Royal Philips Electronics has installed 149 LED streetlamps in six streets around the Durban International Conference Centre (ICC).

The new street lighting is part of a joint initiative by Philips, State-owned power utility Eskom, the Department of Environmental Affairs and the eThekwini municipality, to demonstrate the significant advances being made in energy-efficient LED lighting.

The new lighting offers energy savings of 47.4 MWh a year, or 26% when compared with the older 250 W metal halide street lights they replaced, and at the same time provides superb light quality.

The LEDs provide 21 126 lumens, at a colour temperature of 5 700 k, while it is designed to last for 60 000 hours.