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Revolutionising street lighting to reduce pollution

With 500 million of them around the globe and 7.5 million of them in the UK alone, street lamps are
certainly a familiar sight in most towns and cities and something the developed world has become
hugely dependent upon.

But traditional street lights are expensive to run, emit high levels of carbon and are a major cause of
light pollution, which is why one Newcastle based business has been thrust in to the spotlight; having
launched a solution that massively reduces carbon emissions, delivers huge cost efficiencies and
eradicates the problem of light pollution.

Low Carbon Lighting, has developed a low carbon LED alternative to the traditional street light that uses
up to 70% less electricity, has a much longer life span than standard street lighting and provides a better
spread of light therefore reducing the number of street lamps needed – all in all bringing significant cost
savings whilst reducing CO2 emissions.

From the city where Joseph Swan invented the first light bulb, Newcastle looks set to massively change
the way in which lighting is provided once again.

Having designed an LED light that does not overheat and crack, which to date has prevented its scalable
use, Low Carbon Lighting is trialling its revolutionary street lamps, which comply with UK lighting
standards, with three local authorities across the UK and one of the country’s largest energy providers.

But with local authorities and councils across the globe faced with the same issue of needing to reduce
their carbon emissions and meeting soaring electricity costs, Low Carbon Lighting has global aspirations.
By 2015 the company expects to be servicing a truly global market with four main sites around theworld.

The technology has been designed by a R&D team based in the North East, in conjunction with the
University of Freiburg in Germany, leaders in heat management. The products have been brought to
market with the expertise of the business support team at Newcastle Science City and will be produced
in the North East too.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Laura White .