Why Install Solar Lighting?
Lighting is such an obvious choice for solar power, not only because the power required by new generation outdoor LED lighting is quite small and often low voltage (12v or less), but for the simple reason that during the day, when lighting is usually not required, the sun can fully charge the batteries that will power the lights and the stored electricity then used at night. It’s a perfect, free, pollution less power cycle. So, the obvious attraction of solar lighting is that once you get beyond the initial capital investment, it’s effectively completely free to run, indefinitely. Which is great news since the true cost of lighting, it turns out, consists almost entirely of the cost of running it (even quite high purchase prices become dwarfed over time by electrical running costs) Another compelling argument in favour of solar lighting is that because it is adopted by individual households as a “personal” lighting solution, it is intrinsically scaleable. No-one has to wait for a gover
