The cost of street lighting in Ukraine is 1.7 times higher than in Europe

Evening and night time puts additional requirements on external lighting. An important criterion for the security of movement of people, traffic, comfort and safety is a high-quality street lighting. It creates a certain emotional background in the cities and villages.





For most of the major cities, district centers and villages the current state of the street lighting is poor. The majority of street lamps do not meet modern standards.

Old low efficiency light sources leads to the fact that energy consumption for lighting in Ukraine is 1.7 times higher than in developed European countries.
In Ukraine uses inefficient incandescent lamp bulbs DRL. The old designs of the lamps have lost the characteristics of reflectors and lenses which make the light more by 25-40%.

 

For outdoor lighting it is advisable to use led lights. They provide lighting of roads, streets, Parking lots, yards, railway stations, industrial areas, stadiums, etc., the Consumption of these lamps is derived from the mains of 220 V. power consumption from 30 to 80 W / h, which is several times smaller than the lamps of the old model.





It is necessary to evaluate the calculation of energy savings when using led lamp power of 50 W, which is installed instead of sodium 150 watts.

In daily lighting for 10 hours during the year, these lights will be consumed 1022 and 205 kWh of electricity.

During the year occurs up to two replacements sodium lamps and chokes is 480 UAH together with payment for disposal.

When the electricity tariff of 1.40 UAH, annual savings from the led lamp 1250 UAH. Return new lamp is achieved in 2 years.

Source: ecotown.com.ua/