Zhuhai street lamp LED transformation has been completed 40%

Zhuhai start LED streetlight renovation project in 2012, the first phase of the project has been completed 40%, the main urban roads and the western city of lights have been replaced.

It is understood that a total of about more than 90 thousand street lamps in Zhuhai, landscape lights about more than 30 thousand, most of the street light source using high-pressure sodium lamp and metal halide lamp, its high energy consumption, short life, will produce mercury pollution to the environment.

Zhuhai LED street lamp (picture from enELtec)

According to the measurement standard of Zhuhai municipal gardens and Forestry Bureau and the municipal urban construction energy saving technology company, Zhuhai 90 thousand street after the completion of the transformation to a year can save electricity 54 million degrees, a total of 9 years of saving 486 million kilowatts, equivalent to saving 170 thousand tons of standard coal, reducing 3150 tons of sulfur dioxide emissions, reduce carbon dioxide emissions 120 thousand tons per kwh; 0.831 yuan calculation, the annual electricity savings of 44 million 874 thousand yuan, saving the total cost of 67 million 500 thousand yuan.

In addition to the benefits of energy conservation and emission reduction, the implementation of LED street lamp transformation project will also stimulate the development of LED industry. It is understood that the LED industry has been listed as the focus of the development of strategic emerging industries in Guangdong. Our province to build LED application demonstration project as a breakthrough in the LED industry. As of the end of 2011, the province's LED lighting demonstration project to promote the application of LED street lamp 250 thousand, pulling the LED lighting industry output value exceeded $150 billion, ranking first in the country.