Q: Does this affect all lightbulbs? What about specialty bulbs?
A: No, the new standards do not affect all bulbs. Various specialty bulbs are exempt, including appliance bulbs, heavy-duty bulbs, colored lights, three-way bulbs, and others.
The new energy efficiency standards will affect conventional, pear-shaped medium size screw-in, lightbulbs, and some reflector bulbs like the ones we use in traditional lighting fixtures in our homes.
Exemptions: There are 22 types of traditional incandescent lamps that are exempt. DOE will monitor sales of these exempted lamp types after the legislation is implemented. If it is determined that of any one of these exempted lamp types doubles in sales, EISA requires DOE to establish an energy conservation standard for the particular lamp type. This provision will prohibit any one of these exempted lamp types from taking market share from the general service lamps that are affected by the EISA efficiency standards.
- Appliance lamp
- Black light lamp
- Bug lamp
- Colored lamp
- Infrared lamp
- Left-hand thread lamp
- Marine lamp
- Marine's signal service lamp
- Mine service lamp
- Plant light lamp
- Reflector lamp
- Rough service lamp
- Shatter-resistant lamp (including shatter-proof & shatter-protected)
- Sign service lamp
- Silver bowl lamp
- Showcase lamp
- 3-way incandescent lamp
- Traffic signal lamp
- Vibration service lamp
- G shape lamp (as defined in ANSI C78.20-2003 and C79.1-2002) with a diameter of 5" or more
- T shape lamp (as defined in ANSI C78.20-2003 and C79.1-2002) and that uses no more than 40W or has a length of more than 10"
- B, BA, CA, F, G16-1/2, G-25, G-30, S, or M-14 lamp (as defined in ANSI C78.20-2003 and C79.1-2002) of 40W or less
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Frequently Asked Questions: Lighting Choices to Save You Money | Department of Energy