Shedding efficient light on cost savings

The City of Peterborough is testing LED street lights with plans to roll out a city-wide conversion of street lights to the softer LED lights. London has began the process of building a business case to replace it's roughly 35,000 street lights with LEDs. After small scale pilot projects over the past four years, city hall has taken the first steps towards replacing London street lights with energy-saving LEDs. On May 6, city council approved a $90,000 agreement with RealTerm Energy — an LED lighting systems company that has partnerned with the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) on a LED street light upgrade initiative. RealTerm offers data collection, street light photometric design, construction and operation, but it’s the former two London will need before city administration can present a business case for a city-wide replacement project.