$10 million project for Phnom Penh streetlights
Phnom Penh municipality has plan over the next four years to implement project worth US$10 million in order to illuminate the city’s main monuments and the line more than 500 km of the capital’s boulevards and streets with streetlights in an attempt to attract tourists.
The French lighting company, Citelum, created master plan and has cooperation with the municipality. The project was announced in December 2007 in partnership with the French government and AFD, the French cooperation agency, funded the initial research.
Lights will be installed along all of Phnom Penh streets, and the major monuments such as the Independence Monument, the Royal Palace, Wat Phnom, historic and heritage buildings.
According the Municipality governor, the lighting project will begin to be implemented in 2009, if the money is injected soon. Adding that the plan will be late if the donors are slow in financing.
At the present time, streetlights are lit along the Phnom Penh and the usage of 250-watt light bulbs will be replaced with 143-watt lighting in order to reduce the current energy consumption on those streets by about 35 percent.