Street lights - maintaining speed with the adjustments

East Sussex County Council is amongst the most superior area authorities in its technique to street lighting and has launched a considerable amount of modifications to its street lighting to reduce its electricity bill and carbon footprint, together with the rollout of modern day LED technological innovation.



In 2010 ESCC began to seem at strategies to save electrical power and lessen CO2 emissions by way of reducing the wattage of our street lights and by turning off street lights during the early hrs of your morning throughout the county. By 2012 the rapid advances in LED technologies meant that LED street lighting grew to become additional reasonably priced; delivering superior light excellent whilst also delivering financial savings related with ongoing upkeep.



In April 2013 our contractor started out altering our street lighting on residential streets in Eastbourne from standard lighting to modern day, expense productive LED lighting. This undertaking is now approaching completion and we will have replaced roughly six,000 of your original lanterns with LED lanterns, lowering our electricity consumption by somewhere around ￠G150,000 each year and our CO2 emissions by 900 tonnes. A equivalent venture, starting in April 2014, will follow on in Hastings and really should deliver a related degree of cost savings.



Furthermore, all street lighting column replacements are now being intended and installed working with LED lanterns so even further electrical power and CO2 financial savings will be realised all-around the county.



More than the previous few years we have also introduced many other alterations to our street lights to conserve power, together with the introduction of dimming on primary website traffic routes between midnight and 6am as well as the installation of decrease wattage lighting. In 2012 we also transformed our street lighting policy to ensure that it could be targeted when and where it offers one of the most benefit.



The introduction of Led street lights will lower electrical energy consumption and CO2 emissions by an normal of 65%. Though the present LED lantern technology is effective and reasonably cost-effective it can be below frequent growth and East Sussex County Council will carry on to liaise with producers to make sure that we hold speed with technology to supply the benefits to East Sussex residents.