{"id":2771,"date":"2022-09-30T09:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:17:32","slug":"california-bans-fluorescent-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/california-bans-fluorescent-lamps\/","title":{"rendered":"California Bans Fluorescent Lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week California joined Vermont and the European Union in enacting a ban on fluorescent lamps. \u00a0The California ban covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Screw or bayonet base CFLs beginning January 1, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Pin-based CFLs beginning January 1, 2025<\/li>\n<li>Linear fluorescent lamps (aka fluorescent tubes) beginning January 1, 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ban isn&#8217;t complete because there are some specialty fluorescents that are not included, such as those used for copiers and scanners, disinfection, sunlamps for tanning, and specialized lamps for medical purposes. \u00a0However, it does apply to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CFLs of all tube diameters and all tube lengths, including PL, spiral, twin tube, triple tube, 2D, U-bend, and circular<\/li>\n<li>Linear fluorescents including:\n<ul>\n<li>single-pin, two-pin, and recessed double contact<\/li>\n<li>all tube diameters, including T5, T8, T10, and T12<\/li>\n<li>all tube lengths from 6&#8243; to 8&#8242;<\/li>\n<li>all lamp shapes, including U-bend and circular<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over the next few years hundreds of thousands, probably millions, of fixtures will need to be replaced or, if possible, converted with LED retrofit lamps. \u00a0From the perspective of efficiency and quality of light replacement is certainly preferred, but it won&#8217;t be cheap. \u00a0It&#8217;s not clear if California or utilities will offer any sort of financing to make the change.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the law <a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2208&amp;version=20210AB220894CHP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week California joined Vermont and the European Union in enacting a ban on fluorescent lamps. \u00a0The California ban covers: Screw or bayonet base CFLs beginning January 1, 2024 Pin-based CFLs beginning January 1, 2025 Linear fluorescent lamps (aka fluorescent tubes) beginning January 1, 2025 The ban isn&#8217;t complete because there are some specialty fluorescents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/california-bans-fluorescent-lamps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California Bans Fluorescent Lamps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,19,4],"tags":[31,77],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-codes","category-lighting-profession","category-sustainability","tag-cfl","tag-fluorescent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-IH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4255,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/hello-new-year-goodbye-fluorescent-lamps\/","url_meta":{"origin":2771,"position":0},"title":"Hello New Year, Goodbye Fluorescent Lamps","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"January 1, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"At this point no one should be specifying fluorescent lamps except in extremely specific situations (for example, I recently specified linear fluorescents and linear LED retrofit lamps in a themed environment set in the 1970s). \u00a0Why? 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