Council approves plan to replace streetlights with LED bulbs
Posted Jun 3, 2015 05:38:47 AM.
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Halifax city council has approved a plan to change all of the streetlights in the city to LED’s at a cost of almost $50 million.
The project was awarded to electrical contractor G.J. Cahill at Tuesday’s council meeting for just over $37 million. Add in $7.2 million to buy all the old bulbs from Nova Scotia Power, about a million in contingency, and half a million for project management, and that number climbs to $47.6 million.
City staff say the plan is to recover that money in less than ten years through savings from using the new locally-sourced LED light bulbs from Amherst-made LED Roadway Lighting. Right now, the city is projected to spend almost $7 million a year maintaining and powering the old lights, and the new ones will cost about $2 million, saving $5 million every year.
Staff also said the new lights will alert the city when they’re burnt out, and they can be programmed to dim after midnight in quiet areas.
The project will be completed over the next two years.
