A city in the United States to join the latest Cree LED city plan

ChapEL City, North Carolina, Hill has announced plans to join the CREE LED city (Cree LED City) program, which is an international project to promote and deploy energy-efficient LED lighting. LED street has been installed along the Franklin Street (Franklin Street) 100 Chapel street, and the street is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the city of.

Chapel Hill City replaced by 10 LED high pressure sodium lamps to assess the quality of LED street lighting. LED street lamps can reduce energy consumption by as much as 50%. During the 12 months of the pilot project, the city will seek feedback from residents on the quality of LED street lighting.

Chapel Hill city is committed to the development of more environmentally friendly cities, the use of energy-saving LED street lighting is only one part of its implementation process. The city has developed a challenging goal, which will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 60% by 2050. In order to achieve this goal, Chapel Hill city will adopt a comprehensive plan, including policy driven, development projects, transportation and environmental protection, etc.. This year the city will deal with the number of new public transport passengers, and an increase of 11 new hybrid electric buses, a part of the plan for the greening of municipal vehicles. Other sustainable work, that is, all emerging towns use sustainable project planning and construction facilities, also in line with the U.S. energy and environmental design standards (LEED) of the silver class (Silver) certification standards.

Chapel Hill, added to a diversified, continuous development of the LED city plan, to carry out assessment and deployment of LED lighting, others join the city also including: Rowley of the state of North Carolina (Raleigh, N.C.), Alaska California Anchorage (Anchorage), Austen Texas (Austin), Indian Welles in California in the United States (Indian, Wells, Calif., Canada) Ontario Lake Welland (Welland, Ontario), Tianjin Chinese (Tianjin, China) and Canada Toronto (Toronto). (http://www.ledsmagazine.com/products/18477)