Steps To Becoming An LED City®
1. Identify a pilot LED lighting installation. Potential applications include:
- Parking-garage lighting
- Parking-lot lighting
- Pedestrian street or pathway lighting
- Outdoor building-facade lighting
- Interior and exterior recessed can lighting
2. Contact LED fixture manufacturers with solutions for the pilot application selected. The following link provides contact information for a number of LED fixture manufacturers. The manufacturers can provide application, product and pricing information as well as help you calculate potential energy and maintenance-cost savings. http://www.ledcity.org/fixture-contacts.htm
3. Select, purchase and complete installation of LED lighting products for the initial pilot project.
4. Contact Deb Lovig, Cree LED Programs Manager, at deb_lovig@cree.com to discuss joining the LED City program.
5. Get agreement from the mayor’s office to participate in the program, share results of the pilot, commit to evaluating LED lighting across your infrastructure and deploy LED lighting where it makes good business sense.
6. Confirm energy savings, energy-cost savings and maintenance-cost savings as compared to the traditional lighting solution. Compare initial purchase costs and overall lifetime savings to determine return on investment. This information will be valuable in helping all stakeholders decide where LED lighting makes good business sense.
7. Plan an announcement of your participation in the program.
You may wish to conduct a survey or solicit input from citizens to assess how the new lights are being received. Signs can be posted to prompt email feedback on light quality and safety issues. You may also wish to take before-and-after photography (professional-quality) to help illustrate the dramatic difference in the new lighting.
Energy Star® Go
California Lighting
Technology Center Go
Lighting Research
Center Go
ASSIST Go
California’s Title 24 Go
Unscrew America Go
LM79, LM80 Testing Go
LEDs Rock Tees Go
Questions to Ask Vendors Go
Cree LED Revolution Go
US Dept. of Energy, SSL Go
"The City spends substantial amounts of money every year replacing and maintaining lighting. What the LED City initiative means is not necessarily that we will be spending more, but spending more wisely on emerging technology that will save a lot in the long run... The whole point of declaring this public/private initiative is to develop a long-term plan to save money and take advantage of LED technology to spend smartly. The goal is to get the best lighting value for the citizens of Raleigh and serve as a model for other cities seeking to do the same."
Dan Howe,
Deputy City Manager, City of Raleigh, NC
