Why Your Site Needs Solar Site Lighting

Date: 24/11/22

There are lots of reasons your site needs lighting, including safety, security, productivity and more. The Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) sets out your legal responsibility to ensure that your site is adequately lit, to protect site workers, visitors and members of the public. And with solar site lighting, you can also protect the environment and your project budget too. Here’s ten good reasons to switch to solar site lighting for your rail or road construction site:

1. Solar site lighting is environmentally friendly - Solar site lighting uses clean, renewable energy from the sun to produce the power needed to light your site. This significantly reduces emissions compared to using traditional diesel generators, cutting CO₂ and other greenhouse gasses, to help you meet the increasingly strict environmental targets for UK construction sites.
2. Solar site lighting is low cost - Solar site lighting, such as the Eco Solar Tower Light, is powered by 100% solar energy, so there’s no fuel costs to light your site. With grid electricity prices rising all the time, and the banning of red diesel pushing up fuel costs, it has never been more important to find affordable alternatives like solar power.
3. Solar site lighting is silent - Road and rail projects often pass close to residential areas, placing restrictions on noise levels, particularly overnight. Yet at the same time, these projects often have very tight timescales, to reduce disruption to transport, resulting in 24hr working. Solar site lighting solves this problem by providing silent power with none of the noise of a diesel generator.
4. Solar site lighting is flexible - With no need for cabling or trenching from the grid, and no requirement for bulky diesel generators, solar site lighting can be set up wherever you need it and moved around quickly and easily as the work progresses. The Eco Solar Tower Light is fully portable, with robust wheels, and can be deployed and erected in just minutes.
5. Solar site lighting is self-contained - Road and rail projects often require working in locations that are far from traditional power supplies, such as the grid. With self-contained units that can work almost anywhere, solar site lighting is the perfect off-grid lighting solution.
6. Solar site lighting is durable - Think Hire solar site lighting is built to last in even the harshest of environments, where traditional power supplies may struggle. This makes it the ideal choice for remote, off grid road and rail projects where conditions are demanding.
7. Solar site lighting is reliable - With no moving parts like a traditional generator, solar site lighting is much more dependable. With no risk of mechanical breakdown halting key works, your project will stay on schedule night and day.
8. Solar site lighting is powerful - The Eco Solar Tower Light can illuminate an area of 2400m2 from its 8m mast, with four fully adjustable LED lighting heads. For more precise lighting, such as road and rail tunnel work, the Solar Compound Light can illuminate 400m2 with an IP65 rating providing shadow free, anti-glare illumination.
9. Solar site lighting works 24/7 - It’s a common misconception that solar site lighting only works on sunny summer days. However, the Eco Solar Tower Light delivers 8 hours of light, 7 days a week throughout the spring, summer and autumn months, and 8 hours of light, 5 days a week even in winter.
10. Solar site lighting is backed by experts - Think Hire have over 60years combined experience in the design, manufacture, hire and sale of innovative products with an environmentally considerate power supply. Our expert team will help you design your solar site lighting and are always on call to help out throughout your hire.

To find out more about solar site lighting for your road or rail project, talk to the Think Hire experts today by calling 0330 133 2222.

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