Friday 27 June 2014
Sanok plans to save energy by replacing street lights
Sanok, town
in south/east Poland (close to the
border with Slovakia and Ukraine) can save even one million zloty a year as a
result of the new initiative of changing city lights.
It is one of the first projects like that in Poland.
Agnieszka
Fraczek, the spokesperson of Sanok’s administration, said that almost 1.200 old
street lamps will be replaced with the new ones, produced using technology that
will help save energy (most likely LED). Despite the high costs of the instalment (partially
founded by the credit, partially founded by the ministry), it has been
calculated that in the long-term perspective, city can save around one million
zloty from the budget that so far has been spend on the lights.
The reason
driving such decision was continuously increasing bill that city has been
paying for the conservation and repairing of the currently serving lightening
system above high electricity bills for keeping the lights on during whole night. In smaller municipalities, in recent years it became frequent that the street lights are switched off during the period in the night of the smallest activity of inhabitants. Sanok wanted to avoid this solution, as it causes feeling of danger among residents.
Similar
solutions has been chosen by Los Angeles (USA), where LED solution has been
chosen. It has been proved that the change generated $5,325,793 in annual electricity savings and 63.3% electricity savings over the
incumbent high-pressure sodium (HPS) street lights. Similar project is planned to be incorporated in Glasgow (the UK).
Read more:
- http://www.thatcreativefeeling.com/wp-content/uploads/City-lights-tokyo.jpg
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