India eNews - Energy-saving lighting mandatory for Haryana industries

India eNews - Energy-saving lighting mandatory for Haryana industries Conventional, power-guzzling light bulbs will have to be replaced with energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in all industrial units and their residential colonies in parts of Haryana.
A spokesman of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) said Saturday that now it will be mandatory to use the CFLs, T-5 tube lights or induction bulbs in all low-tension and high-tension industries and factories and their residential colonies, hospitals, street lighting and staff quarters.
The ban has been imposed in the area comprising districts of Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar, Bhiwani, Mahendragarh, Rewari, Gurgaon, Mewat and Faridabad.
The spokesman said that industrial consumers have been given time till Jan 31 to replace all conventional bulbs with the power saving lights at their own cost. Failure on part of any industrial establishment to comply with the ban will result in disconnection of power without notice, he added.


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