STAFF REPORT ISLAMABAD: A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) — also known as energy saving light, has health hazards — and it should not be lighted over sleeping-bed, study lamp because it may cause skin problems, cancer and other diseases.
“The CFL carries health hazards and LED and LVD can be used to avoid its health hazards effects,” representative of National Institute of Electronics (NIE) Engineer Ahmad Nadeem Siddiqui said during a workshop on Institutional Collaboration for Indigenous Production in Renewable Energy Sector. The workshop was arranged by PEC.
In US, an energy saver light costs $100 per unit while in Pakistan it costs Rs 100, Ahmed said and claimed that the Pakistani savers bulbs have poor quality and “standards are not followed.
He also claimed that a study revealed that by 2015, the energy saver bulbs would completely disappear from the market.
The experts present at the workshop were of the view that the country was confronting severe energy shortage and there was a need to declare “energy emergency.”
They said government has to focus on renewable energy sources including wind, solar, hydel, biomass and others.
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