Contemplative time despite the energy crisis?
Expert gives saving tips for the Christmas lights
Created: 2022-11-14 09:31
By: Anna Lorenz
Sparkling lights are an integral part of the Advent season.
If you want to save electricity but don't want to do without the festive lighting, you should definitely know these tips.
Freiburg – 19.9 billion lights, lined up on fairy lights, go on nationwide at Christmas – that was the result of a representative YouGov survey.
Energy supplier Lichtblick converted the numbers and found out that without the festive lighting, the annual energy requirements of 205,000 households could be saved.
Energy crisis: Christmas without fairy lights?
Does not have to be!
But is doing without any illuminating Christmas decorations really the right way through the energy crisis?
29 percent of those surveyed stated that they wanted to at least reduce the festive lighting – however, for the vast majority of citizens, doing without it completely is out of the question.
So how not to leave the contemplative time in the dark and still keep the electricity bill low?
The Öko-Institut is currently giving consumers several recommendations for this.
Because making Christmas lights a controversial topic this year is certainly difficult to reconcile with "peaceful holidays".
Magic lights at Christmas: This is how the holiday lighting works despite the energy crisis
According to this, there is already a high savings potential when choosing the chain of lights: those who rely on LEDs use around 80 percent less electricity than would be the case with conventional Christmas lighting systems.
As Tobias Schleicher, sustainability expert at the Freiburg location, emphasizes, switching the decoration on and off in a targeted manner can also significantly reduce energy consumption.
"A timer is useful for this," says Schleicher.
Once set, you can leave the focus on the meter reading to the ballast.
In addition, it should be considered - perhaps also for reasons of contemplation - to follow the credo "less is more" for the Christmas decorations this year.
And if you really know how it works without the fire brigade, you can still rely on a cozy candle ambience.
