Replacing incandescent lights with energy-efficient fluorescent

Replacing incandescent lights with energy-efficient fluorescent

Replacing incandescent lights with energy-efficient fluorescent lights can reduce the lighting energy consumption to one-fourth of what it was before. The energy consumed by the lamps is eventually converted to heat, and thus switching to energy-efficient lighting also reduces the cooling load in summer but increases the heating load in winter. Consider a building that is heated by a natural gas furnace with an efficiency of 80 percent and cooled by an air conditioner with a COP of 3.5. If electricity costs $0.08/kWh and natural gas costs $1.40/therm, determine if efficient lighting will increase or decrease the total energy cost of the building (a) in summer and (b) in winter.

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