LED based street lighting in kalka town

Februrary 1- Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency(HAREDA) has prepared a special and first of its kind project forinstalling the light emitting diode (LED) based street lighting fixtures in the entire municipal area of the Kalka town of Panchkuladistrict.

While disclosing this today, the Power and Renewable Energy Minister,Mr. Mahender Pratap Singh said that the LED project would be completedwithin next four-five months. With the implementation of this project,Kalka town would become India’s first fully LED lit township. The project had already been approved by the Bureau of EnergyEfficiency, Ministry of Power, Government of India. The full projectcost of Rs. 70.16 lakh had been released by the Ministry of Power, headded.

The Minister said that under the project, 50 high pressure sodiumvapor lamps of 250 watts would be replaced with 72 watt LED basedstreet lighting, 60 high pressure sodium vapor lamps of 150 watt wouldbe replaced with 55 watt LED based street lighting and 900conventional 40 W tubelights with 14 W LED based street lights.Besides this, microprocessor based On-Off timer to switch the streetlights at pre-determined time would be installed on all the eightswitching panels. The installed equipments would be warranted forfive years.

As per pre-installation study conducted by the independentconsultant, M/s Dyna spede Integrated System Pvt.Ltd., Banglore,implementation of this project would result in estimated annual savingof two lakhs units of electricity and Rs. 9.25 lakh in energy billsannually. Mrs.Sumita Misra, Director, Renewable Energy Department, Haryana andHAREDA, said that the State Government had made mandatory that all thestreet lighting in all existing and new colonies and town areasnotified by the Urban Local Bodies Department, HUDA Sectors, HSIIDCindustrial estates, housing complexes. colonies and townshipsdeveloped by private/semi-government/autonomous institutions would useenergy efficient street lighting fixtures using T-5 tubelights/lightemitting diode (LED)/ low pressure sodium vapor/high pressure sodiumvapor/induction Arc Lamps.