The City of Cambridge is working to update more than 2,600 street lights across the city to make them energy efficient.
As previously approved by Council, the City’s LED street light conversion project will see all post top and decorative light fixtures replaced with new Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology. The conversion will not include the city’s heritage globe lighting or Varco lighting on regional roads.
The lights will still retain their style and look, with the biggest noticeable difference being the colour of the light they emit which will be a cool white.
LED lights bring environmental and cost benefits to the city and are part of their ongoing sustainability efforts, reads a press release.
LED lights last 2-4 times longer than conventional street lights and are 50 per cent more energy efficient, lowering maintenance costs significantly and will decrease the city’s carbon footprint.
This is the second phase of the LED street light conversion. In 2018, phase one of the project was completed in partnership with the Region of Waterloo and area municipalities. It included the supply, delivery, and installation of approximately 6,500 LED street lights in the City of Cambridge and the disposal of existing High Intensity Discharge (HID) Cobra Head Luminaires.
Fairway Electrical Inc. has been contracted to do the work over the next four months. The project is anticipated to be completed by the end of this year at an approximate cost of $1,879,854.21
