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Good news for the City of Angels, the Clinton Global Initiative has partnered up with the municipal government to roll out the largest LED retrofit program on record. Unfortunately, they’re not handing out the highly efficient, yet expensive bulbs to homeowners. However, all citizens will enjoy some of the benefits. Over the next 5 years, Each of the city’s 140,000 streetlights will be retrofitted with an energy-saving LED bulb designed to reduce “sky glow.”
While I’m stoked about the movement to eradicate light pollution and once again see the stars, the city of Los Angeles has to be excited about saving $48 million over the next 7 years in energy and maintenance costs. The bulbs currently in use need to be replaced once every 4 to 6 years — LEDs are expected to last from 10 to 12. Not only will the city be saving some seriou cash, but they’ll be lowering carbon emissions by 40,500 tons a year, equivalent to taking 6,700 cars off the road for a year. After the city pays off its loan to the Clinton Foundation, its expected to save $10 million each year on its energy bill.
[via Earth2Tech]
LA and the Clinton Foundation Team up for Largest LED Retrofit originally appeared on Green Daily on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:30:00 EST 0. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
