7 Ways Solar Christmas Lights Give You The Holiday Edge

Champagne For Christmass

As we get closer to the holiday season, the annual tradition of neighborhoods lit up by holiday lights starts to appear. In recent years, there is a new tradition that has begun to take hold; solar powered Christmas lights.

In holiday light displays nationwide, solar Christmas lights are rapidly replacing the traditional incandescent lights, and for good reason. There are many potential benefits to using the new solar lights this Christmas, here are 7:

Easy to Set Up

Unlike the traditional incandescent holiday lights, there are no outlets or messy cords to deal with. This gives you the freedom to set them up anywhere outside-even in the most remote areas of your yard.

Can´t Beat the Convenience

There are several reasons why solar Christmas lights are more convenient than their traditional counterparts. Number one, the batteries on these lights recharge automatically during the day when the sun shines, then they go on when it starts to get dark and off when it starts to get light, all without the user ever needing to flip the switch! Furthermore, there are no worries about a light that goes out. If a bulb happens to burn out, the others continue to shine. If you have a power outage-which can happen often in the winter in some parts of the country-you may have the only Christmas light display in your community!

Safer Than Incandescent Lights

As mentioned earlier, no messy extension cords are needed, eliminating the potential danger of family members or guests tripping over these cords. In addition, solar powered Christmas lights operate at a cooler temp than conventional incandescents, which reduces the potential hazard of lights getting overheated and shorting out or starting a fire.

Free Unlimited Energy

The obvious personal benefit to solar power-it does not add to your electric bill. Traditional Christmas lights suck up a lot of energy and you can measure exactly how much that costs you by using a simple Christmas light calculator. Once the solar Christmas lights are purchased, the energy source drawn upon to give them light is free of charge and there is no limit to it. This lowers your winter energy bill, giving you a nice Christmas bonus!

Potential Government Tax Incentives

In many cases, the government (through your local electric company) is willing to give you tax incentives like a rebate on your electric bill. One example is an electric provider in Minnesota that gave its customers a $3 rebate on their bill for each strand when the customer bought up to 10 strings of LED holiday lights. Rebates and incentives like this might be available where you live.

Top Quality Workmanship

Solar powered Christmas lights are of a higher quality than traditional holiday lights, and it shows. Statistics indicate that the solar lights last an average of 10 times longer than incandescent lights. Furthermore, since the bulbs in solar lights are built with plastic material, they have far greater durability and are much harder to break than the traditional incandescent bulbs.

Great for Our Environment

Since solar Christmas lights rely on an unlimited and renewable energy source, there is no carbon burned and thus no pollutants that go out into the environment. Also, because these lights last about 10 times longer than incandescents, they are thrown away less often, reducing the amount of waste that goes into our landfills.

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