Lyon, France to promote green lighting"

CCTV.com news (Midnight News): at the beginning of December each year, the southern French city of Lyon will usher in once a year "festival of lights", the combination of the local cultural tradition and the latest lighting technology festival will attract millions of visitors each year.

Lights Festival originated in 1852, was originally a religious holiday of thanksgiving. During the festival, people will light candles in their own windows or doors, with the development of the times, the candle was replaced by light.

Annual festival of lights for a period of 4 days, under the lights, hundreds of important local city landscape including ancient bridges, churches, theaters and so will become Ambilight, there are also some specially designed by the 3D lighting lighting division, let the whole city shine.

In recent ten years, Lyon began to implement the new "green lighting" planning, for example, over the past ten years, the city of Lyon public lighting lamp number from the original 58 thousand increased to 65 thousand, but because of the original 40 Watt light bulbs are replaced with energy-saving light bulbs of 7 watts, so each year power consumption can be reduced by 1/6.