Dell Williams Jewelers at 1320 Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz, Ca is Using LED Lights

The requirements of high quality lighting drive jewelry stores to use the best lights available while the desire to reduce electricity usage drives them toward energy efficient lights. LED lights that deliver high marks in both of these areas are being installed in the Dell Williams store on Pacific Avenue. The dominant lights in jewelry stores today are […]

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LED Lighting Adoption Rate – Parking Lot Lighting – Baseline Count, 41st Avenue, Capitola, California

One of the goals of this website is to track the LED adoption rate in its various applications. Because of the similarity of technology and proximity to street lights, parking lot lighting seems like a natural next step. The U.S. Department of Energy, April 2013 report -Adoption of Light-Emitting Diodes in Common Lighting Applications estimatedthat in 2012 there […]

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Capitola, California Shell Station Converted to LED Lighting

LED lights are successfully used in three different applications at the Shell station on the corner of 41st Avenue and Capitola road in Capitola. This station converted to LEDs in 2012. 1) The canopy lighting.  Because this is a 24 hour operation which needs to be well lit, the energy savings from LED lights is […]

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LED Parking Lot Lighting

The migration from LED street lights to LED parking lot lights is clear. Here in the parking lot across the street from the Santa Cruz library on Church street they have installed 10 BetaLED lights. An additional feature of these lights is the passive infrared (PIR) sensor, the white round piece, which detects activity in […]

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Santa Cruz looks to retrofit two-thirds of streetlights

LED lights reduce energy use 70 percent, cost 40 percent SANTA CRUZ – Using grants and special financing from PG&E, the city hopes within a few months to have replaced about two-thirds of streetlights with higher-efficiency, brighter LED bulbs to increase safety and cut energy use. The city has replaced 242 lights since November 2010 […]

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Santa Cruz Installs LEDs

Today about 18% of the electricity generated in the US is used for lighting. The lighting, lighting controls companies and government agencies are directly addressing this with new technologies and standards. The most flexible and energy efficient of these technologies is LED based. White light LEDs are rapidly evolving from flashlights to the distinctive daylight […]

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