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  IIRC with a modern LED even if you left it on 24/7 365 it would still cost under $10 a year to power it with average energy cost. So yeah, lighting isn’t very costly anymore (thankfully)
  It still astounds me that some people are fighting for the continued use of incandescent bulbs. LEDs look better and cost less. Plus smart bulbs are cheap as hell now ($10 a bulb) so you can choose different colors, warmth, and brightness.
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  Assuming you've got decent bulbs these days, lighting is a very small part of your electric bill. All of the lights that are on in my house right now are 8W LED bulbs, so they add up to maybe 100 watts or so. Compare that to something like anything with a heating element, and it's a drop in the bucket.