So you want to cut down a bunch of trees but it's really slow cutting them down one at a time. Keep that initial slowness but cut down the tedium if a player has to harvest multiple trees. Implement a stacking and refreshing buff (5 minutes or so) that increases the speed you cut down trees each ...

TL;DR
Ability to power lamps via copper wire.


Try this one:
:arrow: WiredLamps_1.0.0.zip


Cool, that's almost what I meant. But could you fix those please, then I would totally use this:

Lamps won't wire if inside of poles range.
Lamps can't be connected to each other.
Lamps can't ...

Does the proposed include the auto-wiring that all power distribution items have?


probably not since it would harm the default powering method. I see it as a neat semi-secret feature kinda like you can manually cut and place wires on poles by clicking with wire on them.
when i first time found ...

firstly, lamps are special in the way they are handled by the electric network to account for their rolling start and shutdown each night. So this might not behave like you'd intent right off the bat.


I'm not sure how factorio manages entity power states, but probably via an variable like ...

TL;DR
Ability to power lamps via copper wire.

What ?
Simply this.
https://i.postimg.cc/t4SHVvXZ/fact-lamp.png
Make possible to connect a single lamp to the pole via copper wire as alternative to placing it inside its supply area, but limiting to the wire reach of the pole you're connecting to ...