Spotlight on LEDs
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The newly-developed US Department of Energy Sky Glow Comparison Tool is a simplified method for comparing luminaire and control system contributions to sky glow, allowing the user to vary the output characteristics of each product being compared. This user-friendly tool was designed in 2018...
Five years ago Pioneer Generation was a small hydro-generation business. Now it provides energy services to multiple clients, including local authorities, ensuring renewable electricity is better utilised for almost all day-to-day energy use requirements.
Pioneer’s general manager of strategy and business development Grant Smith says...
In 2013, fewer than five municipalities in Ontario, Canada, had upgraded their street lights to LED. Today there are more than 100. Scott Vokey, energy services manager for non-profit group LAS (Local Authorities Services), says many of the province’s municipalities are so small and remote that many organisations refuse to provide...
There is no evidence that standard street lighting solutions lead to fewer crashes. And a lot of notions about lighting must be challenged. So says Dr John Milton, director of enterprise risk and safety management at the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) in the US, whose area covers seven million people, 11,200...
Six years ago, the City of Los Angeles launched the largest municipal LED retrofit programme in the world. Now responsible for 215,000 streetlights, 250 employees and an operating budget of US$25 million, the city’s Bureau of Street Lighting director Ed Ebrahimian says Los Angeles may do some things differently if it were starting to...
How better street lighting is stimulating Melbourne’s economy
Melbourne has successfully revitalised its CBD and developed a strong night economy. Yet few people realise the city’s street lighting has been a vital part of the plan over the past 25 years.
Ian Dryden, the City of Melbourne’s team leader industrial design, says...
