Shining spotlight on savings with LEDs

Streetlights have glowed in Vancouver since before 1900 when Main Street boasted six electric-arc lamps. From that humble beginning, thousands of streetlights now brighten streets, roadways and parking lots all across Clark County. The old electric-arc technology has faded. Now improved light-emitting diodes are eclipsing high-pressure sodium lamps, just as those once replaced even older lighting technologies. Over the past few years, pilot projects have tested LED street lighting in smaller county communities and those tests have proven successful. In 2014, two pilot projects replaced about fifty streetlights with LEDs in Battle Ground and a couple hundred in Camas and Washougal.