Soon, Noida to get LED street lights

The Noida Authority will soon be moving forward with plans to upgrade all of its streetlights in the city with LED fixtures in the wake of reducing energy usage and to trim the substantial energy costs to two third of the existing usage.

The proposal was initiated by Uttar Pradesh Industry Minister Satish Mahana in his visit to Noida. "We have started preparing our action plan to upgrade the sodium lights in the city. The plan will be implemented in the city after getting approval from the higher officials," said a senior official from the authority.

At present, there are around 80,000 street lights in Noida which are equipped with sodium bulbs that consume excessive energy.

The present cost of energy usage on Noida Authority is around two to three crore per month, laying an unnecessary burden. In his visit to Noida, Mahana directed the officials to fix up the entire street lights in the district, be it in urban or in rural areas and prepare an action plan. The district authority is in financial crisis this year and is trying to cut all the unnecessary expenses.

This is likely to trim the energy cost by around 73 percent which will turn to be a big relief to the authority.