What is the Cost of Street Lamp? How Much to Replace and Run the Street Lights?

When it comes to how much does the street lights cost, many of us will be afraid of the price to replace and run the street lamps after buying them. Indeed, knowing the truth in advance is beneficial for us to have a successful project. The cost of street light 100W is ranged from US$99 to US$180. Since there are many applications such as highway, sidewalk, pavement and square, there are four types of street lights, including solar LED, halogen, fluorescent, metal halide and high pressure sodium, and their price and running cost varies. There are many areas are doing the LED street light replacement such as India, Taiwan, New Zealand and Canada. By doing the LED replacement, you will save the energy consumption and thus electricity of street light use per day. Now the question is – how much can we save?

Cost of street light

How Much Does Street Lighting Cost? Is it Expensive to Replace?

The price changes in accordance with type and power. We are now illustrating this by using 100W LED equivalent street light. Our LED cost is US$99, while you may observe the cost of street light ranged from US$110 to US$180 for many companies. You may experience the cost of LED streetlight is expensive than halogen or high pressure sodium. It is because LED has much longer life span of 80,000 hours, which is 8 to 10 times higher than MH or other HID. You can save more by switching to LED in long term. We should always consider the cost before and after the purchase – the replacement cost and electricity cost to operate the street lamps.

Plus, we also need manpower and cost to install and replace the street lamps. the estimated cost of a street light pole is US$2000 to US$3000, with electrician cost to put in street light to installation is up to $1000! If your project is for the highway or bridge, the total cost will raise by 20% more. Why the installation price is so high? It is because booking the lifting platform and labor is very expensive. Besides, the whole process is very time consuming – imagine we need to re-install each street light for a 3km highway! The blockage of road will also cost significant economic loss; therefore, why not replacing the street light that have slightly higher cost but 10 times life span than the HID? The US$8000 cost of street light replacement is saved if we do not need to re-install them.

Replacement and running cost of different types of street light

How Much Electricity cost to Run the Street Lights?

After the flawless installation, you can now introduce to the final user how much can they save when calculating the power consumption of street light for running them per day. For instance, we have a 1km long two-lane expressway, with 40m pole distance and using 100 watt LED street light, we have 40 LED working at the same time. taking the average electricity cost of $0.12 kW/h as a reference, the running cost for street light 40 * 100 * 0.12/1000 = $0.48 per hours. If you use metal halide, halogen or high pressure sodium street lamps, we need $1 running cost per hour to produce the same brightness. If you want to calculate the cost to operate the 1km street light per day, it is around $0.48 * 12 = $5.76 daily based on 12 hours operation, and monthly $172.8 (30 days). The maintenance cost is nearly zero for at least 10 years because of high durability of LED lights. The power consumption and electricity cost can be further reduced for solar street lights.

If you are interested in get the quote for LED street light, please feel free to shoot us an email to beatus@ledsmaster.com, we are looking forward to your message.

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