Britain’s largest city of London will be the country’s largest LED streetlight installation program to complete the 2016 target of 40% energy savings. Transport for London (TFL) Office of the Mayor of London has announced that it will cooperate a LED street reconstruction projects, including the upgrade of 35,000 street lights and installing a network adaptive control system to monitor and control the lights. In addition, northeast England Lincolnshire also open a street light project, including solid-state lighting (SSL) 16,500 streetlights.
London street light project will support the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, specified ? Target: 60% reduction by 2025 carbon emissions targets, Johnson said: “In the capital’s main roads we install modern street lights, will not only reduce carbon emissions and maximize savings capital investment, it will also give London a better and safer roads. “According to Transport for London road Network (TLRN) show TfL has a total of 52,000 street lights, the plan is expected in the over decades, the ultimate is to upgrade all the lights, but the first phase will focus on the 35,000 streetlights, completed in 2016. This phase is expected to reduce carbon emissions from 9700 tonnes per year, and save ? 1,850,000 (approximately $ 3,000,000) – ie 40% cost savings. The initial phase of the ? 10.9 million cost will be recovered within a few years.
In addition, there are two parts to save money, including maintenance costs, and the lighting control network established TfL called Central Management System (CMS) will maximize energy savings and improve efficiency; CMS level can be set depending on the traffic lights brightness levels and automatically detect the required maintenance. Transport for London said the CMS provided by Harvard University project is the largest ever single investment in the history of London street lighting. The value of adaptive control has been demonstrated in other trials in the United Kingdom SSL, such as two years ago, Transport for London Thames Street tunnel mounted LED lighting.