{"id":31192,"date":"2023-08-23T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31192"},"modified":"2023-08-23T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T21:04:51","slug":"new-led-street-lights-in-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31192","title":{"rendered":"New LED Street Lights in Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023082302.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nOxfordshire County Council have been investing in new street lights, in a bid to save money on energy bills and reduce CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a 5 year, \u00a35 million contract, the contractor will upgrade 35,000 streetlights and illuminated signs with LED lighting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023082303.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThey are also replacing old lampposts. This week has seen new lampposts along Wilsham Road and along the lower half of\u00a0 Preston Road and Saxton Road.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023082304.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe new LED street lights in Wilsham Road produce the same river view at night using about 75% less energy than the old fluorescent bulbs. LEDs produce very little heat, unlike fluorescent bulbs, which burn about 80% of their energy as heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfordshire County Council have been investing in new street lights, in a bid to save money on energy bills and reduce CO2 emissions. As part of a 5 year, \u00a35 million contract, the contractor will upgrade 35,000 streetlights and illuminated signs with LED lighting. They are also replacing old lampposts. This week has seen new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-street-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}