Solar lighting has several advantages over grid-connected streetlights: - Installation is simpler, faster, and more cost-effective as it does not require civil engineering works. - The electricity bill is zero since the solar-powered lights are autonomous and use the solar energy produced by their PV panels. - Solar lighting avoids CO2 emissions and poses no risk of electrical shock like grid-connected systems. Ankara University installed solar streetlights from Fonroche Lighting to illuminate access paths to its cafeteria. The lights provide over a year of autonomy while meeting lighting standards. Installation took just one day, allowing the campus to have lighting from day one while avoiding 0.6 tons of annual

1. Benefits of solar lighting
Solar lighting permits to get public lighting thanks to photovoltaic energy production. This lighting has
several advantages:
- Compared to a streetlight connected to the grid, the installation of a solar streetlight does not
require civil engineering, the installation is therefore much simpler, faster and most of all viable
economically.
- The electricity bill drops to 0€ - System 100% autonomous. The only solar energy produced by
the PV panel is used to power the solar streetlight.
- The installation of ten Fonroche solar streetlights permits to avoid the emission of more than
one ton of CO2 per year.
- Solar lighting poses no risk of electrical shock. The system is working in continuous current
(24VDC TBT), so there is no electrical handling necessary for installation.
- The several components have a long service life, with a first maintenance only after ten years,
with the shift of the battery.
- It is possible to perform all the lighting profiles with a solar streetlight (dimming during the
night, extinction of the streetlight…).
- It is possible to communicate with the solar streetlights in order to know remotely and in real
time their operating state and monitor their impact on the project.
SOLAR LIGHTING
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2. Case study: Ankara University - Turkey
1/ THE NEED
- Lighting of the accesses to the university cafeteria
- Securing of the staff and students’ displacements
- Respect of the EN13201 standard – PRM Standard CE2 Class
20 Lux on average
2/ THE PROBLEM
- Instability of the local power grid
- The immobilization of the area and therefore the works must be limited as much as possible
3/ THE FONROCHE SOLUTION
- Fonroche Lighting has proposed 6 Smartlight Power365 single arm to lit the accesses to the cafeteria.
- The offered product is sized according to values measured by the nearest meteorological stations to
the project, based on the last ten years period. All the calculation is then based on the worst period
measured in order to ensure the operation of the solar streetlight all over the year.
- It took only one day of installation for the University cafeteria to be lit. From the first day, the
streetlights have illuminated the campus.
- The solar streetlights Fonroche Lighting are sized to offer an autonomy of 365 days a year while being
compliant with the EN 13201 lighting standard. The accesses to the university cafeteria are secured
by lighting all along the year and are compliant to the PRM standards (which allows all the students,
including people with reduced mobility to access and move on the campus).
- On the whole project, the installation of the Fonroche Lighting solar streetlights will permit to avoid
the emission of more than 0.6 tons of CO2 per year.
4/ PHOTOMETRIC RESULTS
Fonroche Lighting photometric results for the study of Ankara campus, according to the CE2 lighting class:
Average illuminance Uniformity
23.49 lux 0.53
≥ 20.00 lux ≥ 0.40

3. 5/ REFERENCE PHOTOS