Electricity to buy LED street lamps, energy efficiency can be effective?

Taitung City Office for energy conservation, carbon, planning in urban areas 1500 mercury vapor lamps, replace LED lights to save electricity each year about NT $2 million 100 thousand yuan and 650 thousand yuan maintenance costs, because the government does not grant this year to replace street, office intends to make the industry first replacement, and then to the province electricity fee 5 years to pay.

Taitung city currently has more than 15 thousand sets of mercury or sodium lamps, the annual electricity nearly NT $40 million (the same below), the other also arranged 8 million yuan maintenance costs, a heavy burden on the city hall.

In recent years the city hall with the government energy policy, gradually replace LED lights for the hall, hundreds of thousands of electricity, so the other lamp replacement operation accelerated resolution.

The City Hall Park Street management agency director Lv Zhaoyang said, in the early stage of Zhongxing Road South to the main replacement area, a total of 1500 street lamps, the total project cost about 15 million yuan.

In the traditional 450 watt mercury lamp as an example, every year about 2796 yuan electricity, a 200 Watt LED lamp, a year only 1032 yuan, 1 years can save more than 2 million 100 thousand yuan for the hall, and then save the electricity 5 years to pay for the industry, completely without additional budget.

Because of the government this year to stop subsidies to replace street lights, the city hall design in a 5 year cycle of the industry standard, pre funded LED replacement lamps, maintenance of all the contract period, by the industry to undertake, the city hall estimate can save the cost of 650 thousand yuan.

Lv Zhaoyang said, with the usual received reflected the public street damaged, unable to point out the correct position, often allowing maintenance personnel to get through the replacement utterly routed, operation, set up resume and number of each lamp, build special web page at the same time.

In the future, not only the street lamp damage, and even the ditch near the home and other places can do things, can be in accordance with the number of street lights, Internet reflect, increase the treatment of aging.

The case has been sent to the people's Representative Council for consideration, if approved by the delegates, the fastest will be in 6, July contract execution.

The city council stressed that if the implementation effect, consider the future of this model is applied to replace the lamp yet remaining.

Electricity prices to buy street lamps uncertain factors

Taitung city government intends to replace 1500 of urban street lamp, in order to save electricity and maintenance costs, alternative method is seemingly government financial embarrassment, but there are industry cost, electricity hike and politics trend and other uncertain factors, are the best way, worthy of discussion.

Taitung county government finance director Lu Xiechang said, Taitung city hall to replace the LED lamp case after authorities signed public opinion, the mayor's approval, all in line with the current budget law provision, of course is a good alternative, Taipei municipal government has 101 building land leasing, and will return for specified purposes precedent, practice is absolutely feasible.

He pointed out that although the future earnings for specified purposes is feasible, but usually must be fixed, determined, the budget will not fall, so the public to pay electricity lamp works, save electricity only through the calculation period if the electricity or maintenance and parts of factors such as rising wages, will compress originally expected returns in practice "less insurance", may affect the industry bidding intention.

He said, standing in the position of the county staff, the future income of the specified use of the model, of course, is one of the options for local construction. But this will be more cautious and more comprehensive assessment of factors of uncertainty, and then select the best scheme, make policy recommendations to the magistrate.

In addition, the long-term observation of Taitung local political ecology believes that, although the city is a continuation, but by the end of seven to one election, this case for a period of 5 years, the next Taitung mayor on behalf of the people, whether the future support is not certain, but the policy decisions have become right to kill, whether right, it is worth pondering.