Street Lights

Street lights are a funny thing. They illuminate the place and give a gentle glow to an area.  In the UK these street lights used to be a light orange colour (Which was pretty funny) but since then, the councils have been upgradings these to LED bulbs. LED bulbs offer far more illumination for far less energy. Everyone's a winner when you use them.  The question that gave me some thought was how much each council in Wales is using them.  

So I asked all the councils in Wales the same thing, which was:

1. How many street Lights does you authority operate
2. How many have been upgraded to LED bulbs
3. How much saving have you made because of this.  

And so the answers came back:

Name	Amount	LED Operated	Saved
Anglesey	9523	3184	16% energy saving
Blaenau	12930	7237
Bridgend	20076	7081	£200,000.00
Caerphilly
Cardiff	38480	38480	£650,000.00
Carmarthenshire	19700	6500	30% - 50% Energy Saving
Ceredigion	6714	2664	£200,000
Conway
Denbighshire	11374	3233	£252,500.00
Flintshire	20500	550 at present
Gwynedd	17541	3500	
Merthyr Tydfil	7371	7371	73.00%
Monmouth	10696	1750	£42,000.00
Neath Port Talbot
Newport
Pembroke	15400	1800	£13000 if all changed
Powys	14989	6715	160000
RCT	27500	8450	£247,000.00
Swansea	28531	19732	£400,000
Torfaen	11487	2239	£54736
Vale Of Glamorgan	15825	5209
Wrexham	12915	24

A quick look through this shows the huge amount of savings that a council can make IF they swap to LED bulbs. The thing that also makes me proud is that Merthyr Tydfil have transferred ALL of their lights over to LED and they have saved a massive 73% saving!  That’s amazing!

Before I go any further anyone who has not stated how much they have saved is because they were not sure how much it was.   Even a small amount of LED bulbs can make a massive world of saving.