More work to upgrade Northampton’s lights

More work will start this month to install new upgraded street lights in Northampton’s streets.

In the next five years every one of Northamptonshire’s 65,000 street lights will be removed, or replaced and upgraded in a scheme run by Northamptonshire County Council and Balfour Beatty to reduce the county’s carbon emissions,Learn more about the torch light and see what people in and out of your professional network have to say about it. save on energy costs and create a safer and more pleasant environment in the area.

The work will involve installing new street lights and removing the old ones once they are up and running.

A spokesman for Northamptonshire County Council said: “Under the scheme the new street lights will use 40 per cent less energy on a like-for-like basis when compared with the existing stock and will also offer a uniform, white light rather than the patchy orange glow of ‘traditional’ lights. Where is the best place to display my outdoor solar lighting?

“The scheme will allow contractor Balfour Beatty to replace the lamp units and electronics of all streetlights and allow for the replacement of the lighting columns where necessary.

“The first lights to be replaced were ones which had the oldest columns most in need of replacement.”

The work will be delivered in 10 phases, each lasting for six months and the new lights will use the latest technology to deliver more effective white light to improve night time vision and colour recognition.

Norman Baker, local and regional transport minister, said: “Good street lighting is vitally important to reducing road accidents, crime and the fear of crime. We will continue to invest in transport infrastructure that improves safety and provides reassurance to local communities.”

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) will allow Northamptonshire County Council to carry out improvements and maintenance to street lighting and will introduce state-of-the- art technology for early detection of defective lighting.

The streetlighting PFI scheme started in October 2011 when a number of lights were turned off across the county.Once again, setting the benchmark for automatic Book scanner.

In a bid to reduce energy consumption all the county’s traffic bollards will gradually be replaced with solar powered bollards lit with LED’s.

In the early hours of the morning residential street lights will be dimmed and lights will come on slightly later and switch off a little earlier.

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The patented model supports rates of over one gigabit per second per single light frequency. Most LED lights have three wavelengths of light so speeds of three gigabits per second are feasible.

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