Installation of LED lights in Hyderabad nearing completion: GHMC

The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is all set to emerge as the biggest civic body in the country to have adopted LED lights on such massive scale and replaced almost 4 lakh of 4.03 lakh conventional streetlights with LED lights in Hyderabad so far.

The GHMC, which took up the exercise in July 2017, said on Friday the entire project would be completed soon. It said the process of going in for LED lights was saving around 162.15 million units of power and Rs 115.13 crore towards electricity bills. “With this, some 1,29,719 tonnes of carbon dioxide is also reduced every year,” a statement said.

The replacement of conventional streetlights has also been



taken up in parks, sports complexes and graveyards and almost all the works were on the last lap. “They will be completed very soon,” an official quipped.Taken up at the directions of MA&UD Minister KT Rama Rao, the project, apart from saving power and electricity bills, has also been giving a bright look for the streets at night.

The project was taken up in coordination with Energy Efficiency Services Limited, which is affiliated to the Union government, and the GHMC is not releasing any separate fund for it and the payments are to be made from the savings made in power bills every year. The new LED lights come in different capacities of 18, 35, 17, 110, 190 watts.