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A Municipal Guide For Converting To LED Street Lighting

This document provides a step-by-step guide for municipalities to convert their street lighting to more energy efficient LED lights. It introduces LED technology and the energy and cost savings it provides over traditional lighting. The guide aims to simplify technical lighting concepts and be practical for those without a formal lighting background. It notes that while control systems offer further savings, standards have not been established and costs are high, so they are not included here. However, luminaires with upgradeable power doors are recommended to allow easy future control integration once issues are resolved.

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A Municipal Guide For Converting To LED Street Lighting

This document provides a step-by-step guide for municipalities to convert their street lighting to more energy efficient LED lights. It introduces LED technology and the energy and cost savings it provides over traditional lighting. The guide aims to simplify technical lighting concepts and be practical for those without a formal lighting background. It notes that while control systems offer further savings, standards have not been established and costs are high, so they are not included here. However, luminaires with upgradeable power doors are recommended to allow easy future control integration once issues are resolved.

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A Municipal Guide for Converting to

LED Street Lighting

A Step-by-Step Approach to Improving Outdoor Lighting,


Saving Energy and Reducing Maintenance Costs.
Algona, Iowa

Before: 250W HPS (295 System Watts)

After: 104W and 176W LED

Introduction
Driven by the promise of significant energy and maintenance savings provided by Light
Emitting Diode (LED) technology, many cities are struggling with effectively implementing
LEDs in their street lighting. There still remains much confusion and misinformation pertaining
to this technology. Furthermore much of the available literature is written in highly scientific
jargon targeting an academic audience.
This document is intended as a practical, user friendly, step-by-step guide for individuals
responsible for municipal street lighting who may lack a formal lighting background. Thus, the
use of lighting jargon in this guide has been minimized.

Note on controls/monitoring systems.


While the potential exists for additional energy savings from the control systems offered by
several manufacturers, there is currently no industry standard communication protocol for
these systems. Consequently the street lighting control systems on the market today are
proprietary and most municipalities have been reluctant to risk standardizing on any of these
systems. Also, these systems currently add an additional level of complexity and cost to the
street lighting system. Because of these critical issues, we have not yet seen widespread
adoption of these systems in the market and therefore controls/monitoring systems are not
included in this guide.
It should be noted, however, that many luminaire manufacturers do offer replaceable power
doors on their street lights which offer the potential for easy replacement in the future with
the necessary control equipment. This would allow for a simple luminaire upgrade to include
controls when these critical issues are resolved and the systems become more viable. If a city
felt they might wish to add a street lighting control system in the future, they may choose to
add this Power Door feature to the preliminary specification recommended in Step 6.

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