Tallinn: No More Blanket Streetlight Blackouts
In the spring of last year, Tallinn experimented by turning streetlights out all over the city to save power, but those days are now over, city officials say.
Tallinn public utilities office head Ain Valdmann said that the city will now use other tactics. "We have thinned lights along major thoroughfares and based on our population's interests we have tried not to turn off any lights on smaller or narrower streets, tree-lined streets or where there are parks. The same goes for inner city blocks," Valdmann told ETV.
Tallinn has 52,400 streetlights and about 5,000 - along major arteries - have been permanently switched off. Lighting was in the same mode last year and the city says it resulted in the necessary savings.