Major LED streetlighting upgrade for Hampshire and West Sussex

Three councils will upgrade a combined total of 82,010 streetlights over the next four years, through partnership with Enerveo. 

Hampshire County Council, Southampton City Council and West Sussex County Council have signed a deal with streetlighting contractor Enerveo for a major upgrade of streetlighting across the south. On-site work begins this month. 

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Good streetlighting is, of course, important for road safety – for both pedestrians and drivers. In addition, the South Coast LED project aims to provide greener, more sustainable lighting on roads across the region. 

LEDs have a much longer lifespan than traditional lights and use less electricity, and the three councils are expected to achieve 60% energy savings once the upgrade is complete. That also means savings in carbon emissions. In this way, the upgrade project will help the three local authorities in their aims to reach net zero. Greater energy efficiency will save the councils money, too. 

The project will see 64,249 lights upgraded to LEDs across the West Sussex County Council region over a four-year period. In addition, Enerveo will rollout its Mayflower Smart Control central management system (CMS) across the county, installing more than 65,000 Mayflower nodes. Each node sends and receives data, enabling full central control and monitoring of each individual lighting unit. 

For Hampshire County Council, Enerveo will upgrade 9,395 lights and for Southampton City Council 8,366 lights – in both cases, over a year-long period.  

Enerveo has worked with the three councils for more than a decade but the new deal will see a sizeable expansion in the scope of its private finance initiative (PFI) agreements. Equitix Management Services will oversee the management services agreement on all three projects. 

Patrick Rooney, Director of Highways Electrical at Enerveo, says: ‘We’re delighted to work in partnership with the councils to support their ambitious plans for a net zero future. The South Coast LED upgrade project has the capability to significantly reduce carbon output in the region and have a positive sustainability impact on local communities through the deployment of technological innovations such as Mayflower. We look forward to the opportunity to expand on our current responsibilities and respond to the increasing demand for greener, decarbonised public lighting.’ 

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