Taiwan LED street lights will complete updated

Taiwan mercury into the street by the end of the history, the county spent more than four hundred million RMB from mid-March to the end of the year, will more than sixty thousand light mercury county road next to a comprehensive update of LED street lights, LED street lights not only energy saving, environmental protection, and increases the brightness of mercury than doubled; the county is estimated that after the update, the county would save more than fifty million a year degrees, for the county library to save more than eighty million RMB, the estimated five years to payback.

Carbon reduction has been the policy of the Government, Ministry of Economic Affairs to monitor mercury city and county road use power, lack of brightness, mercury and mercury lamps shine through, easy to distribute gas heavy metal pollution of the environment when damaged, so the county subsidy City funds fully eliminating the old, mercury will be updated by doubling the brightness, energy saving and environmentally friendly LED street lights replace.

Public Works Department Maintenance Engineering Division, said, Yunlin County, about more than one hundred and ten thousand street light, which accounts for more than sixty thousand mercury memo, the county government since mid-March to begin the update mercury project, expected to be completed by the end of the update, funding some 400 million RMB, As for the other more than fifty thousand street lamps to fluorescent lamps and arts-based, whether to update the future, the Ministry of economic Affairs are under review.

Maintenance engineering department says mercury a cost of only a few hundred dollars, although the LED street lights up to 3000-10000 RMB each lamp, but power consumption is one-third of mercury, so Yunlin County mercury comprehensive update, the central flower four million RMB, but the electricity is available from $ 120 million a year is reduced to four more than ten million RMB, the county library to save more than eighty million RMB, about five years to payback.