Stirling Council to cut streetlamp energy consumption by 63% with £10m LED lighting loan

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signpost_720x535_energyefficiencyStirling Council is swapping 12,000 sodium lightbulbs for LEDs over the next four years in a move it predicts will cut energy consumption by 67%.

The council has borrowed £9.87m from the Green Investment Bank for the refit and is the third council in the UK to take out a GIB Green Loan following Glasgow and Southend on Sea.

The loan works in the same way as an energy performance contract, where it is repaid from energy bill savings.

While a lack of standardisation in energy efficiency projects has been cited as a barrier to investment, the GIB says it and legal adviser Shepherd and Wedderburn have standardised the process, helping to bring down transaction costs.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. I would like to ask why nearly every council in the United Kingdom and overseas too all more or less at the same time carried out the exact same lighting upgrades for the exact same nonsensical reasons.

    Google “LED lighting council”

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