Although, as TreeHugger has recently pointed out, LEDs are not the most efficient form of lighting in terms of lumens per watt, their extremely long life makes them more economical to operate over their span of operation because they need to be changed so infrequently, and LEDs can provide a more pleasant spectrum of light than sodium lamps do.
The downtown globe lights have had small placards soliciting public feedback attached to them since the test started at the beginning of the year. According to the local newspaper, only three comments received have been negative, and the department has been getting inquiries about the lights from across the U.S. as well as Canada and Europe.
The city hopes to be able to cut its $1.39 million street lighting budget in half by switching to LED street lighting, and that accounts for just the energy savings. Maintenance savings will allow crews to be able to concentrate more on other projects within the city.
The manufacturer of the streetlights is also working with the LED manufacturer from the pilot program to develop a streetlight that is directly manufactured for use with LEDs.
via: Ann Arbor News (second story in link)

written by Preston, January 05, 2007
written by rob, January 05, 2007
The only problem with using LED lights could be visibility. If you try using a LED torch to find something in the loft, it is harder to see, than with a normal torch, although the LED appears to be brighter.
written by James, January 05, 2007
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written by James, January 05, 2007
That is what threw me.
written by Hank, January 05, 2007
Second, American cities rarely use low pressure sodium nowadays. I have no idea why, apparently they want a broader spectrum of light and are willing to pay for it. The LED lamps must be significantly more efficient than whatever it is that Ann Arbor is currently using. It could very well be halogen, which is fairly common nowadays, and also fairly inefficient.
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No More diodes, we are now looking at chips! Very interesting.
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written by Joe, December 16, 2007
Mercury vapor lamps are normally inexpensive to install and relamp and their white light is not offensive but they are not as energy efficient as high pressure sodium. High pressure sodium lamps are usually inexpensive to install and relamp and are energy efficient but their peach light color is unappealing. Metal halide fixtures are usually energy efficient and provide very accurate color rendering, but they are usually more expensive to install and relamp (and in many cases, utilities and municipalities are reluctant to replace and throw away functioning fixtures, unless they have a good reason to do so as did Ann Arbor in its downtown pedestrian shopping district). Hence the compromises with all three types of lamps.
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written by Peter A. Hochstein, February 12, 2008
Advanced, white power LEDs [Cree XRE] can deliver over 107 lumens per Watt and are nearly equal in luminous efficacy to HPS lamps but with a BIG difference: They depreciate in luminous output at a MUCH lower rate.
Using advanced thermal management, the Relume LED light engines will deliver 70,000 hrs of light [to 70% of initial output] while HPS lamps would degrade in 20,000 hrs to something on the order of 40% of initial output.
HPS lamps may deliver more gross lumens per Watt, but current published research shows that the yellow / pink quality of the light has a low CRI [25] and is marginal in terms of visual acuity. In fact, 5500 K LEDs that deliver 1/4 the gross lumens of an HPS lamp are found to deliver BETTER acuity.
LPS lamps are another matter - with a CRI of 0, they aren't really suitable for general lighting and as efficient as they might be, humans can't see too well in the 590 nm, monochromatic light ... so why use them?
Regarding 'equivalent'luminous output, the newest LEDs [CRI = 82] deliver the same illuminace on the roadway as standard MH lamps at half the input power, primarily because the LED flux can be directed onto the street rather than the sky. The LED globes in Ann Arbor were originally MH lamps that used 2X the power of the LED light engines we installed. These LEDs are projected to last 10-12 years instead of 2 -3 for the MH bulbs.
While the AA globes aren't full cut - off because of their geometry, many of our LED luminaires are dark skies compliant.
written by Patrick Robinson, March 01, 2008
Ironically this is all dated now. There is a dutch company who have patented a new power management system specifically for intelligent streetlights. They are LED units www.lioris.eu and they have a new system using Zigbee. This allows for 99 slaves for every master. The end result is focussed lighting at the same brilliance as sodium lighting with heads the same price a sodium heads but they speak to each other using GPRS and Zigbee.
End result - Streetlights that eliminate light pollution and reduce energy consumption by about 90%. This power managenemt system apparently is going to be licensed out to other streetlight vendors.
written by Peter A. Hochstein, March 02, 2008
Major players include Virticus, Echelon and others. Mesh networks using a wide variety of license free communication protocols such as Zigbee or any number of systems operating in the ISM bands have also been around for a while. NONE of this impacts the importance of luminous efficacy, useful life and life cycle cost. Any number of manufacturers boast about having the 'magic answer' to green, cost efficient LED street lighting, but the proof is on the street - so to speak.
