Switch is a turn-off for Welsh county

08 October 2008

Pembrokeshire councillors have voted to become the second county in Wales to switch off non-essential streetlights after midnight.

The county council’s cabinet voted to back the energy-saving move, which could save about £213,000 a year, at a meeting on Monday.

Last month, Powys County Council began extinguishing 9,380 of its 14,000 lamps. Some of Pembrokeshire’s street lamps will be dimmed between midnight and 5.30am after a new system is installed.

Council engineers estimated it would take two years to install programmable photocells to allow the lights to go out at set times, at a cost of £172,000, and a further £14,500 to reprogramme or replace pre-programmable time switches.

The measures would see an annual saving of £213,315, and ultimately cut the council’s metered electricity use by about 2,000 MWh. This will reduce CO2 emissions by about 580t.

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