Lighting - Street Lights Switch Off
Energy-saving street lights scheme underway in Blaenau Gwent
An energy-saving scheme to programme street lights so they switch-off from midnight to dawn is underway in Blaenau Gwent.
Just over 6,000 street lights will now switch off at 12am. Another 8,000 will remain on because they are not fitted with modern, remote control time switches.
Street lights in town centres, other areas covered by CCTV, at roundabouts, traffic lights and pedestrian crossings stay on all night.
Blaenau Gwent Council decided reluctantly in March 2009 that it needed to make savings of £180,000 a year on the street lights energy bills. The scheme was part of a package of essential savings needed to balance the Council’s annual budget – badly hit by the low financial settlement from the Welsh Assembly Government and last year’s big rises in energy costs.
