| Beaumont, California enters the third year of a comprehensive street-light upgrade project while Urbandale and Ankeny, Iowa jointly win an EECBG award for SSL street lights.
The city of Beaumont, California began an LED street-light upgrade project in 2008 and hopes to complete the installations in 2011 using fixtures manufactured by the Stresscrete Group. A US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) totaling $290,860 will allow the cities of Urbandale and Ankeny, Iowa to retrofit street lights with solid-state lighting (SSL) with a goal of 40% energy savings.
Beaumont recently posted an article about the LED street-light project on its city web site proclaiming the LED lights as |
