{"id":597,"date":"2016-02-15T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2016-02-15T11:49:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T16:49:40","slug":"ge-to-stop-manufacturing-cfls-by-end-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"GE To Stop Manufacturing CFLs By End Of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

In another example of LEDs growing dominance in\u00a0the lighting industry, General Electric has announced<\/a> that it is “breaking up” with CFL lamps, and that it will stop manufacturing and sales of spiral retrofit lamps in the U.S. by the end of this year. \u00a0 \u00a0According GE,\u00a0CFLs and LEDs each accounted for about 15\u00a0percent of lamps sales last year. \u00a0The sales of LEDs are increasing and sales of CFLs are decreasing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In another example of LEDs growing dominance in\u00a0the lighting industry, General Electric has announced that it is “breaking up” with CFL lamps, and that it will stop manufacturing and sales of spiral retrofit lamps in the U.S. by the end of this year. \u00a0 \u00a0According GE,\u00a0CFLs and LEDs each accounted for about 15\u00a0percent of lamps … Continue reading GE To Stop Manufacturing CFLs By End Of 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[13],"tags":[31,30],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lamps","tag-cfl","tag-led"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-9D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2771,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=2771","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":0},"title":"California Bans Fluorescent Lamps","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"September 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"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't complete because\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Codes"","block_context":{"text":"Codes","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4255,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=4255","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":1},"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? \u00a0Not only are LEDs more energy efficient, but more bans go into effect today\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Lamps"","block_context":{"text":"Lamps","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":98,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=98","url_meta":{"origin":597,"position":2},"title":"Basking in a New Glow","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"February 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The New York times has an \"I Heart LEDs\" article in today's paper that leaves out some important information about evaluating them. \u00a0Here are some additional thoughts. 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