Fonroche Lighting is committed to a sustainable approach to its products. This includes a full life cycle assessment of our Smartlight solar street light range, evaluating the environmental impacts of its materials, production and use in an environmentally friendly manner.
Our sustainability goals
Our solar street lights offer performance, energy efficiency and economy while meeting several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Fonroche Lighting pays particular attention to the lifespan of its products. Solar street lamps are eco-designed to encourage the recycling of their components.
Given the complexity of recycling photovoltaic panels and batteries, Fonroche Lighting works with specialized French partners to ensure optimal recycling of these components. This enables us to guarantee a recycling rate for our products approaching 100%.
At Fonroche Lighting we use our innovation capacity to find solutions that motivate us to reduce environmental impacts.
For example, to ensure the power and autonomy of our products, we have developed our own storage and intelligent management system. Our Power365 technology works with NiMH batteries, which can be recycled by pyrometallurgy and/or hydrometallurgy.
The metal recovery rate is 84% and about 70% of the nickel is used as an alloy in steel production and only 3% is used in battery production.
99% recyclability rate
Up to 12 years service life
We have identified that the maioirty of greenhouse gas emissions are due to the manufacturing phase, especially for the battery and the photovoltaic panel.
The street light’s contribution to CO2 emissions is 17.78gCO2 eq./ kWh.
In 2020, the CO2 emissions per kWh produced in France were 40.54g CO2 eq./kWh.
This shows a 56% reduction in emissions for a solar street light compared to a grid-connected street light, regardless of the manufacturing stage.
Recyclability of solar street lights
We pay particular attention to the life cycle of our products. The solar street lights are environmentally designed to encourage the components to be recycled.
Fonroche Lighting is a member of several environmental organisations for the recovery of its components at the end of their life: Soren & Ecosystem
