Street Lighting

LED for Street Lighting

BARE FACTS

The distance from the ground and the distance from one street lantern to the next proves difficult to match with an LED when replacing a Metal Halide or SOM street lantern – although there are LED solutions for Highways.  

The price of these lanterns comes in at over £1,200 (per lantern) which proves difficult to payback even if you are reducing the Wattage by half. It is important to point out that these are current prices; in 2/3 years time, when production costs of LED will dramatically fall, street lighting upgrades to LED lanterns will boom.   

Also with the "HE Road Class", which is a British Standard to benchmark against, it is a lot more difficult to match/design a lantern to – because of the amount of traffic/potential black spots/danger zones etc. 

BEST SCENARIO

The ideal project/situation for street lighting is a large council with lots of Cul-de-sacs and side streets which have relatively intact poles and have a SOM or Halide Lantern Wattage of around 150W-200W that can be replaced with a 50W/80W LED lamp.

The road class is much easier to deal with because of less traffic etc. But, just because the time is not quite right to upgrade Highways at the moment, it doesn't mean upgrading to LED's won't save the council a great deal of money - The average back street or cul-de-sac in Lancashire has around 50-100 lanterns – around 53,000 can be changed, saving massive amounts in yearly energy costs. 

Call 01892 882 540 and ask to speak to one of the LED Street Lighting Team, they will be happy to discuss your street lighting requirements and can provide you with an assessment of the savings that can be made.