The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), international NGO The Climate Group and HSBC this week announced the launch of India's largest Light Emitting Diode (LED) streetlighting pilot program in Kolkata. The ground-breaking LED pilot project will undertake a comprehensive trial of over 270 lights installed on several of the city's arterial roads. The project will help the KMC understand practical ways it could make substantial cuts in urban emissions and savings on energy-related costs from street lighting over the next few years. The insight gained will not only be shared with other Indian cities but internationally.
The project is carried out by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in joint collaboration with the Government of India's Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (WBSEDCL), and the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB), with overall facilitation of The Climate Group. The project cost is equally shared between Bureau of Energy Efficiency and Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
The Kolkata initiative is part of The Climate Group's international LightSavers program supported by HSBC and joins 10 other pilots world cities including Hong Kong, New York, London, Sydney, Tianjin (China), and Toronto.
LEDs use substantially less power than conventional light bulbs and pilot projects internationally have so far shown a reduction of 40-50 % in electricity use when LEDs replace traditional sodium vapour lamps, and savings of up to 70 per cent when LEDS are used with smart controls. Globally lighting accounts for 6% of worldwide CO2 emissions.
Mr Arnab Roy, KMC Municipal Commissioner, says: “Kolkata has 180,000 street lights, so the potential to scale up this clean technology is considerable. We look forward to working alongside The Climate Group and its members to better understand the wide-ranging benefits of this clean technology including energy and carbon savings.”
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