POLAND BULBS
January 1st, 2005
KEITH NUTHALLTHE GLOBAL Environment Facility (GEF), an independent international funding organisation, is claiming to have converted Polish power consumers to using low energy compact fluorescent lamps. The GEF's Poland Efficient Lighting Project claims when it started work in 1995, only 10% of Polish homes used such lights, by 1998 this was 33% and now it is 50%. The project was initially hindered by fluorescent lamps costing 30 times more than standard lights. But it fuelled demand using consumer information campaigns about lowering electricity bills and ...
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