Carbon Footprint

The 'Lights'  are never going to be the most energy efficient that they would like to be, due to financial constraints, but they do try their best to protect the environment. They recycle whatever materials they can, they try to use energy tariffs that comprise of a 'Green energy' element and they use materials such as wood from sustainable forests or metal from recycle suppliers.

Their policy is to use as little as possible of whatever they can and try to make it go as far as possible!

Whilst the lights are on, they recommend that visitors travel to Mousehole via public transport to minimise the carbon footprint generated by cars. Their own transport used for erecting the lights is a low speed electric trolley and we also use a 'Handcart' which is older than the lights themselves!

They have reduced the length of time the lights are on and try to switch them on for testing as little as possible.

Where possible they try to use low energy lamps and where that is not possible, they use the lowest wattage lamps they can or try to convert to low voltage as this uses considerably less energy. The Celtic Cross on the Island is powered by batteries charged by solar photovoltaic cells. They also have plans for a water wheel for the future!

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2013 saw the conversion of the cracker to a new Low Voltage LED lighting system. The prime power consumption has dropped from nearly 2KW to less than 100W - a saving of over 95%.They would like to continue to upgrade the set pieces, but the cost of doing so is enormous, each LED costs nearly £5 each and takes hours of work to complete an upgrade.
 
See the light? Any energy saving tips - then please send them on!