The civic body has floated tenders to replace the sodium-vapor street lamps in old corporation limits with LED lamps. The project seeks to replace 58,000 sodium-vapor lamps at a cost of Rs 81 crore.
The scheme to provide LED bulbs to households across the country has led to annual savings of upto Rs 50,000 crore in electricity bills, said finance minister Piyush Goyal in his Interim Budget speech for 2019-20.
Italian Scientists have developed ways to generate power with living plants for lighting up LED bulbs, providing a “green” solution of sustainable power. The research was done by the team of roboticists and biologists at IIT-Istituto
The 17,000 employees of Rajasthan’s first power distribution company in Ajmer are on a mission to replace bulbs with the LED lights in tribal areas.
The Union government has launched Gram Swaraj Abhiyan, to promote social harmony and apprises rural communities of various government welfare schemes and initiatives. The campaign was launched on April 14 and will continue till May 5 in 16000 villages across the country.
The Maharashtra government has directed all the civic bodies in the state to use energy efficient LED bulbs for street lighting.
In what is believed to be a milestone, more than 28 crore LED bulbs have been distributed under Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) Scheme till 19th December 2017.
To help the gram panchayats save on power bills with the saved money helping in the development of amenities for people, West Godavari administration will install as many as 2.64 lakh LED bulbs for street lights in 909 gram panchayats in the district.
State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has undertaken the implementation of energy efficiency initiatives across various manufacturing facilities of Tata Motors in India, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
An estimated three crore plus energy efficient LED bulbs would be distributed in Tamil Nadu in another one year under the Centre’s UJALA scheme, a senior official of ESSL, the implementing agency, said here today.
