New Brunswick Power will install 72,000 LED streetlights

New Brunswick Power Distribution (NB Power), a Canadian power distribution company, is in the process of qualifying suppliers of LED streetlight luminaires. The goal of NB Power is to replace approximately 72,000 existing high pressure sodium (HPS) streetlights with LED luminaires over a period of five years.


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Sausalito, California, plans to install 276 new LED streetlights

Using general capital project funds of $118,820, the city council of Sausalito, California, has authorized the department of public works to begin planning and implementing the city’s first major LED streetlight installation. City officials determined that using capital funds would help the city realize immediate savings from energy use reduction. According to the department of public works, the city will replace approximately 276 existing high pressure sodium (HPS) and mercury vapor streetlights with LED streetlight fixtures manufactured by Leotek Electronics of Milpitas, California.  In addition to the HPS and mercury vapor streetlights, the city also owns about 190 incandescent streetlights which are also targeted for future replacement.


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Petaluma, California, plans to install 130 LED streetlights

The city council of Petaluma, California, recently granted final approval to a planned LED streetlight replacement project.

Petaluma plans to replace approximately 130 streetlights. The project will be funded by a grant from the US Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program and is valued at $115,954. Although the city has not actively tested LED streetlight technology in pilots, recently amended city code requires new planned developments to install the energy efficient roadway fixtures.

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Nova Scotia Power seeks to identify interested vendors for LED streetlight project involving 25,000 fixtures

Nova Scotia Power, Inc. (NSPI), an electric utility providing power to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, is in the process of evaluating suppliers of LED streetlights for a planned installation. Recent legislation stipulates that all of the province’s existing roadway streetlights be converted to LED streetlights with the implementation period for the streetlight conversion to take place over a five year period. Nova Scotia Power owns and maintains about 120,000 streetlights throughout the province.


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Lompoc, California, city council approves rate for LED streetlights

The city council of Lompoc, California, has adopted a new electric utility rate schedule for the city’s LED streetlights following staff recommendations to make a rate change.

Previously, the city of Lompoc only had had rates reflecting the use of high pressure sodium (HPS) fixtures. The new rate schedule reflects the lower energy consumption of LED streetlights and provides a competitive rate structure for the energy efficient fixtures.

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Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities plans to issue an RFP for its member communities

Funded by grant awards from the US Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program, communities throughout the state of Iowa are beginning the conversion of existing streetlights to the energy efficient solid state technology of LEDs. Iowa communities received grants of $1.8 million which were to be used to implement energy efficient streetlighting. These federal grants are locally administered by Iowa Office of Energy Independence.  The majority of grant recipients are communities which are also municipal utilities. These municipal utilities are represented by the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities (IAMU).


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Asheville, North Carolina, seeks bids for 2,913 LED streetlights

The city of Asheville, North Carolina has re-issued a Request for Formal Bids and Proposals for the purchase of 2,793 new LED streetlights. The LED streetlights are part of a larger city-wide initiative to increase energy efficiency and reduce the city of Asheville’s carbon footprint. Long-term goals include replacement of all of the city’s 8,300 existing high pressure sodium (HPS) and mercury vapor streetlights.


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Hendersonville, North Carolina, issues RFP for 32 LED streetlights

As part of a “Main Street Initiative,” the city of Hendersonville, North Carolina, has received funding to replace existing streetlights with LED streetlight fixtures. The initiative is funded by a $52,200 grant from the US Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program. The state program is locally administered by the North Carolina Energy Program. The project includes the purchase of thirty-two LED streetlight fixtures.


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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, seeks to pre-qualify LED streetlights for upcoming retrofit

Based on a recommendation from the city’s Environmental Advisory Committee, the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, is actively pursuing a city-wide retrofit of all existing high pressure sodium (HPS) streetlights. The retrofit to LED technology will also include a streetlight monitoring system. According to a statement by Mississauga’s streetlighting coordinator, Eric Menezes, a city-wide retrofit will take approximately seven years and will result in energy and maintenance savings of about C$50 million.

The city is in the process of pre-qualifying LED streetlight fixtures through a Request for Pre-Qualification (RFPQ) procurement. The procurement seeks to pre-qualify selected manufacturers products based on general criteria.

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Melrose, Massachusetts, installs Osram Sylvania LED streetlights to meet city’s energy savings goals

A pilot effort focused on the installation of LED streetlights is now underway in the city of Melrose, Massachusetts. The the state of Massachusetts Green Community Program mandates that the city reduce energy consumption by 20 percent within the next five years. City officials feel that deployment of LED streetlights is one of the best methods to achieve that goal. The city will install approximately 80 new decorative LED streetlights on downtown Main Street. The LED streetlight fixtures are manufactured by Osram Sylvania of Danvers, Massachusetts, and will replace existing metal halide fixtures.

