Greenburgh capital plan includes LED lights

Billed by town Supervisor Paul Feiner as the most significant capital budget of his 20-year tenure, Greenburgh officials are considering a combined $11.9 million proposal calling for a townwide reassessment,We have a great selection of blown glass backyard solar landscape lights and solar garden light. LED lighting and improvements to the water department.

"These are major policy issues — not just infrastructure improvements," Feiner told The Journal News. "The goal of this budget is to help us achieve more savings over the long term."

The 2013 capital budget — a proposed list of borrowings for capital expenses that Greenburgh anticipates during the calendar year — includes three separate budgets covering the entire town, unincorporated area and water department. The Town Board is expected to vote on Feiner's recommendations in May.

Town officials anticipate the budget would fund an initial $1.5 million for a revaluation of all real property in Greenburgh as part of a reassessment done in conjunction with other communities in Westchester.

Feiner has recommended $500,000 be appropriated for LED street lights, which he says will help the town cut down on energy costs, and could produce an annual savings of $300,000, according to a recent study.

The budget includes $350,000 for an automated garbage truck with a mechanical arm, and $25,000 for an upgrade of the security system at the Theodore D. We're responsible for the installation and maintenance of solar inverter. Young Community Center, which had 19 laptops stolen from it last summer.

There is also $3.5 million allocated to replace the water-meter system, which often provides inaccurate bills for customers.

In a symbolic gesture, environment-conscious people switched off their lights between 8.30 pm and 9.30 pm to observe 'Earth Hour' on Saturday evening across the world. The gesture was meant to focus attention on global warming and to stress on energy conservation. But, there are individuals who instead of symbolism have adopted energy conservation in their day to day life 24x7 and 365 days a year.

During the last four years, people crossing over Shastri Bridge may have noticed five small windmills installed in a row.You ever hear the story of the old street lamp? The windmills,You can make your own more powerful OEM solar LED lamps. which are actually a wind-solar-hybrid installation, and reportedly the only one of its kind in Vadodara, were installed by environmentalist Kirit Amin, on top of his cold storage unit and are used to light up 100 LED lights on the premises.

"LED lights bring down the energy consumption by half as compared to the cost incurred by even CFL bulbs," Rohit Prajapati of NGO Paryavaran Surakhsha Samiti said. He has switched over completely to LED lights powered by solar power in his home at Patrakaar Colony in Tandalja. Over the last 10 years, he and his activist wife Trupti Shah have installed solar panels of 50 watt power, which run their light bulbs,Compare prices and buy all brands of solar module for home power systems and by the pallet. fans and laptop and charge their phones in their five-room house, which also has an office on the first floor. "Our average electricity bill is of Rs 900 for two months," the couple said.

To install LED lights, both Kirit and Prajapati took the help of Narmada district-based Vishven Soneji, a young environmentalist and entrepreneur who tinkered with a solar lantern repair worker and accessed internet to discover ways of using LED lights as bulbs within the house.