Surrey County Council has signed a contract to transform the county’s street lighting system, with the biggest roll out of revolutionary new energy-saving technology in the country.
The cost of £250m over a 25-year period will, it is claimed, eventually save the taxpayers at least £12m.
The deal will see Skanska Laing installing bright white lights to replace the current inefficient orange glow street lamps.
In the first five years of the contract all of the county’s 89,000 lights will be upgraded – 70,000 being replaced and 19,000 refurbished. The first new lights will be installed in March next year.
At present Surrey’s street lights are programmed to come on and go off at set times in the day. Under the new system lighting will be increased where it is most needed, and reduced where it is not needed as much.
Broken and faulty lights will be automatically reported.
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