New Orleans to spend $14.7 million converting old streetlights to LEDs

The City Council has approved a plan to use $14.7 million from Entergy New Orleans to convert old streetlights into energy-efficient LED units on the east bank of Orleans Parish. The money cannot be used in Algiers because Entergy New Orleans does not operate there. People who live in that neighborhood get their power from Entergy Louisiana. The measure — basically the same idea that Mayor Mitch Landrieu proposed in presenting his 2014 budget last fall — received the council’s unanimous support last week