Amplex and Boeing offer intelligent streetlight management systems to US cities

The Boeing Company has announced a teaming agreement with Danish clean-technology company, Amplex, to offer an intelligent streetlight management system that could decrease energy consumption in major USA cities by 25% to 35%, significantly reducing their carbon footprint. By combining Amplex’s AmpLight system – which already operates several million streetlights throughout the world – with Boeing Energy Solutions’ expertise in sales, contracting, program management, implementation, service and support, the two companies can offer tailored energy savings solutions to US cities.

The AmpLight system includes central control, monitoring, an energy-savings mode, remote and power-quality metering, voltage stabilization and wireless communications/IT systems. In addition to reducing energy consumption and costs, AmpLight also reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Amplex estimates that if the 10-largest metropolitan areas in the USA switched to the AmpLight system, greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by nearly 600,000 metric tons – the equivalent of removing more than 200,000 cars from the road every year.

Boeing Energy Solutions, part of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, is focused on addressing emerging energy markets, including smart grid solutions, energy assurance and renewable energy solutions. The company offers innovative systems to improve reliability, increase efficiency and enhance security of energy resources used by the US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, state and local governments, utilities, and international customers.

“Streetlights are responsible for up to 40% of a municipality’s electricity budget and consume between 2% and 4% of the total electricity produced in the USA,” Amplex chairman, Jens Hørup Jensen, says. “Boeing Northern Europe president, Jan Närlinge, adds, “This is an opportunity for Boeing and Amplex to offer a power and cost savings solution that can benefit every major city in the USA.”

18 December 2009