations.<br \/>\nThe government has decided to give\u00a0 the remaining bulbs to BEC customers that can produce a past bill that proves their household consumption is 600 KiloWatts.\u00a0 They will also accept the equivalent monthly average payment of $200 per month to meet the programme\u2019s requirements.<\/p>\n<p>CFL lamps are energy saving bulbs that harness energy into a constant flow of light.\u00a0 They are set to replace the popular and inexpensive incandescent bulbs, which turn energy into heat entropy.\u00a0 It has been proven that the heat these bulbs generate wastes electricity and causes the consumer to spend more on air-conditioning to cool the room that the light is being burned in.<\/p>\n<p>The Inter-Developmental Bank (IDB) has spent $4 Million to fund the promotion of the government\u2019s energy-saving programme.\u00a0 For further information, members of the public are asked to contact the BEST Commission in the Ministry of the Environment.<\/p>\n<p>By Gena Gibbs<br \/>\nBAHAMAS INFORMATION SERVICES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of the Environment wants the public to be aware that the Compact Florescent Lamp (CFL) Programme came to a close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-9030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-bec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}