In keeping with Government’s aim of improving energy efficiency and conservation nationwide, the Ministry of Public Utilities, through the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC), has commenced the installation of LED streetlights on Saddle Road, Maraval.
This continues the Ministry’s thrust to replace High Pressure Sodium (HPS) streetlights with LEDs throughout the national system.
This upgrade will see the change-out of 145 HPS street lights along the Saddle Road, starting at the Maraval Roundabout. A further 88 LEDs are slated for installation, which will bring the total number of LEDs installed to 233.
Surveys are also ongoing in east, central, and south Trinidad, as well as Tobago as the installation of LEDs expands further across the country.
T&TEC’s programme to phase out over 200,000 HPS bulbs started in 2016 with a pilot project around the Queens Park Savannah. Since then, LEDs have been used to replace HPS bulbs and for new installations across the country, including in Aripo, Lopinot, Piarco, Rienzi-Kirton Highway, parts of the Solomon Hochoy Highway, Arima and Milford Road Tobago. Solar LED street lights have also been installed along the Manzanilla coastline and part of the Priority Bus Route.
