The small town of Dezhou will transform the street lights and replace it with LED.

According to Times Record News, the Witchita Falls city of Texas, USA, plans to transform the LED street light, which began 10 years ago. The City Council approved the $2 million 800 thousand project. At present, at least 2490 road lighting facilities have been switched to LED. The city plans to upgrade the remaining 5727 high-pressure sodium lamps, metal halide lamps and mercury vapor lamps to LED.

Ameresco is a company that has been working in the city. It estimates that the new lights can save about 2 million 800 thousand kilowatt hours of electricity per annum. In addition, Eaton Corp lighting branch Cooper lighting provides 10 years warranty, which is expected to save maintenance costs. Ameresco and the city estimated that the project could be completed within four to five months.

Cooper Lighting estimated the life expectancy of LED street lamps according to the current utilization rate, about 20 years. Overall, the city expects that the project will eventually recover costs through savings. The savings will be used for future upgrading. (Editor: LED net James)

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