Huntington Beach officials this week announced that the city has joined the Cree LED City® initiative -- an international program promoting the deployment of energy-efficient light-emitting diode lighting.
The city completed a pilot LED lighting study in the 100-year-old Main Street area near the beach town's pier.
Kim Lighting Archetype LED streetlights are being installed in a bluff-top beach area parking lot and BetaLED LEDway® streetlights have been installed in the downtown taxi loading zone to improve the quality of lighting in both areas.
In the parking lot, the 140-Watt LED lamps and ballasts replace high-pressure sodium fixtures that consumed 295 Watts from dusk to dawn. The LED lights feature wireless controls, providing varying illumination output capabilities and allowing the city to consume more than 60 percent less energy.
The retrofitting lighting in a taxi loading area features three BetaLED LEDway streetlights should result in an anticipated 32 percent reduction in energy consumption.
"We initially looked to LED lighting to improve the quality of light in these high traffic areas, yet the reduction in maintenance costs coupled with longer service life and potential for field controllable dimming are benefits that can't be ignored," said Aaron Klemm, Huntington Beach city energy project manager. "The success of these initial installations will help us to adopt LED technology for streets, walkways, parks and buildings across the city in our efforts to become a more energy efficient, sustainable community."
The pilot installation was made possible by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Huntington Beach officials anticipate additional projects featuring LED lighting, including retrofitting its primary downtown blogs with decorative Acorn Globe-style from Sternberg Lighting that feature wireless controls. The controls will allow the city staff to create three types of light levels to suit the appropriate need. The city also plans to replace area lighting in its parks with BetaLED bi-level fixtures to help alleviate the parks' high electrical costs.
The LED City initiative is an expanding community of government and industry parties working to evaluate, deploy and promote LED lighting technology across the full range of municipal infrastructure to save energy, protect the environment, trim maintenance costs and provide better light quality for improved visibility and safety.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 22 percent of electricity used in the U.S. powers lighting.
Participants include Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Austin, and Fairview Texas; Anchorage and Valdez, Ala.; Tianjian and Huizhou, China; Bremen, Germany; Torraca and Apecchio, Italy; Toronto and Welland, Ontario; Indian Wells, Calif.; Gwangju, South Korea; Danville, Va.; and Boston, Mass.
LED City is a registered trademark of Cree, Inc.
The city completed a pilot LED lighting study in the 100-year-old Main Street area near the beach town's pier.
Kim Lighting Archetype LED streetlights are being installed in a bluff-top beach area parking lot and BetaLED LEDway® streetlights have been installed in the downtown taxi loading zone to improve the quality of lighting in both areas.
In the parking lot, the 140-Watt LED lamps and ballasts replace high-pressure sodium fixtures that consumed 295 Watts from dusk to dawn. The LED lights feature wireless controls, providing varying illumination output capabilities and allowing the city to consume more than 60 percent less energy.
The retrofitting lighting in a taxi loading area features three BetaLED LEDway streetlights should result in an anticipated 32 percent reduction in energy consumption.
"We initially looked to LED lighting to improve the quality of light in these high traffic areas, yet the reduction in maintenance costs coupled with longer service life and potential for field controllable dimming are benefits that can't be ignored," said Aaron Klemm, Huntington Beach city energy project manager. "The success of these initial installations will help us to adopt LED technology for streets, walkways, parks and buildings across the city in our efforts to become a more energy efficient, sustainable community."
The pilot installation was made possible by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program, part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Huntington Beach officials anticipate additional projects featuring LED lighting, including retrofitting its primary downtown blogs with decorative Acorn Globe-style from Sternberg Lighting that feature wireless controls. The controls will allow the city staff to create three types of light levels to suit the appropriate need. The city also plans to replace area lighting in its parks with BetaLED bi-level fixtures to help alleviate the parks' high electrical costs.
The LED City initiative is an expanding community of government and industry parties working to evaluate, deploy and promote LED lighting technology across the full range of municipal infrastructure to save energy, protect the environment, trim maintenance costs and provide better light quality for improved visibility and safety.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, 22 percent of electricity used in the U.S. powers lighting.
Participants include Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Austin, and Fairview Texas; Anchorage and Valdez, Ala.; Tianjian and Huizhou, China; Bremen, Germany; Torraca and Apecchio, Italy; Toronto and Welland, Ontario; Indian Wells, Calif.; Gwangju, South Korea; Danville, Va.; and Boston, Mass.
LED City is a registered trademark of Cree, Inc.
Joe Segura, a mild-mannered reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper, has covered Gotham City, er Long Beach, for 34 years. During his very, very long -- endless -- tenure, he's covered almost every beat, and he was the main writer for BeachWeek, which focused on life and lifestyles of the shoreline communities from downtown Long Beach to the Huntington Beach pier.
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