LED Street Lights for Public Safety

Municipal LED street lighting is the way of the future – a very bright future. But how much efficiency can you really gain by switching over to light-emitting diode (LED) lighting?

Municipal Public Lighting
Memorial Park: Cupertino, CA © 2013 Great Basin Lighting

According to some studies, 25% of a given municipality’s electricity bill will go towards lighting. Some towns pay a much higher percentage. If your city or town is using outdated lighting technologies, you face problems both in the short-term and the long-term — problems that could be resolved, elegantly, through LED roadway lighting.

Traditional Street Lighting Headaches

For instance, let’s say your old lights need to be replaced – or the lighting infrastructure needs to be tweaked. You will need to pay for the equipment out of pocket (out of your town’s coffers) and pay for the labor. Plus, you’ll remain at risk of having to cycle through this problem, again and again, until you install a better way of doing business.

Ineffective lighting can have indirect bad effects, too. For instance, let’s say that your freeway lighting keeps failing. Your town is at risk for getting sued, if a motorist gets into an accident along that road. All it takes is one lawsuit over a multi-decade span to negate any “cost savings” your town might enjoy by “doing nothing” in the face of its inefficient lighting scheme.

Finally, inefficient lighting can drive away business and degrade public safety. This means that your town will get less tax money and have to work its police force that much harder.

The LED Street Lighting Solution

By strategically installing LED lighting, you can kill more than one bird with just one stone. LED technology has improved amazingly over the past few years; it’s much less expensive than it used to be. Your town or city can also enjoy LED tariffs and other incentives, once it makes the switch. LEDs consume much less electricity than older lighting technologies. Once you install, you won’t have to send workers out nearly as often to ensure the integrity of your lighting scheme. Finally, the costs of switching to an LED paradigm have gone way down as well.

The team here at Great Basin Lighting can show you how to transform the way that your town lights itself. We can help you keep things simple, cost-effective, on-time, and on-spec. Learn more about how to boost efficiency and improve your town’s safety and energy efficiency by getting in touch with Great Basin Lighting today by using our online contact form, or by calling: 925.240.1566 (California) or 775.333.0900 (Nevada).