The Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) recently installed 20 integrated 80W solar powered Light Emitting Diode (LED) street lights in Agatash Village, Bartica.
According to a GEA press release, the street lights which use renewable energy from the sun to charge their batteries, provide lighting at nights using energy efficient LED lights.
The lights are controlled by a light sensitive circuit to switch the lights on in the evening and off at dawn. As part of the energy conservation features of this initiative, the technology dims the light by 50% when motion is not detected and returns to 100% brightness when motion is detected, the release stated. One advantage of these systems, the release said, is that they are not powered by the utility, thereby avoiding the use of fossil-based energy from the grid and the associated costs.
