Council's signal switch enters final phase21/03/2025 West Sussex County Council is entering the final stage of its three-year programme to change all traffic signals in the county from halogen to LED. |
Worcestershire speeds up LED upgrade to beat cost rises30/08/2023 Worcestershire County Council has finished a £6m project to upgrade 21,000 streetlights to LED more than a year earlier than planned after accelerating the work in response to rising energy costs. |
SRN to brighten up with 70% LEDs by 202715/02/2023 National Highways is working on a huge programme to convert streetlights to LED with the aim of reaching 70% by 2027. |
Volker wins £5m Oxon LED replacement deal31/01/2023 VolkerHighways has started work on awarded a Traffic Route LED and Column Replacement contract with Oxfordshire County Council worth £5m. |
Notts counts savings in the millions as LED switchover nears finish line09/11/2022 Nottinghamshire County Council has signed off the final stages of a decade-long project to change nearly all of the streetlights in its area to LED. |
Medway hands Volker £9m LED lighting deal28/08/2020 VolkerHighways has been awarded a street lighting contract with Medway Council, worth over £9m, that will see thousands of energy efficient lights installed. |
Bedford carries out £6.3m LED lighting upgrade06/09/2018 Bedford Borough Council has all but completed a £6.3m project to replace its highway streetlights with LED lanterns. |
Leeds set to back £25m LED streetlight switch03/07/2018 Leeds City Council is to take forward plans to upgrade all street lights in the city after a consultation, but has yet to say whether it intends to extend a night-time switch off. |
Monumental lighting 53% more efficient25/08/2017 Technology used for architectural ornamental lighting, such as monuments, have been adapted for use on the strategic road network in a national first. |
Skanska starts LED lighting upgrade in Gloucestershire17/11/2015 Work to install 55,000 energy-saving LED street lights throughout Gloucestershire has started. |
Kent to spend £40m on LED lights switchover18/12/2014 Kent County Council is planning to invest £40m to convert its 120,000 street lights to a centrally-controlled LED lighting system. |
Transport for London invests in lighting technology16/01/2014 Harvard Engineering has secured a contract with Transport for London (TfL) to install a wireless monitoring and control system for street lighting across the capital’s busiest roads. |
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