The standard incandescent bulbs currently lighting your home have changed very little from Thomas Edison's first light bulb in 1879.  Only 10 percent of the energy used by these standard bulbs contribute to light; the other 90 percent is wasted as heat.

ENERGY STAR® -qualified compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) use 75% less energy than an incandescent lighbulb, so they save you money.  And CFLs last up to 10 times longer! 

Did you know?  The average home has approximately 30 lights.  By replacing the five most frequently used bulbs with ENERGY STAR-qualified bulbs, you can save more than $60 each year in energy costs? (based on a minimum life of 6,000 hours at $0.10 kWh).  If every household in the US did this, we'd reduce air pollution from power plants equal to what's generated by 8 million cars each year!

Our DULUX EL® compact fluorescent lamps have:

Look for the ENERGY STAR label on these products:

In addition, OSRAM SYLVANIA also manufactures two residential ballasts that comply with FCC-Consumer requirements, which allows users to install them into ENERGY STAR qualified light fixtures to maintain the ENERGY STAR compliance.

Furthermore, many of the consumer electronics products that carry the SYLVANIA name also carry the ENERGY STAR label.