Losangeles to start the city's largest LED street lamp replacement program

In order to make the country's second largest city of Losangeles to become a green city, following the launch of the solar program, the mayor of Vilale, former president of the United States and the United States and the former president of sand, Clinton, announced on the 16, the city's largest street lamp replacement program.

The 5 year plan to replace the city more than 140 thousand streetlights, to replace the traditional large power consumption, low brightness lighting to energy-saving LED lighting, pedestrians and drivers in the future not only at night can see more clearly, and the estimated average annual reduction of about 40 thousand and 500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, but also for each province under the municipal government 4 ($10 million) of the electricity expenditure.

LED bulb durable is another big advantage, the traditional lamp average life expectancy of about 3 years, while the LED bulbs can be used continuously for 10 to 12 years, it has the characteristics of durability and low failure rate, the city does not need expensive labor and maintenance costs.

In addition, the city after the replacement of the LED light can greatly reduce light pollution, the next evening people look up to the sky when you can see the shining stars, ran to the suburbs without stars.

Former president Clinton said, very honored to Losangeles city and the "Clinton climate agreement" (Clinton Climate Initiative) cooperation replacement lighting plan, hope that the cooperation mode in the future can reference for other big city, energy saving and carbon reduction, save the earth together.

The director of the City Street Management Bureau Ed Ebrahimian said that the replacement lighting plan also includes installation of remote controller, if the LED lamp short-circuit fault happens in the future, the controller will automatically report to the authority, the authority with the fastest speed change, more efficient allocation of manpower, save money.

Clinton and the mayor of London Livingstone (Ken Livingstone), the San Francisco sand, Antonio Villaraigosa Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2006 signed with the "Clinton climate agreement", the city accounted for 75% of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions to take measures to prevent the greenhouse effect on earth, reduce emissions, solve the global warming problem.

Agreement to participate in the use of urban administrative measures to encourage enterprises to sell energy-saving equipment at low prices, so that the popularization of energy-saving equipment in many cities to achieve energy-saving purposes.