Everyday morning I start from home to catch a bus for Nehru Place. By 9 am I reach at the bus stop and wait there for sometime until I get the route 764 bus.

I always found the street lamps glowing bright as if competing with the Sun. For few days I thought, may be by mistake the person, whoever operates these street lights has forgot to switch off them. But now this is an everyday story.

(Lamps at 10:30 am on a Sunday Morning)

Do we ever bother about this fact. How much electricity we are wasting! We are always in hurry and don’t have time to look around. Does other people at the bus stop ever marked the lighted street lamps! If the street lamps are on for around 2/3 extra hours then how much electricity we are wasting everyday!

We want our country to grow without realizing self responsibility.

We face regular power cuts in summer. We realize it when we can’t switch on our A.C.s and can’t watch our favorite cricket match. Many of us think that we(India) are unable to produce enough electricity to meet the need of our population. If that’s true then how can we waste that?

If we will plant a photosensitive electrical controller to operate these street light then that will solve this problem. The machine will automatically switch On/Off according to the intensity of ambient light as sensed by a photo sensor or simply say, depending on availability of Sunlight. If we have a rainy day our street lamps will automatically glow for us. Isn’t it great? It will change it’s timings depending on the sunrise and sunset time throughout the season.

Anyway, it’s not so difficult to have these systems if we really want to! Even I have heard about Solar Street Lights being used in many countries.

Here are few articles you may like to look at

Solar Photovoltaics in India

Solar Street Lights in India