CARBON emissions from energy use in street lighting across Worcestershire have reduced by 56 per cent since 2009/10.
This is despite an increase in the number of street lights across the county supporting further housing and development.
The reductions have been realised through:
Targeted replacement of street lighting assets with energy efficient LEDs (approx. 46 per cent and counting)
Part-night switch-off of streetlights on some roads
De-illumination of some traffic signs
Switching traffic lights to LED
To date, the Council has installed 27,700 LED street lights, which have replaced old energy in-efficient and unmaintainable lights. This has saved approximately 2.15 million kWhs since April 2018.
Replacing street lights with long-life LEDs reduces energy consumption by up to 59 per cent and significantly reduces ongoing maintenance costs.
All new traffic lights and upgrades to older traffic lights across the county are carried out using LED technology.
The newer controls use vehicle and pedestrian detection to assess, monitoring patterns of traffic to ensure the best available green time is allocated. This helps to reduce less congestion and pollution.
This reduces traffic light energy consumption on average by 80 per cent and reduces the yearly maintenance required.
