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In the Sulzemoos municipality, all street lamps are to be converted to LED technology.
This has already been done on Lindenstrasse in Sulzemoos as part of the road renovation.
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The community of Sulzemoos is converting all of the community's street lighting.
Sulzemoos - Street lamps secure traffic routes, but require a lot of electricity and are therefore also responsible for CO2 emissions.
The municipality of Sulzemoos would like to convert all of its street lighting to climate-friendly LED technology and is spending 55,000 euros for this.
At its most recent meeting, the local council unanimously and without discussion awarded a contract to Bayernwerk Netz.
The project was presented to the local council in January last year.
“A decision to award the contract has not yet been made because the necessary funding notices have not yet been received,” explained Mayor Johannes Kneidl.
But now the community has received approval from the government of Upper Bavaria to start the project early.
There are a total of 390 street lamps in the Sulzemoos municipality.
148 of these are fluorescent lamps and 126 are high-pressure sodium lamps.
116 lamps on streets that have been renovated in recent years are already equipped with LED technology, meaning that 274 lamps, which is almost three quarters of all lights, still need to be converted.
238 of these lamps are eligible.
The conversion is carried out by replacing the light head or by installing LED inserts; the lamp post remains unchanged.
In addition to financial savings in electricity and maintenance costs, Bayernwerk estimates that the switch can avoid 25 tons of CO2 annually.
LED lamps also have a proven advantage for the insect world.
Nocturnal insects are often attracted to artificial lighting, misdirected and disrupted in their delicate rhythm of life.
With the warm white LEDs used, the attracting effect is reduced.
In addition, the lights are dimmed to 50 percent between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
The total costs for the conversion are 177,000 euros, with 122,000 euros coming from federal and state funding, so that the municipality has to cover a share of 55,000 euros.
But patience is still required because the conversion will not take place that quickly.
“Due to resources, this could take a few more months,” believes the town hall boss.
CHRISTIAN STANGL