Thursday, February 13, 2025

Blacktown’s power saving bid

A program to retrofit local street lights with LED lighting components is well underway in Blacktown.

Blacktown City Council is working with Endeavour Energy to create both environmental and financial benefits for the city.

It says the switching of street lamps by Endeavour Energy will reduce carbon emissions by 9,445 tonnes per year, equating to $2.2 million per year in Council electricity savings.

“By September of 2023, Endeavour Energy will have retrofitted 30,348 Blacktown City street lights to LED. As of July, the job is around 94% complete,” said Mayor, Tony Bleasdale OAM.

“In Western Sydney, Blacktown City is completing one of the largest residential street light upgrade programs in Australia.”

In Blacktown’s new growth areas, in suburbs like Marsden Park, Riverstone and Schofields, developers are also being required to install LED street lighting.

General Manager Business Services at Endeavour Energy, Andrew Pitman, congratulated Council on its participation in the program, saying the new LED technology will result in direct benefits for the community.

“By switching to LED streetlights, we are able to provide more efficient and sustainable public lighting resulting in both environment and financial benefits for the Blacktown community,” Mr Pitman said.

Mayor Bleasdale said Council remains committed to working with strategic partners and the community to ensure a sustainable future for the city.

“Council has acknowledged that we are in a state of climate emergency and we have committed to a series of measures to reduce the impact of climate change on our residents and achieve a zero-net emissions target by 2030 for Council’s operational electricity, fuel and gas use.”

“Council has more than doubled its rooftop solar energy production by installing 1,800 solar panels across 16 sites,” Mayor Bleasdale said.

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