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Greenville, South Carolina, to test LED streetlights from Hubbell Lighting and GE

The city of Greenville, South Carolina, has launched the state’s first energy efficient LED streetlight program. Greenville, in cooperation with GE Lighting, Hubbell Lighting, and Duke Energy, has installed four different styles of pedestrian fixtures on one city block and is in the process of installing cobrahead style fixtures. The pedestrian fixtures were supplied by Hubbell Lighting of Greenville, South Carolina, and the cobrahead fixtures will be provided by GE Lighting, which is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and operates a facility in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Santa Monica, California, seeks new bids for 500 LED streetlight project

The city of Santa Monica, California, has chosen to re-issue bid documents for its upcoming LED streetlight installation. The approximately 500 LED streetlight project is funded by a $668,000 grant from the US Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program. The grant is locally administered by the California Energy Commission (CEC).

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Island of Hawai’i to install 1,000 LED streetlights and investigates use of smart controls

The city council of the island of Hawai’i has passed an ordinance that permits the installation of LED streetlighting in signalized intersections and crosswalks on city and county roadways. The first phase project involves the installation of approximately 1,000 new LED fixtures, approximately 200 more fixtures than the original conversion plans for 800 streetlights.

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Winfield, Kansas, plans for city-wide LED streetlight project by testing fixtures from Cooper Lighting

As an initial step toward the long-term goal of replacing all of the city’s high pressure sodium (HPS) streetlights with energy efficient LED fixtures, the city of Winfield, Kansas, recently installed twelve new LED streetlights.

Winfield is testing energy efficient LED fixtures manufactured by Cooper Lighting of Peachtree City, Georgia. The recent installation on the downtown block of Main Street is part of the city’s ongoing initiative to reduce energy consumption and increase energy cost savings. City crews replaced existing 400 watt HPS streetlights with 127 watt equivalent LED cobrahead fixtures.

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Oakley, California, awards LED streetlight project to Pacific Gas and Electric

The city of Oakley, California, recently awarded an LED streetlight project to Pacific Gas and Electric. The initiative is funded by an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG).

Following guidelines issued by the California Energy Commission (CEC), city officials determined that the project required a competitive bid, and as a result, the project was awarded to the low bidder, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E). A total of five bids were submitted for the $168,314 project.

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, issues RFP for 3,100 LED streetlights

After two years of studies and discussions with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the purchase of approximately 3,100 LED streetlights.

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Seattle, Washington, seeks LED streetlight vendor and issues Invitation to Bid

The city of Seattle, Washington, seeks a vendor for 70 watt LED streetlight fixtures and has issued an Invitation to Bid for the city’s upcoming streetlight installation project.

The city has previously indicated that it plans to deploy up to 10,000 LED fixtures. In early 2011, the city pre-qualified LED fixtures after a formal submission and review process managed by Seattle City Light, the city’s municipal utility.

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Newport Beach, California, prepares for second LED streetlight installation

The city of Newport Beach, California, recently completed the first phase of a large-scale LED streetlight installation and is preparing to begin the second phase of the program. The initiative’s first phase included installation of approximately two hundred new LED streetlight fixtures on city streets and the Balboa and Newport Piers. Application specific LED fixtures, including those manufactured by Philips and GE, were installed in the different areas. In residential neighborhoods, the city chose to install decorative post top and cobrahead fixtures, whereas shoebox style LED fixtures were chosen for the two piers. All LED streetlight fixtures replaced existing incandescent and high pressure sodium (HPS) streetlights.

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Alberta, Canada, municipalities to install over 300 LED streetlight fixtures from BetaLED

Communities in the Canadian province of Alberta will be lit with LED streetlights as a result of a partnership of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association (AUMA) and energy provider FortisAlberta. The towns of Stony Plain, Innisfail and Okotoks will receive a distribution of approximately 300 LED streetlights which will be installed as replacements for existing high pressure sodium (HPS) streetlight fixtures. The LED fixtures chosen for the installation are manufactured by BetaLED, a division of Ruud Lighting, of Racine, Wisconsin, and funding for the project comes directly from FortisAlberta.

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San Carlos, California, to install LED streetlights from BetaLED in $124,092 initiative

The city council of San Carlos, California, recently approved the installation of the city’s first major installation of LED streetlights. The initiative is funded by an award from the US Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program and is included in the capital project budget. The federal award was $124,092 and is locally administered by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The project will retrofit 192 existing high pressure sodium (HPS) streetlights with LED fixtures manufactured by BetaLED, a division of Ruud Lighting, of Racine, Wisconsin.

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