Light ban: which lamps will remain on store shelves in 2020

Russia cannot do without reforms. One of them, energy-saving, is aimed at the ordinary population of our country. It seems that we, ordinary residents, use electricity most of all for our own domestic purposes. We consume it without measure and any restrictions. We waste money on purpose and through our uneconomical actions cause enormous damage to the national economy.

A new round of prohibitions

In order to save money, we decided not just to limit energy consumption in numbers, as it was until now, 75 kW per person, but to ban some types of light bulbs that we have long been accustomed to.

Compact fluorescent light bulbs are the first to be banned., with an ordinary base for a standard electric socket. Previously, we were forced, almost by force, to purchase and implement this miracle at home. Aggressive advertising recognized them as the most energy-saving, but now they have become ineffective. Well, God bless them.

Second are prohibited low efficiency LED luminaires, below 85 lumens per kilowatt. These are cylindrical long tubes that are more often used in industrial premises than at home, where they are very inconvenient to use. They often fight due to their fragility and awkward shape.

A the most harmful lamps containing high-pressure mercury are the last to be banned. But we don’t need to worry here. Such monsters are used very rarely in households.They are most often used by the state and various organizations for street lighting. So let them worry.

Also prohibited are lamps with high-pressure mercury lamps used for outdoor lighting.

Surprise for organizations

From the first of January next year, the state has prepared a surprise for its own organizations and for large economic entities, such as house management companies, housing departments and others like them.

All compact and tubular fluorescent light bulbs are prohibited for use. To these will be added starters for lamps in public places and industrial premises, as well as all high-pressure mercury lamps. At the same time, high-pressure sodium lamps will also be banned and metal halides will be removed from spotlights. All inductions will go there too. And, to the heap - all the lamps with high-pressure mercury lamps.

This is the kind of restructuring that awaits the national economy next year.