The National Trust Changes To Energy Saving Light Bulbs

BBC Breakfast Coverage of The National Trust’s ‘Big Switch’ With the impacts of climate change increasingly affecting the historic buildings, gardens, countryside and coast in The National Trust’s care, they take considerable time and energy to reduce their carbon footprint and change their use of technology to increase efficiency and to conserve energy. Lighting Services met with The National Trust over a year ago to help bring about change in both application and education of energy saving lighting within The Trust. This was the start of the ‘Big Switch’, a widely known about conversion from old to new technology. The ‘Big Switch’ quickly became the term given to a three way project between The National Trust, Lighting Services and Philips Lighting. The aim? To convert every single lamp, in every single property to an energy saving or longer life equivalent where possible. With nearly five hundred different properties it was always going to be a challenge to get the individuals within the Trust to understand what to change to. With the variety of energy savers on the market there was also the added problem of choosing the correct equivalent for the correct application. With hundreds of historically sensitive areas within the National Trust’s properties it was simply not just a case of switching incandescent to compact fluorescent. It was to be a much more complex exercise. An example of the complexity was illustrated with the use of a new lamp which was launched in …

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