Lighting is a delight at bowls centre
Carmarthen indoor bowlers are enjoying new brighter lighting – while the Bowls Centre is looking forward to lighter fuel bills. Carmarthenshire County Council has undertaken a £49,500 project to replace the lights at Carmarthen Indoor Bowls Centre with new energy saving lighting. The scheme is one of scores of projects designed to reduce the authority’s energy bills and help tackle global warming. The bowling centre’s lighting scheme will save over £6,200 a year, enabling it to pay for itself in under eight years. It will also reduce the CO2 emissions associated with the operation of the centre by 37 tonnes a year. Corporate Energy Officer Neil Evans said: “T5 light fittings generally have a serviceable life of 20 years and at current electricity prices lifetime financial savings are projected to be £125, 000. However as electricity is still largely generated by burning fossil fuels and those fuels are becoming scarcer the cost of that electricity is almost certain to rise. In addition...