Kaohsiung light gallery on the maintenance of electricity consumption of hundreds of billions of dollars to reduce the maintenance of late night lighting

According to Taiwan's "United Daily News" reported that the Kaohsiung city everywhere visible bright lights Gallery, but also on the annual pay electricity billion yuan, Kaohsiung City Bureau of public works maintenance office, in order to save energy and reduce carbon lamps will reset the bridge, reduce the night time part of lamp lighting, LED lights also began trial power-saving lamps, but the cost is more than and 20 times the general LED street lamp.

In love, Central Park, Reke, farm sixteen, after dark and bright lamp in the shape of the gallery, has become the city characteristics at night in Kaohsiung City, cyclists confidence in the nearby Lane lights gallery to enjoy the fun of riding, tourists also picked up the camera, the camera behind the night.

But to keep the industry department of statistics, the city's street lighting and landscape lighting, high pressure sodium lamp has more than 20 thousand lights, more than 90 thousand lights of mercury lamp, mercury lamp electricity is about NT $110 million per year; another 9500 mercury vapor garden lamp, each year to NT $20 million for electricity, this is the electric public electricity costs after discount. Street lights and garden lights and other metal lamp, less than the number of mercury lamps.

In order to save electricity, the work of the Ministry of research intends to multi pronged approach, on the one hand in order to control the timing of street lights, landscape lights, two areas to save electricity, the higher the degree of illumination of high pressure sodium lamp, gradually replace the mercury lamp, the three trial LED lamp.

Keep working at the relevant staff said, is currently studying how to reduce timing deck lighting, do not adopt "full set" switch; time sequence control lamp in the evening, people and vehicles to reduce the number of parts such as lamps, in love on the bridge, no ship traveling at night, can be extinguished by the lamp. Stay on the bridge high street. Such as "time management", the city's 7 lighting bridge, every year can save nearly NT $500 thousand bills.

Relevant staff pointed out that now the city installed mercury lamp price of about 440 yuan NT, high pressure sodium lamp 2900 yuan NT, metal halide lamps of about 2450 yuan NT, LED lamp unit, not a pole that nearly NT $60 thousand, and the LED light diffusion than other lights, now can only use on the sidewalk.