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Bizarre, confusing and contradictory: The strange tale of 10,000 missing LEDs

08/03/2023

National Highways underestimated the number of LEDs already on its network by 10,000, creating confusion across its carbon reduction plans.

McCann to carry out £6.5m Hillingdon street light upgrade

19/01/2017

McCann will replace and maintain street lighting in London’s second largest borough, Hillingdon, after being awarded a £6.5 million contract.

LED upgrade for Cheshire West and Chester

17/01/2017

More than 24,000 street lights will be upgraded in Cheshire West and Chester at a cost of £5 million.

Lighting upgrade forms part of A465 works

09/12/2016

A major road upgrade is underway on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road in South Wales with SSE Enterprise awarded the contract to install 500 new street lights along the route.

VolkerHighways wins £4.7m lighting contract

31/10/2016

VolkerHighways has been awarded a £4.7 million contract with London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to replace nearly 16 thousand street lights with new LED lanterns.

LED street light roll out continues in Gloucestershire

31/08/2016

Gloucestershire County Council is continuing its roll out of LED street lighting with the upgrade set to save the local authority £17 million over the next 12 years.

Volker begins street light upgrade in three counties

29/06/2016

VolkerHighways has started work on a contract worth £24 million that will see it upgrade 38,000 street lights with energy efficient LED lamps in Slough, Wokingham and Reading.

LED upgrade for Bath’s street lights

25/05/2016

More than 8,000 street lights in Bath will be replaced with new light emitting diode (LED) units.

More LED street lights to be installed in Hertfordshire

16/05/2016

Hertfordshire County Council is continuing its rollout of LED lights following the successful upgrade of more than 12,000 street lights on all A-roads across the county.

Skanska upgrading street lights in Gloucestershire

06/04/2016

Skanska has officially taken over the general maintenance of Gloucestershire County Council’s entire street lighting portfolio.

Bolton making switch to LED lighting

01/04/2016

Almost 10,000 street lights in Bolton have been switched over to new LED lighting.

Engineers on target to complete street light repairs in Wirral

14/03/2016

Engineers are working through a backlog of street light repairs in Wirral.

LED switchover for lights on M8 in Scotland

08/03/2016

More than 100 lamps on the M8 in Scotland will be switched to LED lighting.

Lincolnshire Council to make street light savings

07/03/2016

Lincolnshire County Council is aiming to save £1.7 million by changing the way it manages street lighting.

Kent to return to all-night lighting with £40m LED upgrade

22/02/2016

Kent County Council (KCC) will spend £40 million on LED lights after agreeing on a policy to return to all-night lighting.

Scotland switching over to LED street lights

16/02/2016

Almost one-third of Scotland’s street lamps will be LEDs by 2017, according to figures released by the Scottish Futures Trust.

Further LED lighting upgrade in Hertfordshire

15/02/2016

Street lights on B, C and unclassified (residential) roads in Hertfordshire will be upgraded to LED technology.   

£40m contract to convert Kent’s street lights to LEDs awarded

01/02/2016

Infrastructure firm Bouygues Energies & Services has been awarded a £40 million contract to convert Kent’s 118,000 street lights to LEDs.

Volker wins £27m contract to upgrade lights in three boroughs

10/12/2015

VolkerHighways will replace more than 38,000 street lights in Reading, Slough and Wokingham in April 2016 as part of a £27 million LED upgrade and maintenance project.

Hertfordshire to test LED street lights

03/12/2015

Hertfordshire County Council will be dimming and trimming some LED street lights overnight to test residents’ reactions to the energy-saving initiative.

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