LED - Increasing Energy Saving through Conversion to LED lighting in public space

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The LED project is based upon national energy action plans that present national strategies on how the EU Member States intend to achieve their adopted energy savings target by 2016. It aims at providing verified arguments for a conversion of city & road lighting to the energy-saving, environmentally friendly and versatile LED-technology, promoting the LED-technology, creating know-how and raising the awareness for energy-saving. It shall create test pilots and best practices on innovative methods of public lighting in cities and regions.Focus will be to investigate in effective measures to reduce the energy consumption and CO2 emissions caused by public lighting. The project will therefore establish a network on international, national, regional and local level in order to adapt the existing LED solutions to municipal needs and stimulate & facilitate rapid conversion to LED.The projects’ activities are structured in four components: C 1: Coordination & Management C 1 includes the overall management of the project, including coordination of progress, financial management, information management and reporting. C 2: Promotion & Information & Education C2 is dedicated to the promotion of the projects’ activities, results and the overall message to use energy efficient technology in order to reduce energy consumption. The planned promotion activities shall effect a change in thinking at political level, administrational level and the general public. C 3: Technology & design, user’s needs C 3 targets at cluster building between researchers, staff of light fitting producers, civil servants & decision makers for know-how exchange. Education activities for children & youth will be realised as well as investigation in users’ demands, the market and development of adapted design solutions of LED lighting for specific areas and user types. C 4: LED Lighting in context of city planning & road planning In C 4 pilot investments into LED lighting applications will be realised in selected test areas. It involves all necessary pre-planning, the construction, the testing and evaluation of the LED applications. The partners will support each other with gained know-how and transfer the results within planners’ workshops. The project will result in: • Raised awareness of the advantages of LED technology due to a targeted information campaign • Increased commitment to the implementation of LED in public lighting to save energy and costs • A triple helix network for lobbying of LED technology • Durable education effects / Guide on lighting demands & inventory of status of technological development • Developed standards for public lighting by LED • Design manual for planners & manufacturers • Pilot LED lighting installations & evaluation results à Best practice models and applicable LED solutions for lighting in public space as convincing arguments for future investments into lighting infrastructure in cities & regions of South BSR & beyond

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