The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is set to replace all 4, 13,029 high pressure sodium vapour (HPSV) streetlights with light-emitting diodes (LED) ahead of Ugadi. This initiative would save GHMC about Rs 1000 million annually.
An extensive study would be conducted within 15 days to initiate the LED project. Officials said that streetlights with different capacities like 20 W, 40W, 70W, and 120W would be installed, based on the width of the road.
The sodium vapour street lights in the city consume about 60 MW of power per year and the corporation has been spending about Rs 1900 million to maintain them.
He said that the project would also cover replacement warranty of streetlights, and free operation and maintenance during the tenure. A centralised monitoring and control system would also be put in place, he added.
The GHMC official further said that the corporation had started replacing HPSV streetlights with LEDs at Tank Bund and on the Necklace Road.
