Street Lights

Brunei's street lights (pre-Amedeo 1998 crisis) were very good and bright, however 8 years on, the maintenance of these lights aren't.

There are some sections of the main road (such as the road towards Gadong as well as government building at Jalan Airport Lama, then at Jalan Muara) where the street lights area sometimes switched off. Whose responsible for replacing the light bulbs or even switching on the street lights?

Yes, it is expensive to swtich on these street lights at night (it runs up to 12 hours per day, hence costs $ few hundred thousand dollars per month maybe), but what is the alternative?

Wind, wave, nuclear or solar energy? Many have said that solar energy is expensive to install but in the long run, since Brunei is in the tropic where the sun is hot all year round, the possibility is always there for this technology can be imported or made locally? Didnt Australia recently built the world's largest solar energy panels in its desert that could tap millions of watts of electricity?

Oil is not going to lasts forever, so alternative solution is important for sustainable development. Otherwise, in future, we have only nice streetlights with no lights on....