Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), an energy service company of the Union Government, has decided to implement one more LED lighting programme for the rural households of Andhra Pradesh. The state earlier installed 29.3 Lakh LED street lights.
The LED street lighting program is estimated to save 133 MU electricity per annum in urban areas and around 260 MU in the rural areas. This would reduce the Co2 emissions to the tune of about 0.33 million tons.
Till date, EESL has installed over 1.14 crore LED street lights in the and gram panchayats across India. This has resulted in an estimated energy Savings of 7.72 billion kWh per year and avoided peak demand of 1,286 MW. This has also led to greenhouse gas emission reduction of 5.32 million tonnes per year, and estimated annual monetary savings of Rs 5,395 crore in electricity bills of municipalities.
Under the street lighting national programme, 1576 urban local bodies have been enrolled. Out of these ULBs, work has been completed in 1,060 ULBs in the country. The executive vice-chairman has requested the executives of the state governments and in particular pro-active states like Andhra Pradesh to play a pivotal role in de-carbonization to mitigate the ill effects of Climate-change”>Climate Change.