A wide range of compact fluorescent lighting (CFL) fixtures are now available whose characteristics are far superior to earlier models.

Lighting hardware which Electra recommends typically has zero hum, long-life electronic ballasts, excellent colour rendering, is four times more efficient than incandescents, a lifetime of up to 10,000 hours, and is priced extremely competitively.

Lifetime savings of a 25-watt CFL over a 100-watt incandescent is 750 kWh—and maintenance costs are reduced as well.