PUBLISHED
November 05, 2012
The City of Sydney announced a plan to deploy LED lighting across the city center, halving the electricity use and carbon pollution of its street and park lights. The highly efficient, low-carbon lights will cost $7 million and be rolled out over the course of three years, starting with the Bicentennial Park in Glebe. Since public lighting accounts for a third of the city’s annual electricity use and 30 percent of its carbon pollution, the project stands to realize enormous environmental benefits.
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PUBLISHED
August 02, 2012
Challenging economics have been a barrier to implementing street lighting retrofit projects in the UK to date. A new project in the city of Salford, England, however, could be a breakthrough, making large-scale efforts to save outdoor lighting energy and costs viable in C40 Cities such as London.
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PUBLISHED
March 02, 2012
US Department of Energy (DOE) Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium has released a Retrofit Financial Analysis Tool developed with the C40 Outdoor Lighting Program, in partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative.
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PUBLISHED
August 11, 2011
It has been two years since the city of Los Angeles launched a major public works project to retrofit the city’s street lighting with energy-efficient LED (light emitting diode) fixtures, marking a good opportunity to assess progress. The project is still the largest LED street lighting retrofit ever undertaken globally; its implementation is ahead of schedule and the energy cost savings are surpassing original projections, largely due to continued improvements in the energy efficiency of LED technology.
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PUBLISHED
August 02, 2011
The director of our Outdoor Lighting program talks about why retrofitting street lighting is a brilliant opportunity for C40 Cities to cut costs and emissions.
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