Switch to Energy-Efficient Lights to Bring Philippines Billion-Dollar Windfall

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Around 2,000 poor households in Manila's Tondo district have received free energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in exchange for their incandescent bulbs, marking the start of a nationwide campaign to save on fuel costs and mitigate climate change.

Under the "Switch to CFL" program – the first of its kind in Asia – 13 million CFLs will be distributed nationwide in the coming months, as part of a larger drive to make the Philippines incandescent bulb-free by 2010.

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