Medfield Energy Committee recommends LED streetlights

In its continued quest to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent, Medfield's Energy Committee is recommending converting all 347 town streetlights to LED lights. According to the committee's report, that changeover would drop the cost to run and maintain the lights from $41,000 a year to just $8,300 per year. Another incentive, according to committee chairman Fred Bunger, is the potential for grant money from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) that could potentially pay for 30 percent of the installation costs.