Danish Amplex can save cities a fortune
The Danish financial newspaper Borsen writes that the Danish energy optimization specialist Amplex has developed a street light system that can generate energy savings of up to 30 %.
With large cities in mind, such savings can lead to interesting results on both the financial and green accounts. Amplex has already carried out a great deal of projects in Scandinavia, the Middle East and in Asia. At the moment, the company is negotiating to supply an energy saving system to Beijing, a city of 18 million inhabitants.
Amplex has already carried out a pilot project of its street light control and management system on an urban freeway to Beijing, and has achieved energy savings of about 30 %. According to the company, the savings could be even bigger, if the solution is rolled out in the rest of the city.
The street light system works by automatically varying the lighting intensity to suit actual needs in residential and industrial areas as conditions change from sunrise to sunset.
Amplex’ International Project Manager, Jacob Richard Nielsen, explains to Borsen: “Our system can be installed in the course of six to nine months in a metropolis, and even within that time the savings are normally sizeable enough to pay for the system.”