Bright lights of city to get green revamp

Dublin City Council has begun work on upgrading the city’s over 40,000 public lights to make them more energy efficient – a project which will take around eight years to complete.

The work is being carried out in partnership with le Chéile lighting Specialists.

it’s described as one of the city council’s key efforts in realising its “energy reduction and climate action goals”.

The completed project will achieve a 50% energy reduction from the baseline, resulting in a saving of 2,500 tonnes in CO2 annually.

Once completed, the city’s 47,000 public lighting lanterns will use lED technology and be monitored, managed, and controlled by a computerised system known as a central management system.

The Public lighting upgrade Project will see the replacement of 40,000 lightbulbs with energy efficient lED equivalents, as well as replacing up to 4,000 lighting columns.

A spokesperson added that “significant amounts of public lighting legacy cabling, including ducting” will also