Bright idea: Raleigh switches to LEDs
Raleigh, N.C., is doing what all other cities across North America should be doing: investing in efficiency today that will pay off handsomely in the long run. The city is beginning to replace all public light fixtures with LED lights, beginning with public garages and street lights and eventually moving on to stadiums, parks, schools, gyms and other public places. It’s expected the energy savings will result in a payback of about three years, even though the lights cost far more than conventional fixtures.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca