Street lights on during the day in Sheffield.

[supersonic 11]

I always thought it was because pigeons had crapped on the sensors lol.

[monkey104 10]

Not a problem, they were all off last night. Swings and roundabouts.

[Jeffrey Shaw 90]

Maybe the streetlights are merely emulating the European cars' headlights, lit all day?

[Amberk 10]

It cost no more for the lights to be on 24hrs than when they are off in the day time. The council pay a set rate per annun to NPG for electricity. It's not metered like your supply at home would be. Also they are indeed on as jointers are required to joint live. And many of the new columns are still fed from the old 5th core backed up by fused at a substation.

[AlexAtkin 10]

It cost no more for the lights to be on 24hrs than when they are off in the day time. The council pay a set rate per annun to NPG for electricity. It's not metered like your supply at home would be. Also they are indeed on as jointers are required to joint live. And many of the new columns are still fed from the old 5th core backed up by fused at a substation.

 

If that's the case, how does it save them money to replace them with LED?

 

Surely if they tell NPG "our lights are cheaper to run now" they could just come back and say "tough, we are still charging the same"? Thus negating half the point of switching to LED.

[Amberk 10]

Because they are changed per annnum based on the number of units with an NPG supply registered on the system. This also has record of the lantern that is installed so they charge so much for xx lantern using an average of xx watts. But when the lantern is changed this database is updated. Do they tell them they are using a different lantern, saving xx number of watts. And this is reflected in the cost of electricity NPG charge.

[Jo-Gee 10]

Totally! What a waste of money

[04jessops 10]

It cost no more for the lights to be on 24hrs than when they are off in the day time. The council pay a set rate per annun to NPG for electricity. It's not metered like your supply at home would be. Also they are indeed on as jointers are required to joint live. And many of the new columns are still fed from the old 5th core backed up by fused at a substation.

 

You learn something new every day! Aside from the money, then, I still take issue with the electricity that is being wasted.

[chuckers 10]

Waste of money

[lazarus 68]

Spotswood Close, a wall mounted light has now been on for over two years 24/7