LDA City streetlights to go solar: 200-watt LED poles approved for Jinnah Sector

The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) will move the street lighting in its housing scheme LDA City to solar power, starting with the Jinnah Sector, ProPakistani reported on Thursday.

The authority's governing body, chaired by the LDA vice chairman, approved funding for the project after its PC-1 was presented at the meeting.

What is planned

• New streetlight poles in the Jinnah Sector, each fitted with a 200-watt solar LED light.
• All LDA City streetlights to shift to solar over time.
• More solar installations elsewhere to cut LDA's dependence on grid electricity and its long-term running costs.

The decision follows trial installations of solar lights at several locations, whose performance the authority reviewed before going ahead, according to the report. A timeline and project cost were not given.

Why it matters to LDA City residents

Streetlights on grid power stop working during outages and load shedding, and their bills are paid by the development authority. Solar lights with batteries keep streets lit when the grid is down.

For plot owners, working streetlights are one of the basic services that make a sector liveable.

Thinking of solar at home?

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