Energy Saving News
Street light plan shows energy-saving potential
A town council in north-west England is aiming to show how old-fashioned light fittings can be updated to achieve higher standards of energy efficiency.
Bolton Council plans to reduce its energy consumption and save up to £60,000 a year by upgrading the 36,000 street lights in the area.
The local authority will spend £150,000 to swap the 45-watt bulbs currently used in the lights with energy-saving LEDs, as well keeping the lamps switched off for slightly longer each day.
Although they will only be inactive for an extra eight minutes per day, the initiative is expected to cut carbon emissions from Bolton's street lights by 40 per cent.
Councillor Ismail Ibrahim said the project will focus on "improving existing street lighting installations that have been installed more than ten years ago".
He added: "This will involve removing the old-style lanterns and replacing them with LED lamps in more than 300 locations around the borough."
Bolton Council is aiming to cut its carbon emissions by one-third by December 2013.
Teruyoshi Sakata, a director of Japan's Suntec Corporation, recently told a conference in Bangladesh that the use of LEDs can reduce carbon emissions from lighting by 85 to 95 per cent, Bangladeshi newspaper the Daily Star reported.
Wednesday 7th October 2009
