​Redding Residents Join Eversource for Community-Wide Light Bulb Swap

From Eversource Energy: Nearly 200 Redding residents joined Eversource and Energize Connecticut at a community-wide light bulb swap to exchange their old, inefficient light bulbs for new ENERGY STAR® LED bulbs, free of charge.

Each Redding resident who swapped five of their home’s incandescent bulbs for energy-efficient LEDs will be expected to save more than $50 in annual energy costs. Over the lifetime of the new LED bulbs, they will collectively save over $230,000 combined.

Redding used a $5,000 Bright Idea Grant for the exchange, as part of their participation in Energize Connecticut’s Clean Energy Communities (CEC) program, a nationally-recognized initiative that helps Connecticut cities and towns save energy and increase the installation of renewable energy. Since signing the CEC pledge in 2015, Redding has worked with Eversource to reach its energy goals and reduce municipal building energy consumption by 20 percent by 2018.

Photo courtesy of Eversource (Redding First Selectman Julia Pemberton and Ron Araujo, Eversource Energy Efficiency, handing out LEDs during the community bulb swap.)