Piacenza, Lodi and Alessandria are now using iGuzzini's Archilede street lighting solutions and the new technology is said to reduce not only energy costs but significant amounts of CO2 emissions.
It uses highly efficient Golden Dragon Plus LEDs from semiconductor giant OSRAM, which have a light output of 1001 m/W.
As a result of the installation, stray light is all but eliminated and light pollution is reduced.
They are the latest European destinations to switch to the more efficient technology and the port of Valencia has already installed 3,000 street lights with LED bulbs.
Similarly, Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain is looking to have more than 20,000 street lights changed, doing away with older energy-sapping bulbs.
Indeed, recent studies by two academics institutions in Valencia found that LED bulbs would run three times longer than conventional roadside illumination.
