WDR Reported

Laatzener lamp manufacturer provides most of modern LED street lights Berlin, Jan - the conversion of 6,000 street lights is not commonplace even in North Rhine-Westphalia. The WDR broadcast "Local time from Aachen" reason enough, on January 16, 2012 in prime time to report. The reason for the large-scale installation of new street lights is switching on lights with LED technology. Concrete numbers are called in the WDR post: alone 600,000 EUR per year should be saved less power consumption by 3 million kWh. This means a reduction of 60% over the current energy consumption.

In addition, the city anticipates significantly lower maintenance costs. Even for a city like Duren alone not to cope with the necessary investment costs would have been. A substantial grant by the mobilization of the support program of the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) has made possible the financing by the community. Several thousand lights of the models 130 and 131 come from the Hel Lux lighting manufacturer. With Hel Lux offers a wide range of modern products in the road, foreign object near light the Berlin light factory, a plant specialized in industrial series production in Laatzen in Hannover, as well as a site in eske Budjovice (Czech Republic). The BMU funding for conversion from a road and lighting aimed at municipalities and communities, recently also explicitly to cultural, religious and social support. Funding grants of up to 25% can be applied for until March 31, 2012. Information and assistance get interested decision makers on the Hel Lux portal at.