{"id":77718,"date":"2018-03-28T07:59:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T07:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/led-lights-for-kabul-to-save-electricity\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:38:47","slug":"led-lights-for-kabul-to-save-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/led-lights-for-kabul-to-save-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"LED lights for Kabul to save electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/3- Mar\/28\/\u0686\u0631\u0627\u063a 3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): In a bid to save electricity consumption, the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) on Wednesday inked deal worth $ 5 million to promote use of LED lights.<\/p>\n<p>The MoEW inked deal with the Conrexx Technology BV &ndash; RITEK Europe for installing LED lights on streets in Kabul as well as in public sector offices. The funds for the project would be provided from the Ministry&rsquo;s development budget.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Ahmad Usmani, Minister for the MoEW, said on the occasion this project would cost $ 4.8 million, and would be completed in 24 weeks. He also urged citizens to use LED bulbs to save electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Samat Bayat, head of the Conrexx Technology BV &ndash; RITEK Europe, promised to complete the project in time. He hailed this as a pioneering project in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 273,000 new LED bulbs are going to be installed in line with this project.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): In a bid to save electricity consumption, the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) on Wednesday inked deal worth $ 5 million to promote use of LED lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}