ELCOMA India has issue a statement about installing more LED street lights in India to save electricity. The statement says, “ELCOMA India, in its project to ensure that the lighting industry sees technological advancements, has ensured that the ministry of urban development has mandated all state governments to change the street lighting into LEDs in their domain.”
The statement also added, “This initiative of changing the street lights is directed for the entire country which boasts of 27.5 million such street lights. This change will enable us to save more than 5,000 MW of electricity consumption over a period of three years.” The 27.5 million is seeing a boom in India as it’s now worth around Rs 120,000 million. Following a survey by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) on the street lights Urban Development Ministry issued a mandate.
The survey findings revealed more than 80 per cent of street lights in India were installed till date in a puzzling way without measuring the basic requirements like pole distance, luminary type, height etc. ELCOMA secretary general, Shyam Sujan, said, “ELCOMA India has played a very crucial role in bringing the government to understand the benefits of energy conservation and how successfully this can be replicated by replacing the street lights with LED lamps across the country. This was also possible post-ELCOMA’s initiative of holding lighting workshops and conferences in various state capitals to bring in awareness about various technologies for energy conservation and how street lights can play a major part in this conservation.”
