The final phase of a long-term street lighting conversion programme to use only low energy LED lighting is now underway.
The first 1500 lanterns of the remaining approximate 7000 street lights have already been converted, with the council also procuring green energy. The £3.2million scheme follows successful work during the last few years to replace old lanterns with energy efficient LED lanterns. By the summer, it is envisaged that all of the borough’s 28,000 street lights will be utilising low energy LED lighting, with the financial and environmental benefits this brings.
Councillor Will Harmer, Chairman of Environment and Community PDS Committee said, “We are already generating considerable savings from the first phase of the conversion programme and with the increasing costs of energy, these savings will have increased. This initiative directly supports the council’s pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2027 and street lighting energy consumption is a key part of this and the sooner we can reduce our energy consumption, the better it will be.”
As part of the project, lamp columns will be tested to ensure they continue to be structurally sound and will be replaced where needed.
The LED conversion programme will also include converting lanterns on street heritage lamp columns, retaining these much valued heritage columns where they are currently located.
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