LED streetlights begin lighting downtown Ann Arbor

Thursday, February 5, 2009 | Source: Concentrate

Downtown Ann Arbor is aglow with the light from LED.

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Downtown Ann Arbor is getting brighter and brighter every day ...now that city officials are in the home stretch of installing the energy-efficient LED lights.

"We're more than halfway done," says Andrew Brix, spokesman for the Ann Arbor Energy Office.

That means nearly 700 of the downtown's 1,100 streetlights have been relamped with LEDs. The remaining ones are set to be in by summer. The cost of replacing the incandescent bulbs with LEDs is pegged at $640,000. City officials expect to recoup those costs through electricity savings within 3.8 years.

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