147 million LED street light in Tainan, Taiwan

Taiwan Tainan city to build a low carbon city, for the Taiwan government subsidies, will invest more than 700 million 5 thousand million NT dollars (about RMB 146 million yuan), the replacement of the city's about 100000 LED street lights, has completed the technical service commission operation, is expected to bid for the Internet before the end of December, next March, completion by the end of next year.

The Industrial Affairs Bureau said that the 37 District of southern city currently has a total of 71 thousand and 766 mercury and 29 thousand and 659 400W (250W), and a total of 101 thousand and 425. It was approved by the Energy Bureau of the Ministry of economics in June this year to replace the mercury lamp in the urban area of light failure, power consumption and pollution. The electricity cost of the province is about 100 million yuan, and it can reduce the CO2 emissions by about 45 thousand tonnes a year, and about 140 Tainan parks to reduce carbon emissions.

In 2013, the Bureau of industrial affairs applied to the Energy Bureau of the Ministry of economics to apply for the replacement of 52 thousand and 189 mercury street lamps in the 37 District of the city as LED street lamps, and to continue to replace the yet updated mercury street lamps in 2016.

In the face of the global energy crisis and the challenge of the greenhouse effect, the Industrial Affairs Bureau said that the test of future climate change will be more and more severe, energy saving and carbon reduction are responsible for people, and after the LED street light is changed, South City will become a real "low carbon city".

The LED street lamp replacement project is estimated to be NT $756 million 845 thousand yuan (about RMB 147 million 600 thousand yuan). It has completed the operation of the technical service commission. It is expected to surf the Internet by the end of December 2015, start in March 2016, and be completed by the end of 2016.

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