LeafNut
With approximately 7.5 million street lights in the UK alone, new technology to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions has long been awaited. Here at Harvard Engineering, we have spent 6 years developing our revolutionary new LeafNut monitoring and control system, which has already won a string of awards and is set to dramatically reduce the estimated 830,000 tonnes of CO2 produced in the UK every year by street lighting.
It is already operational in a number of towns and cities including Durham, Sheffield and Warrington in the UK, Zürs in Austria, Heerlen in Holland and Bergisch Gladbach in Germany, as local authorities aim to reduce the estimated 40% of a town or city’s energy budget which is spent on street lighting.
The benefits of using LeafNut
Local authorities in the UK are looking for opportunities to meet stringent targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in line with The Climate Change Act, as well as make savings on energy usage.
LeafNut has already brought many benefits to local authorities, both here in the UK and Europe, as it not only minimises energy usage, but also delivers substantial financial savings to installers, operators and maintainers of the system. In addition it has the ability to extend maintenance periods, allows accurate planning of maintenance schedules and ensures the maximum number of street lights are working at any given time.
