Rhondda Cynon Taf is a county borough in the south of Wales. It consists of five valleys: the Rhondda Fawr and Fach, Cynon, Taff and Ely Valleys, as well as several towns and villages away from the valleys.
The local authority like many others were under pressure to reduce spending and implement plans to ensure future financial stability of the council to continue to deliver day to day services to the public with minimal impacts to the quality of support.
The aim was to upgrade the existing (what was the existing product, wattage, source type?) residential and traffic route (source, Type) lighting to LED to reach a target of 50% energy saving by using a combination of lower wattage light sources and incorporating part night and dimming schedules.
RCT borough council saw the potential savings and benefits of investing in LED lighting and how it could make up a huge part of the savings needed for all the council’s departments.
The decision was made to use council reserves and savings from other departments to invest in LED street lighting to ensure the future financial stability of council services in an uncertain climate of rising energy costs, CO2 charges as well as building a reliable and safe lighting infrastructure for decades to come.
- Funding came from Council reserves. The aim was to reduce energy and long term maintenance
- A reduction in energy use of 50% overall, including the saving resulting from part night light and dimming (in place prior to the LED replacement project)
Specification:
- Part Night switch off & full night regime with dimming
- DALI driver
- Mini-cell
Residential
Voyager (12 18 30 @ 700mA)
Voyager is a high performing, cost effective lighting solution for all residential lighting classes. Offering superior efficacy and elegant human-centric design, the Voyager makes a compelling case for replacement of existing luminaries and the ideal maintenance lantern.
Traffic Routes
Arialed
The Arialed is a flexible, high performance luminaire able to provide solutions for a range of lighting scenarios from P6 through to M2. Achieved by employing a unique modular light engine capable of accommodating a range of LED configurations.
Traffic Routes
Arialed Mini
The ARIALED Mini, built on the success of its bigger brother the ARIALED, the Mini packs the same high performance plus new advanced features in an attractive, light weight and affordable package. The body & self contained LED module are crafted to maximise cooling efficiency and offers a virtually maintenance free life.
- Saving of £320,236.27 per year
- 79%
- Energy savings (watts) 2014-15 Annual usage 12,234,000 KwH – 2018-19 projected usage 3,540,000 KwH. A saving of 8,694,000 KwH
- Energy savings (cost GBP) An Annual Energy Saving of £1,239,000 (including Carbon Levy) based on a saving of 8,694,000 KwH @ 14.2516 per unit
- Co2 savings of 4,581.8 Tonne based on 0.527kg per KwH for 8,694,000 KwH