For LED street light electricity tariff 60 million NT

Taiwan Economic Department of the Bureau of energy invested 2 billion 800 million yuan (NT, the same below), grant Taiwan with 320 thousand LED lights, more than 50 thousand lights assigned to Tainan City, starting in March the construction, completion is expected by the end of July, before the end of full acceptance.

Bureau of parks, street lamps management section chief Jimmy Lin pointed out that each of the monthly cost of $180 per month of mercury street lights, LED street lamp is only $30, the gap of up to 6 times, the estimated annual savings of $60 million in electricity bills. Recently, the Bureau of public works often received long asked why the place is not replaced, and because there are more than 40 thousand LED street lamps installed in the original Nanxian area, questioned whether the heavy light city.

The General Engineering Works Bureau Secretary Wu Ruian explained that the city's 200 thousand street lights, street lamps, mercury pollution to light about 140 thousand lanterns, most located in the Nanxian area, should be eliminated. While most of the original southern city is high brightness, efficiency is also good for high pressure sodium lamps, the number of course of course less.

But there are people found that the high failure rate of LED street lights, night lighting empty window. It is understood that, in July, the Bureau of public works received more than two hundred maintenance notification.

Wu Ruian said that the facelift project subcontracted to 3 companies, after the acceptance of warranty 5 years, manufacturers may be leading to poor quality work, according to the contract, the warranty period if 24 hours did not fix the fault lamps, each lamp can be fined 500 yuan, has accumulated more than ten tickets, will urge manufacturers improve quality.