Street lights

East Sussex County Council is probably the most innovative neighborhood authorities in its strategy to street lighting and has launched a considerable amount of modifications to its street lighting to reduce its electrical power bill and carbon footprint, which include the rollout of modern-day LED engineering.


In 2010 ESCC started off to appear at tips on how to conserve electrical power and decrease CO2 emissions via lowering the wattage of our street lights and by turning off street lights while in the early hours with the morning across the county. By 2012 the speedy advances in LED technological innovation meant that LED street lighting became more very affordable; offering good light good quality whilst also delivering savings connected with ongoing maintenance.


In April 2013 our contractor started out changing our street lighting on residential streets in Eastbourne from traditional lighting to present day, expense powerful LED lighting. This venture is now approaching completion and we'll have replaced roughly 6,000 with the unique lanterns with LED lanterns, cutting down our electricity consumption by approximately ￠G150,000 annually and our CO2 emissions by 900 tonnes. A similar undertaking, starting in April 2014, will stick to on in Hastings and should really deliver a similar degree of savings.


In addition, all street lighting column replacements are now becoming made and installed applying LED lanterns so even more electrical energy and CO2 financial savings will probably be realised close to the county.


Above the past number of many years we now have also introduced numerous other changes to our street lights to conserve vitality, which includes the introduction of dimming on main targeted visitors routes involving midnight and 6am along with the installation of decrease wattage lighting. In 2012 we also modified our street lighting policy to ensure it might be targeted when and exactly where it provides one of the most advantage.


The introduction of Led street lights will reduce electrical power consumption and CO2 emissions by an normal of 65%. Though the present LED lantern technologies is productive and relatively economical it's under continual improvement and East Sussex County Council will proceed to liaise with producers to ensure that we keep speed with engineering to provide the benefits to East Sussex residents.