Taiwan's outlying island of Kinmen has installed a new system of LED lamps for street lighting as part of the county's low carbon energy-saving efforts.

As the county government was awarded a grant by the Ministry of Economic Affairs' Bureau of Energy to finance the plan, Sixty-nine automated LED lamps were installed on a section of the island's Huandao East Road, replacing the previous sodium and mercury street lamps.

It's considered as a pilot program for the use of LED technology, which will be expanded island-wide by 2014 in a project that is estimated to cost NT$365 million (US$11.87 million).

Reportedly, Kinmen was chosen as one of six low-carbon areas designated by the Council of Economic Planning and Development as part of a government energy-saving and carbon reduction program.