Dimming could save £500,000 a year in Peterborough
The city of Peterborough is attempting to become UKs green capital. One way of achieving this is to dim the streetlights. The City Council is considering dimming in order to substantially reduce their carbon footprint. See more at Peterborough Today.
However, only lights on parkways would be dimmed, not residential area streetlights, where they would remain on full blast. With the dimming technologies available, it would make sense to dim streetlights everywhere, not just on parkways and motorways. One of the city councillors states in the article that dimming is not something that should be used on all roads. It seems that they still have some research to do over at Peterborough.