Clean energy with hybrid and solar street lighting

Clean energy

Not just less energy, but also less carbon

 

Typically, in an economy like the UK, greenhouse gas emissions exceed 75% from energy use and production. To reach our climate goals we must decarbonise by reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. The UK is in a leadership position when it comes to renewable electricity, particularly from wind production, but we can also support this with solar power. Linking this to connected smart systems minimises energy waste, and increasing the use of super- efficient products (such as LED) allows us to ensure that clean, renewable, grid-based supply goes further.

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What Signify's Green Switch can do


Energy efficiency battles climate change by reducing energy usage. Clean energy battles climate change by decarbonising the energy that is used. Our solar and hybrid-solar street lights generate reduced carbon emissions while leveraging the most cost-efficient energy source around: the sun. Infrastructure projects, such as connected street lighting retrofits, typically create on average 19 local jobs for every £1 million spent, benefitting the environment and the economy, and building the digital platforms needed to ensure a green future.

  • Solar and hybrid street lighting minimize emissions and scale up the use of renewables

  • Hybrid-solar technology uses clean solar-powered electricity when there is sunlight, and the mains grid when there is not

  • 15 solar streetlights save enough electricity to power an electric car or a household for one year

  • Solar lighting on Leipsoi Island in Greece

    Solar lighting on Leipsoi Island in Greece

    Signify installed solar luminaires to protect the island’s environment while enhancing safety in places that were insufficiently illuminated before.

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  • Solar lights the way towards sustainability

    Solar lights the way towards sustainability

    The rise of solar energy is leading to a shift in the way we power lighting across the world.

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  • Signify offers product portfolio meeting new EU Ecodesign and Energy labeling regulations

    Signify offers product portfolio meeting new EU Ecodesign and Energy labeling regulations

    Signify confirms that its leading lighting portfolio will meet the new EU Ecodesign and Energy labeling regulations, which will affect all lighting products in the EU Member States from September 2021 onwards.

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  • Driving sustainability breakthroughs with the IoT

    Driving sustainability breakthroughs with the IoT

    Since sustainability is a system design issue, how can IoT systems help create the necessary conditions for making fundamental changes in how we consume and structure our economic life?

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  • Seville improves citizens’ safety with Signify’s solar street lights

    Seville improves citizens’ safety with Signify’s solar street lights

    Solar lighting will enhance the safety of visitors to the Infanta Elena Park in Seville, Spain. During the pilot project, 20 Philips SunStay solar street lights will be installed in the park, underscoring both Seville’s and Signify’s commitment to sustainability.

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  • Circular economy

    Circular economy

    The circular economy has everything to do with sustainable consumption, reuse, and eliminating waste. Signify’s recyclable 3D-printed luminaires cut the carbon footprint for lighting in half. Circular streetlights reduce maintenance costs by 60%, with zero waste to landfill. And Light-as-a-Service approaches promote sustainability along the entire lighting lifecycle.

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  • Clean mobility

    Clean mobility

    Charge stations built into digital streetlights support the Green Deal’s goal of a million EV charging points in Europe by 2025. Savings from energy-efficiency renovations and LED and solar street lighting can power tens of thousands of EVs without extra power generation.

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  • Biodiversity

    Biodiversity

    A farm-to-fork approach helps to preserve the world’s food supply. LED grow lights boost crop quality and yield with up to half the energy consumption. Lighting designed for vertical farming near cities reduces the carbon and water use, and reduces food miles, while aquaculture lighting increases yield, improves feed conversion and improves animal welfare.

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