Mexico. With the launch of the second stage of the Sustainable Light program, the Mexican government expects to replace about 23 million 100-watt incandescent bulbs that currently work in homes in that country to replace them with 23-watt fluorescent bulbs.
As part of the campaign, they will install light bulb exchange points throughout the country, seeking to ensure that the entire population has access to the program. This year the number of bulbs to change will be eight. At the end of this campaign, there is a goal of saving energy consumption of 80% in homes.
As part of the program, the Mexican government banned the sale of 100-watt incandescent bulbs since last December, the 75-watt bulbs will stop being sold in December of this year and by 2013 the 60 and 40 watt bulbs are expected to leave the market.
In the second stage, the Sustainable Light program will make available to Mexicans four brands of light bulbs, because in the first stage, in which 22 million bulbs were changed, only units of the Philips company were available, which won an international competition made by the government of that country.
In total, during the two stages the campaign seeks to change 45 million incandescent bulbs for 23-watt savers for household consumption. They also plan to incentivize local governments to make the changes for cost-saving lighting in public spaces.
