Solar Street Lights: the Best Choice for Rural Areas

In today's era when the earth's energy is scarce, environmental pollution is getting worse and everyone are advocated saving energy and developing sustainably, the use of solar energy undoubtedly has huge benefits. The street lights that provide lighting and safety at night consume a lot of electricity every year. The use of solar street lights will greatly reduce energy consumption. More importantly, for remote areas such as rural areas, due to the lack of sufficient power facilities, solar street lights are the best choice.

The problem of building solar led street lights in rural areas

When sky gets dark, people who live in the city will notice solar street lighting illuminate all the darkness in the city. But for people in the countryside and mountain villages, their night is dark. To develop rural areas, we must first develop infrastructure and street lights are one of the important projects.

Rural areas are remote areas, with many mountains and few roads, scattered people and lack of resources. If we use wires to connect to build an electric street light system, it will occupy rural land and the cost and manpower will be very large. Therefore, considering the establishment of a large-scale solar grid that can supply power to all houses in the area may be very possible.

Unending benefits of solar street light

What are the benefits of applying solar street lights in rural areas?

1. Compared to grid-connected street light, the installation of a solar street light is very convenient, and it does not need to dig and bury electric wires, which helps save a lot of construction costs.




2. There are many advantages of using solar street lights, such as energy-saving, environmental protection and zero electricity charges.




3. The maintenance of solar lights is very little, especially with the increase in LED technology. Most components last 20+ years, with only the battery requiring maintenance every five to seven years with many commercially designed systems.

   
   

   We have to solve these problems

   
   

   To brighten rural roads, we also need to consider and solve the following problems:

   
   

   1. The interval is very far, the brightness is not enough

   
   

   Some rural areas have installed solar street lights, but the distance between these solar street lights is a bit far, and the distance between some street lights is even several hundred meters. In rural areas, there are many trees and many bends. When a street light whose brightness does not meet the requirements, it can only illuminate a small area under the street lamp. Obviously, this brightness does not meet the lighting requirements and cannot meet the needs of rural lighting.

   
   

   2. The quality is worrying and the after-sales service is difficult

   
   

   If the government does not strictly control the quality of solar street lights in rural areas, many manufacturers may provide street light products of general quality. These ordinary street lights will cause many after-sales problems. In addition, insufficient maintenance management is also an important issue. When these street lights start to have problems, some people will come to fix them. But afterwards, even if it was broken, no one was responsible, and it was always bad, and the street lighting time became shorter and shorter. When the weather is clear, the lighting time will be longer; however, if it rains, the lights will suddenly "strike" for a period of time.

   
   

   3. Inappropriate location, affecting the effect

   
   In rural areas, some solar led street lights are installed under big trees, resulting in insufficient light. Therefore, the natural electricity generated is very small. On the other hand, some of these street lights are directly installed on the walls of residential houses. When it gets dark, the street lights will automatically light up, and the residents' homes will be very bright. If the residents go to bed early, it will affect the quality of sleep. In summer, street light sources tend to attract mosquitoes and bring a lot of trouble to normal life.

   
   

   Compared to using circuit street light, applying solar street light in rural areas is the best choice. But meanwhile, we should pay attention to the possible problems and find out the possible solutions, ensure the smooth implementation of rural streetlight projects.