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BVIEC continues LED pilot programme

- 40% energy reduction expected with new streetlight installations
The BVIEC's LED Roadway Lighting Pilot Programme exercise continued today, January 6, 2014 in Road Town as workers from the company braved morning showers to complete installations from the Urbis manufacturing company along Waterfront Drive. Photo: VINO
The BVIEC now has LED streetlight fixtures on trial in the areas of Joes Hill Road, Main Street, Long Bush Road, Scatliffe Alley and Sir Walter Francis Drive, from manufacturers such as General Electric, Philips and Cree. Photo: VINO
The BVIEC now has LED streetlight fixtures on trial in the areas of Joes Hill Road, Main Street, Long Bush Road, Scatliffe Alley and Sir Walter Francis Drive, from manufacturers such as General Electric, Philips and Cree. Photo: VINO
The BVIEC now has LED streetlight fixtures on trial in the areas of Joes Hill Road, Main Street, Long Bush Road, Scatliffe Alley and Sir Walter Francis Drive, from manufacturers such as General Electric, Philips and Cree. Photo: VINO
The BVIEC now has LED streetlight fixtures on trial in the areas of Joes Hill Road, Main Street, Long Bush Road, Scatliffe Alley and Sir Walter Francis Drive, from manufacturers such as General Electric, Philips and Cree. Photo: VINO
The BVIEC now has LED streetlight fixtures on trial in the areas of Joes Hill Road, Main Street, Long Bush Road, Scatliffe Alley and Sir Walter Francis Drive, from manufacturers such as General Electric, Philips and Cree. Photo: VINO
The BVIEC now has LED streetlight fixtures on trial in the areas of Joes Hill Road, Main Street, Long Bush Road, Scatliffe Alley and Sir Walter Francis Drive, from manufacturers such as General Electric, Philips and Cree. Photo: VINO
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Residents are already beginning to see changes in the Territory’s roadway lighting infrastructure at nights, from the customary “yellowish” beam emitted from the existing streetlights to that of a “white” beam, as the BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) continues to roll out its LED Roadway Lighting Pilot Programme.

The exercise continued today, January 6, 2014 in Road Town as workers from the company braved morning showers to complete installations from the Urbis Manufacturing Company. 

In some cases, the company reported, the new LED streetlights on trial consume in excess of 40% less energy than the traditional streetlights that have been in use throughout the Territory. 

The BVIEC now has LED streetlight fixtures on trial in the areas of Joes Hill Road, Main Street, Long Bush Road, Scatliffe Alley and Sir Walter Francis Drive, from manufacturers such as General Electric, Philips and Cree. 

Fixtures from other manufacturers such as American Electric Lighting, LED Roadway Lighting and AMS are also being added. 

According to the BVIEC, “The purpose for the roadway lighting pilots in both LED and Solar is to ultimately convert the entire Territory into a combination of these two technologies.”  

It was further disclosed that these will inevitably translate to a reduction in the operating and maintenance cost to the utility and the Government of the Virgin Islands who bears not only the cost of new streetlight installations, but also the energy consumed by all public lights installed within the Territory.

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