Niagara Falls plans to begin an LED evaluation project in early 2011 while SSL projects in Palo Alto and Cleveland face roadblocks.
Niagara Falls in Canada is a top North American tourist destination and now the city hopes to make news with a transition to energy-efficient LED-based street lighting. The project is emphasizing the energy savings and perhaps even more so the resulting reduction in carbon emissions. Meanwhile Palo Alto, California and Cleveland, Ohio are seeing different types of roadblocks to solid-state-lighting (SSL) street-light retrofit projects.
Niagara Falls has launched a program called Niagara Luminaire that is shepherding the SSL evaluation. A joint initiative between the region |