LED replacing old-style street lights in Brownsville (Texas)

Energy-efficient LED street lights are beginning to replace Brownsville’s old high-pressure sodium-vapor lights, which have been in widespread use for about 50 years.

The LED luminaires emit a bright white light compared to the warm yellow glow of the older lights.

BPUB spokesman Ryan Greenfeld said 5,661 of Brownsville’s 11,717 sodium-vapor street lights had been replaced with LED luminaires and that it’s estimated the city will be 100 percent LED within two and half years.