Are Solar Powered Street Lamps Worth Buying?

With the construction of outdoor lighting projects in the new countryside, solar powered street lamps are becoming more and more recognized by residents. There are also many users who complain that the quality of the solar powered street lamps they buy is not good or the price is too high. Solar powered street lamp is a complex outdoor lighting system, composed of controller, light source, battery, solar panel and other accessories. The performance of each accessory affects the quality of solar system street lights. The quality of solar powered street lamps on the market is indeed uneven, which requires us to fully understand this outdoor solar lighting solution. So is solar powered street lamp worth buying? In this article, we will analyze it.

First, determine where the street lights are installed. If it is a household lighting, it is installed in the yard, and you can compare the cost of buying a conventional street lamp and a solar powered street lamp. In addition to the cost of the street lamp itself, the cost of digging and laying lines and the annual electricity bill need to be calculated for installing conventional street lamps. Household lighting generally does not require very high brightness of street lamps. If it is a new countryside construction or installed on both sides of the highway, it is more convenient to use solar powered street lamps. Because the number of street lights is large, the electricity bill is saved more, and the follow-up maintenance is also very convenient. At the same time, if the solar powered street lamp is well maintained, the service life is 5-10 years. Basically, in the first 5 years, solar powered street lamps did not need to be repaired. There is also a special case, that is, it is installed in backward areas such as Africa. These backward areas are not connected to the power grid, so their night activities are very inconvenient without lighting. If you install solar powered street lamps, you do not need to use on grid electricity. For areas without on grid electricity, solar powered street lamps are the best choice.

Solar powered street lamps bring long-term benefits

Solar street lamps are very energy-efficient, calculated based on 4m street lights and 8m street lights. After the use of solar powered street lamps, the 4m street lamp and the 8m street lamp save about 2,190 kilowatt-hours of electricity each year, and the electricity bill saves 1,533 RMB. At present, with the acceleration of Chinese urbanization process and the acceleration of urban infrastructure construction, the market demand for lighting products in cities is gradually expanding. Under the background of energy shortage, traditional lighting equipment consumes huge energy, and there is huge energy waste, and it also affects the urban ecological environment. This is obviously not in line with the development direction of energy utilization in China. The emergence of solar powered street lamps has effectively made up for the above shortcomings. Solar powered street lamps can reduce lighting power consumption and are an important way to save energy. 65% of China's energy resources are coal resources. The consumption of coal resources produces a large amount of carbon dioxide, which pollutes the environment. Solar energy is a clean and renewable energy source. Using solar energy to provide lighting can greatly reduce carbon dioxide emissions and save emission reduction costs. China is rich in solar energy resources, and solar powered street lamps can make full use of solar energy to provide lighting.

No need to dig trenches to lay lines, original urban appearance can be maintained

Unlike conventional street lights, trenching, digging and laying cables are not required. Sometimes, it can be difficult to destory the original infrastructure. If there are natural gas pipelines nearby,how to lay the cables without destorying the existed pipelines can be annoying. You may be not allowed to dig holes in the places where there are lots of pipelines or you may need a permission from the government. Solar powered street lamps have simple installation. You can save the manpower and cost. Take a 6-meter street lamp as an example, all are equipped with 30w LED lights, the distance between the lamps is 30 meters, the cost of slotting, burying and re-slotting each conventional street light needs 1200-1500 RMB, these costs are enough to buy a good set of solar powered street lamp.

In conclusion, whether solar powered street lamps are worth buying depends on your installation environment. If there is no grid connection in the wilderness, solar powered street lamps are your first choice. If it is used for home lighting, the lighting requirements are not high, and the electricity cost of using the traditional street lamp is not high, then choose the traditional type. You can also consider the energy conservation and environmental protection. However, with the continuous progress of solar energy technology and the continuous decline of costs, the use of solar powered street lamps will definitely become more and more common.