The public lighting market - Germany

The street lighting market refers to all activities related to the energy sector that require the provision of a public lighting service (mainly street lighting) that all municipal authorities must provide in the areas they administer for their citizens.s must provide in the areas they administer for their citizens - for its part, public lighting is defined as all the equipment, items and devices (lamp posts, lamps, lighting towers, illumination, etc.) that make up and function together to provide a public lighting service.) that make up and function together to provide lighting in public places. In response to the energy-saving recommendations of the Länder governments, municipalities have embarked on major renovations of their urban lighting systems.schnaittach, for example, has decided to replace the bulbs in its street lamps with more efficient LED lights. Finally, this aging lighting system, some of which is more than 25 years old, has been replaced by more efficient LEDs the OECD estimates that there are some 9 million of them in Germany - is benefiting from new technologies and substantial public investment, making the German street lighting market a high-potential one for equipment manufacturers and network operators.