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Applications > Street Lighting

Street lights are an attractive application for LED lighting today due to several factors:

  • The large number of street lights and the potential to significantly cut energy use and carbon emissions by switching to LED lighting.
  • High maintenance costs due to height and location over public roadways.
  • Growing community pressure to minimize light trespass and light pollution.
  • Desire for enhanced visibility with better color rending.
  • A growing number of quality LED street light vendors.
  • Numerous trials and demonstration sites showing significant energy and maintenance cost savings.
  • LED street lights are now available from a variety of vendors to address the full range of applications, from decorative post tops to high-speed roadway.
  • Long life and high reliability. Quality street lights can last 10-25 years depending on usage and can therefore offer significant reduction in maintenance costs compared with traditional lights sources that require replacement every 2-3 years.
  • High efficiency with the potential to offer 50 to 80 percent energy savings.
    • Whiter light in a range of color temperatures with a higher color rendering index for enhanced visibility.
  • Light from each LED can be guided with secondary optics to provide far more even illumination using lower light levels than traditional lighting sources. Traditional light sources typically over-light the area directly under the pole to ensure that the outer areas surrounding the pole are well lit. LED fixtures are designed to spread the light more evenly, eliminating the need for over-lighting.

 

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"The City of Indian Wells takes being green seriously. We are known worldwide for our extraordinary landscape and pristine environment, and we make stewardship of these resources a top priority. The recessed LED lighting we have installed throughout our municipal buildings cuts our energy consumption for those lights by 80 percent and is targeted to last for 12 to 25 years, significantly reducing the time and money we spend changing and tossing away bulbs.”

-Larry Spicer, Mayor
Indian Wells