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Energy prices: First cities save on street lighting

2022-05-15T09:26:36.346Z


Dimming or simply switching off earlier: Due to increased costs, the first municipalities are reducing the operation of their street lamps.


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Street lamp: Due to increased electricity prices, savings should be made in the operating time

Photo: IMAGO/Gottfried Czepluch

From June 1st, streetlights in Weimar will be switched on 30 minutes later and switched off 30 minutes earlier in order to save on energy costs.

In the winter months, the original lighting time is to be reduced by ten minutes.

In view of the drastically increased energy prices, a number of municipalities are currently examining such steps.

Reduced street lighting is "one idea in a bundle of possible measures" that is being discussed in municipalities, said Alexander Handschuh from the German Association of Towns and Municipalities.

In

Halle

in Saxony-Anhalt, a spokeswoman for the municipal utility said that a shorter duration of the city lighting is not yet necessary, "although we are also preparing for it".

The city of

Mainz

is discussing further reductions in the lighting of footpaths and cycle paths.

In

Darmstadt

, a cycle path in the city and also a section of the Frankfurt-Darmstadt cycle expressway were equipped with special sensors: The lamps react to movement and become brighter when a cyclist or pedestrian passes by and then darken again.

In

Leipzig

and

Dresden

, the streets should continue to be illuminated for about eight hours at night.

Shorter operating times are not planned.

"A shorter light duration is always at the expense of road safety," says Dresden.

vet/dpa

Source: spiegel

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