Lake Macquarie first to trial LED floodlight

17 January 2008

Lake Macquarie City Council in New South Wales has installed an LED floodlight, making it the first council in Australia to trial the new technology. The 80 watt LED floodlight replaces a 250 watt globe, saving 170 watts of power. Another advantage of the LED light is that it has a life span of 50,000 hours, whereas the life span of the 250 watt globe is only 8,000 hours.

The council has calculated that the LED floodlight could provide significant financial and greenhouse savings. It estimates that the electricity costs of the LED floodlight will be about $28 per unit annually, compared with $96 per unit for the standard globe, and that the LED product will save council 10 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per unit.

The light's efficiency, light output and greenhouse gas emissions will be monitored during the trial, which will continue until March 2008. For more information, contact Rod Ingersoll on (02) 4921 0142.