New LED Street Lights: Brightening Neighborhoods, at Less Cost

Article originally published by Two-Rivers.org

You may have noticed more of those “pure white” LED street lights appearing around Two Rivers over the past 6 months. LED fixtures have replaced the pinkish-orangish high pressure sodium lighting on several major streets…

Over the next three years, our electric utility expects to re-lamp all of the approximately 1,000 street lights in the community with LED fixtures.  At current electrical rates, the energy savings should amount to about $30,000 per year…