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01 May 2009
Brightening up car parks as energy costs go down
METEOR have just finished installing new lighting technology in two of our car parks. Both multi-storey car parks in Walkergate, Durham and Castleside in Banbury are now equipped with the latest lighting technology. Each individual light fitting has been changed and the new fittings now operate on two sensors, one detecting movement and the other detecting the amount of light. This means that the lights switch themselves on when they detect movement, powering the whole light, once lit the light detector cuts in and reduces the brightness of the light according to the surrounding area. Previously, both car parks used standard fluorescent tubes, two 54watt tubes in each fitting. The new fittings contain only one 54watt tube, therefore only half the energy to light the car park is required, further energy savings are also achieved by the sensors fitted to each light, firstly, when no movement is detected the light is switched off, secondly when the light is on, it produces the correct amount of light for that area. Even though the new fittings use only half the amount of energy, the car parks seem much better lit than before, this is because the new tubes emit white light as opposed to the yellow light on the previous fittings. All in all the systems are expected to reduce energy by just over 60%, which means in Durham, for example, a whopping reduction of 104 tonnes of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere each year.
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