Thought this was pretty bizarre – a large 1300 lumen LED bulb produces the light of about 100 ordinary candles, and requires about 18W to run. Tea lights from IKEA cost £4.75 for 100, and last 4 hours. I couldn’t find a good estimate for business electricity costs atm, but anything below 60p/kWh after government help is going to make it cheaper to use electricity, not candles.
EDIT: business electricity will be capped at 21p/kWh, so it’ll be much cheaper to use electric lighting. That is, at the same lighting level – if you make your place 1/3rd as bright with candles then it’ll be a similar price. But you could just replace the bulbs/take some bulbs out.
Also lighting costs are low compared to other energy use. Back-of-the-envelope maths suggests less than a tenner per month for a pub requiring 13k lumens (10 big LED lightbulbs) front of house (with some guesswork for how long they need them on during the week cos I don’t run a pub… but it’s less than £30 to have that much lighting on 24/7 for a month)
Romantic until the whole place burns down, anyway.
You’d be amazed how two candles can warm up the bedroom.. of course to be put in a safe place away from any potential hazard. Been doing it for a few days. It’s brilliant.
No chance the candles are cheaper than electric lighting.
I posted about this in summer, saying pubs and restaurants will start to do candlelit meals and market it as romantic evenings.
Still got to cook the grub though unless they’re having romantic ham sandwiches, romantic bags of cheese and onion and a romantic ploughman’s.
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Thought this was pretty bizarre – a large 1300 lumen LED bulb produces the light of about 100 ordinary candles, and requires about 18W to run. Tea lights from IKEA cost £4.75 for 100, and last 4 hours. I couldn’t find a good estimate for business electricity costs atm, but anything below 60p/kWh after government help is going to make it cheaper to use electricity, not candles.
EDIT: business electricity will be capped at 21p/kWh, so it’ll be much cheaper to use electric lighting. That is, at the same lighting level – if you make your place 1/3rd as bright with candles then it’ll be a similar price. But you could just replace the bulbs/take some bulbs out.
Also lighting costs are low compared to other energy use. Back-of-the-envelope maths suggests less than a tenner per month for a pub requiring 13k lumens (10 big LED lightbulbs) front of house (with some guesswork for how long they need them on during the week cos I don’t run a pub… but it’s less than £30 to have that much lighting on 24/7 for a month)
Romantic until the whole place burns down, anyway.
You’d be amazed how two candles can warm up the bedroom.. of course to be put in a safe place away from any potential hazard. Been doing it for a few days. It’s brilliant.
No chance the candles are cheaper than electric lighting.
I posted about this in summer, saying pubs and restaurants will start to do candlelit meals and market it as romantic evenings.
Still got to cook the grub though unless they’re having romantic ham sandwiches, romantic bags of cheese and onion and a romantic ploughman’s.