An entrepreneur from Columbia City has established a new company to fulfill the desire of U.S. consumers to save time, money and energy while going green. Kevin P. McGloughlin, who is a client of the Northeast Indiana Small Business Development Center (NEISBDC), recently opened GreenLighting4U, LLC to provide a unique service to area homeowners.

Professional installers from GreenLighting4U will come into an individual’s home and replace all of the incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). “Compact fluorescent lamps can significantly reduce the cost of your energy bills,” according to McGloughlin. “That’s because CFLs give off the same amount of light, but use fewer watts.” He estimates that an average household will save $167.33 in the first year after all the incandescent lights are replaced with CFLs.

McGloughlin points to a statement on the Energy Star Web site (www.energystar.gov) to drive home the benefits of using compact fluorescent light bulbs. “If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an Energy Star qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars,” according to Energy Star.

In addition to saving money and conserving energy, customers of GreenLighting4U will also save time. Not only will GL4U install all the energy-saving light bulbs within the home, but the homeowners will not have to replace their light bulbs as often, since the CFLs last up to 10 times longer than the incandescent bulbs. GL4U backs up its product by guaranteeing to replace any CFL that fails within two years of installation. “We will send you a replacement and recycle the failed unit,” McGloughlin says.

The standard charge per home for GreenLighting4U to replace a maximum of 40 incandescent bulbs with standard compact fluorescent lamps is $150. If additional standard CFLs are needed, they will be added for a charge of $2.50 each; and if a total of only 30 bulbs are replaced within the home, the charge is reduced to $125. There is an additional charge for nonstandard bulbs such as dimmable, three-way, or other types of CFLs.

I would definately use this service if there was one in my area.