Relume has more installed LED luminaires than all other companies combined. We even publish our erformance ... photometric IES files developed by independent, acredited testing laboratories. No other company does this ... if THEY have the ultimate answers, why not publish third party test results?
The fact is ... nobody has the answers to all LED lighting problems. The cost of the fixtures is still high and we have problems [$$$] duplicating the performance of 400 W H.P.S. lamps ... even when we employ the most aggresive thermal management methods.
Unfortunately, the field is over-run with pretenders who think that LED solutions are the result of press releases!
written by Mark, March 18, 2008
written by Matt Everett, March 20, 2008
LED, even in it's somewhat immature stage is 20-35% more efficient.
Plus they last so long they are vastly more cost effective. HPS not ONLY burn out fast, but their lumens output fades quickly over time. SO, even if your HPS lamp lasts 2 years it will likely have only 70% the output it use to.
Another smart move is getting the light CLOSER to the ground so you don't have to use such high wattage such as parking lot lights which tend to be very high up for no apparent reason.
Distance greatly diminishes light output. Smarter made reflectors and light enclosures that don't become cloudy or translucent over time would help a lot also.
How much of that wattage is being absorbed by the inferior reflector and the foggy glass over it.
LED's are vastly more weather resistant also and they don't produce that nasty electric interference that HPS use. They also don't get burning hot to the touch AND they can't shock you dead easily like an HPS ballast could.
It's horrible congress is too dumb to push this technology. LED's unlike HPS have the potential to get A LOT cheaper. HPS is a widely used technology and is very cheap via mass production.
LED is simpler and will cost much less as the industry matures. However, smart investments from the states would speed that up. Ideally congress could give them some direction on reliable savings.
I think LED is one that we can bet on to be the future of lighting. We are probably not going to do much better than LED anytime soon and we can probably improve it considerably.
We've used LED's in electrics for years, but only recently has the blue LED come out allowing for white LED's to be produced. I feel unlike HPS, LED's are conservatively rated AND like fluorescent their lumen output does not fade quickly over time as HPS does.
HPS is a good technology, but it has no real place now that white LED's are out. There are other high efficiency light techniques that are cheap such as sulfur lighting, but nothing so commercially viable as LED.
You can even buy LED replacements to your flashlights now.
We are pushing CFL on the states now. We probably should skip right to LED since energy prices are ONLY going up and it takes gas to send the guys out to change the light bulbs. The biggest cost is likely the energy, then the maintenance, then the equipment. SO, the increased purchase price of LED is the least important of the costs and will come down significantly as more people buy into the tech.
written by Tom Hamar, April 08, 2008
written by Peter Hochstein, April 14, 2008
We have sold other led fixtures to Battle Creek, Grand Rapids & Oxford, MI, Canton, OH, Weland, ON [Canada] and are under test in over 100 other locations.
Why would anyone buy these things if they can't get a payback?
written by Bill, April 29, 2008
written by Peter Hochstein, May 05, 2008
Total average solar flux is on the order of 1 KW per square meter. Affordable solar panels convert only 12 -15% of that energy into electric power that can charge batteries. If we assume a 1 square meter solar panel [~$ 1000] is attached to each street lamp pole and can collect sunlight for 6 hrs. per day, we could store about 600 Watt-hrs of energy - after charger / battery losses etc. In some parts of the U.S. [New Mexico] we might be able to power a 60 Watt street light [not much light] for around 10 hrs. with the stored power.
The problem is that for most of the U.S. we have at LEAST one cloudy day for every sunlit day - making the proposition impractical.
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written by gerre, August 27, 2009
Current like bulbs polluted the nite-sky with light, LED focus on the ground is true and much efficient LED is on the way too. When affordable nano crystal solar pad available, There will be more saving i energy cost.
Beside labor, let's not forget the waste from the burnt light bulbs. LED have a longer lifespan and smaller, therefore product less waste after it burnt.
Many cities in China using the LED technology for a few years now. I think is time for North Americans adopt LED.
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On July 3rd the U.S. President Obama announced that the U.S. Department of Energy will invest nearly 2 billion U.S. dollars to subsidize two companies to build solar power plants to support the development of the U.S. solar industry and increase employment.
And Latest news shows that Seattle plans to take more LED street lights to replace the existing historical traditional street lamps.
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