From the San Francisco Business Times, “Beginning Oct. 1, people building or remodeling homes in California will have to obey new lighting standards meant to help consumers save up to 75 percent on lighting costs.”

“The new 2005 changes will now require that more than 50 percent of the wattage in kitchens must be high efficiency. The ratio of incandescent lights to the high efficiency lights must be four to one. At least one high-efficiency light fixture or vacancy sensors will be the minimum requirement in virtually every room. Outdoors, lighting attached to a building, such as a porch light, must be energy efficient or controlled by a motion sensor with a built-in photo control unit that detects dusk.”

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