Moving day
is closer and closer. We just found out
our second mortgage servicer has finally accepted the terms of our short
sale. We could be in a new place as
early as this weekend, as late as next weekend.
So you might not see me for a couple days. I won’t be going far, but it takes a while to
move, right? Too bad they can’t make
moving as simple as turning on an LED bulb.
Some cities,
however, are going to great lengths to be more energy efficient when the street
lights come on. Many cities across the
country have installed GE Evolve™ LED Roadway fixtures in an effort to become
more energy-efficient and cost-efficient.
The lights bring up to a 50% reduction in system energy when compared to
standard high-intensity discharge (HID) systems. In a city like Las Vegas, that means 20
million fewer kilowatt hours (kWhs) will be used starting in 2013. For other, smaller cities like Superior,
Nebraska (a town with just 2,000 residents), it of course means less. But the power of LED, whether on a large or
small scale is still a money and energy saver.
At this
year’s LIGHTFAIR International, GE conveyed a panel discussion that explored
how cities across the US are benefitting from LED street lighting. One of the panelists commented that LED is
being rapidly adopted as a lighting system for roadways across the globe – in
small towns and big cities. The U.S.
Department of Energy estimates the installed base of street and highway lights
in the US alone is approximately 52 million.
Currently, just one percent of those street lights are LED.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/energy-efficient-ge-led-street-lighting-works-wonders-for-any-size-city-2012-05-09
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