The Outdoor Lighting Accelerator worked with dozens of municipalities to accelerate the adoption and use of high efficiency outdoor lighting in the public sector, replacing over 1,500,000 lighting fixtures over a 2 year period.

Across the nation, outdoor lighting helps communities create a safe environment for residents and business owners to live, work, play, and travel. This is a vital public service supported by taxpayer dollars that municipalities and their utilities provide, and there are many solutions that municipalities are adopting for LED conversions.

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.