Piyush Goyal to showcase world’s largest street light replacement programme on Monday

Power, coal, renewable energy and mines minister Piyush Goyal will on Monday unveil street light replacement programme running in south Delhi, which is hailed to be the world’s largest such programme.

Under the programme, which is being implemented by the Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has done a cumulative annual savings of 2.65 crore units with the replacement of over 2 lakh street lights with LED bulbs.

The Street Lighting National Programme (SLNP) in south Delhi has also resulted in daily reduction of 22,000 tonnes of green house gases.

“Additionally in Delhi, under Phase II of the street lighting programme, EESL has signed a tripartite agreement with BSES and SDMC to install 75,000 more street lights with more focus on installation in parks,” a government release said.

The SLNP programme is presently running in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Tripura, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. Read more…