Outdoor Lighting - Completed
Outdoor Lighting - Completed
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Cities participating in the Outdoor Lighting Accelerator demonstrated practical and effective best practices to accelerate the adoption of high-efficiency outdoor lighting and improve system-wide replacement processes at the municipal level. Cities worked together and with DOE to drive analysis, secure funding, and install outdoor lighting systems. Partners developed best practice approaches to system-wide upgrades as well as addressed issues that limit investment in high-efficiency technologies such as financing and utility tariff-rates. |
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The Better Buildings Outdoor Lighting Accelerator (OLA) worked with leaders from states, cities, and regional energy networks to accelerate the deployment of high performance street and area lighting in the public sector. In the 2.5-year program, over 1.3 million lights were replaced. |
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This tool provides an interactive and visual representation of possible approaches and decisions that will typically be encountered in upgrading/replacing a public outdoor lighting system. |
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Cost Savings Analysis of LED Street Lighting Ownership Solutions at a Glance This tool helps municipalities determine if an LED conversion is feasible. It identifies the advantages (and/or disadvantages) of changing street light ownership structure by estimating the cost over time for purchasing a utility-owned street lighting system and converting it to LED energy-efficient lighting.
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Solid-State Lighting: True Colors Fact Sheet This document addresses some of the common concerns about the spectral emissions of LEDs, using an example dataset of 20 CALiPER-tested products that represent the full range of what is commonly available.
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Other Resources
Fact Sheet
Report
Additional Information
Financing Guidance for LED Street Lighting Programs
The purpose of this page is to offer a brief introduction to the various financing models and tools that are becoming available, to present case studies of municipalities that have used those tools, and to provide links to resources that offer additional information.
DOE Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC)
Solid-state lighting (SSL) technology has the potential to reduce U.S. lighting energy usage by nearly one half and contribute significantly to our nation's climate change solutions.
Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking (LEEP)
The LEEP Campaign is a recognition and guidance program enabling facility owners and managers to take advantage of savings opportunities from high-efficiency lighting solutions in their parking facilities.
Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds (QECBs)
A Qualified Energy Conservation Bond (QECB) is a bond that enables qualified state, tribal, and local government issuers to borrow money at attractive rates to fund energy conservation projects (it is important to note that QECBs are not grants). A QECB is among the lowest-cost public financing tools because the U.S. Department of the Treasury subsidizes the issuer's borrowing costs.
LED Technology and the Environment
- DOE Solid State Lighting Fact Sheet
- DOE SSL Program’s response to AMA guidance
- The Light Post
Helpful guidance for those in the lighting community who are in the midst of planning streetlight conversion projects or find themselves fielding questions related to the AMA guidance.
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A-Z
Albany, NY | Anchorage, AK | |
California Street Light Association | Dearborn, MI | |
Deerfield Beach, FL | Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission | Detroit, MI |
Flint, MI | Garfield Clean Energy Collaborative | Huntington Beach, CA |
Little Rock, AR | Mid-America Regional Council | |
Portland, ME | Racine, WI | |
Southeast Michigan Regional Energy Office | Southern California Regional Energy Network | St Petersburg, FL |
State of Tennessee | State of Washington | |
Takoma Park, MD |
Location
Alaska
Anchorage, AK |
Arkansas
Little Rock, AR |
California
California Street Light Association | Huntington Beach, CA | |
Southern California Regional Energy Network |
Colorado
Garfield Clean Energy Collaborative |
Florida
Deerfield Beach, FL | St Petersburg, FL | |
Illinois
Kansas
Mid-America Regional Council |
Maine
Portland, ME |
Maryland
Takoma Park, MD |
Michigan
Dearborn, MI | Detroit, MI | Flint, MI |
Southeast Michigan Regional Energy Office |
New York
Albany, NY |
Pennsylvania
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission |
Rhode Island
Tennessee
State of Tennessee |
Washington
State of Washington |
Wisconsin
Racine, WI |