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The Welsh government has green lit a multi-million-pound energy efficiency project to help local authorities in the country reduce their carbon emissions.

Rugby Union team Harlequins will see the energy consumption used to light its stadium fall by two thirds after installing a new LED floodlighting system.

A project to replace thousands of streetlights with low-energy LEDs in the Scottish Borders has been expanded by a third and accelerated to complete two years ahead of schedule.

Barking and Dagenham Council has secured a £6.8m loan from the Green Investment Bank to finance the replacement of nearly 15,000 traditional streetlights with energy-saving LED alternatives.

The Green Investment Bank has agreed to part-fund a streetlight conversion programme for Kent County Council which will see 120,000 traditional streetlights replaced with more efficient alternatives.

Llumarlite have been delivering lighting services and solutions to commercial clients for over twenty years. With a focus on legacy lighting issues, architecturally sensitive lighting schemes and projects with more challenging lighting requirements, Llumarlite have the experience and expertise to deliver the right solutions to meet the most complex of lighting challenges.

Electrical manufacturer Legrand has strengthened its lighting control business by acquiring the London-based CP Electronics.

Lighting manufacturers will be able to continue taking advantage of a loophole in design regulations allowing them to make false energy performance claims after the European Commission voted to exclude the sector from stricter regulations.

Abellio Greater Anglia has concluded its current programme of energy efficiency upgrades following the completion of electrical and lighting improvements at several rail stations in East Anglia.

With more than 85 manufacturing facilities around the world and a target of being ‘net zero energy’ by 2020, the Kingspan group of companies has its work cut out. A switch of lighting systems at one facility however helped it save 91% of its annual lighting costs.