StreetLightNews

At the Spring Mountain Ranch community in Nevada, a rather unconventional solution has been chosen for powering the community’s street light.

A total of 992 lamps are running on natural gas, and since they are not equipped with the technology to be turned off, they burn 24 hours a day, summer and winter.

This comes at a high cost for the community, and the residents are picking up the tab. A resident from the homeowner’s association reports that one month’s gas bill comes to $17,500. This equals $17 per lamp per month. Electricity-powered street lights in the area cost between $3 and $6 a month.

Abandoning the solution is not really an option as the gas company will charge $240 per lamp to be retrofitted to electricity. So for now, the lights will stay on 24h.

Read the article here… 

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