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Energy: Street lights go LED as project to replace thousands begins
Cllr Peter Hiller installs the first LED street light in Hyholmes, Bretton, in the first phase of a �2 million project. Photo: Paul Franks/Peterborough ET
A LOW-ENERGY street light replacement project that is expected to save Peterborough City Council hundreds of thousands of pounds in electricity bills was officially launched yesterday.
Cabinet member for housing, neighbourhoods and planning Peter Hiller had the privilege of officially installing the first LED street light in Hyholmes, Bretton, yesterday morning.
Hyholmes is just one of many streets that will benefit from the new lights, with 1,200 initially installed under a £450,000 contract with BAM Nuttall.
Engineers at the site revealed that the new lights, which consist of 24 LED lights in every lamp, consume just 64 kW/hour compared to the 249 kW/hour consumed by the existing lamps.
What’s more, while the current stock of lamps have a lifespan of between three and four years, the LED lights will last 10 years before they need replacing, as well as need less maintenance.
In total, more than 6,000 lights will be installed across the city over the next two years in a project that will cost the council just under £2 million.
Other areas set to benefit are Eastfield, Millfield, Paston, New England, Bretton, Werrington, Park, Fletton and Ravensthorpe.
Cllr Hiller, who jumped into a cherry-picker to install the first light in Hyholmes, said that the lights would be installed in residential and link roads, with priority given to those where the most energy will be saved.
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PottyBoroPensioner
Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 11:33 PMHOW MANY YEARS WILL THIS TAKE BEFORE WE RECOVER THE COSTS AS I ONIY HAVE ANOTHER 16 YEAR OF TAX PAYMENTS TO MAKE, SOLAR PANELS ON THE TOWN HALL NEXT = ONLY 16K, BARGAIN
rogerandrew
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 08:47 AMis this the same company,Bam nuttall, that made a huge cock-up with the guided bus.?..why do PCC employ these so called second rate companies..
rogerandrew
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 07:22 PMagree with #6..lots of countries switch off the traffic lights during night.I have seen this in germany,austria and other european counties..but they do not have PCC to cock things up..so much for the green capital of the UK...!!
Gorgeous George
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11:25 PM"Hyholmes is just one of many streets that will benefit from the new lights, with 1,200 initially installed." The inhabitants of Hyholmes will need sunglasses.
BRITkev
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11:20 PMThose L.E.D. lights are bloody useless....Get more light from the moon !
rebel woman
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 10:25 PMIt's a pity they don't turn on the lights at the stanground slip road from the parkway. It is a strange exit with the markings starting too soon and the arrow on the road not well visable due to the lights turned off. I am just surprised there have not been more accidents there
Uncle Nozmo
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 09:51 PMPerhaps the city council could turn off the traffic lights at night. Most of the traffic lights simply waste electricity during off-peak hours from, say, 9pm through to 6am next day. Not only would it save much electricity and wear and tear on the traffic light equipment, but it would also save wasted fuel from vehicles being stopped pointlessly when there is very little traffic. As for the set of pedestrian lights at the start of the new Crowland and Cowbit bypass, they could be turned off permanently as the crossing is never used and doesn't actually go anywhere.
J J Carter
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 02:54 PMThey should add UV to the street-lights in some parts of town. This makes is much tricker for junkies to find a vein.
ResidentinPeterborough
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 01:34 PMI think the reporter has added kilowatts of power to each bulb !! It should be 64W not 64kW if it used 64kW across 6000 lamps you would be consuming 384MWHr of power. 64KW is about what 30 households would use on average in an hour. I think thats more than the power station over in Fengate generates !!
Bamboozler
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11:12 AM#1 - Good point. I guess it would look pretty odd, having some low energy bulbs alongside the old ones and the running costs would be higher to keep the old ones going. That is the only reason I imagine.
aressee
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11:08 AMThis'll be a novel experience for Bretton to have street lighting - most of the main road (and certainly the large roundabout) lights have been out for over 4 years!
AliV
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 09:55 AMAs I asked in the previous story about this, it would be interesting to know how doing it this way compares to the cost of just replacing the old bulbs with LED's when they come to the end of their life. It would be this specialist bulb-replacement team throwing away a bunch of functional bulbs versus the existing bulb replacement team throwing away failed bulbs as they come.
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