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PAMF Santa Cruz Carries out Major LED Lighting Retrofits

The Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF) has converted two of their Santa Cruz facilities to LED lighting. Replacing incandescent and compact fluorescent (CFL) bulbs with LED screw-in bulbs is happening throughout Santa Cruz county in commercial and residential locations and a variety of these bulbs are sold at many county stores.  The PAMF conversion is noteworthy […]

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Capitola’s King’s Plaza Shopping Center Goes LED

Retail parking lots are tough to light: crisp enough to bring in customers, safe maneuvering for pedestrians and cars, minimizing dark areas where unwanted activities can happen all while providing energy efficient, environmentally friendly lighting. King’s Plaza shopping center on the corner of 41st Avenue and Capitola road did that with their recent conversion to LED […]

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July, 2014 Parking Lot Adoption Rate Update – 41st Avenue Capitola, California

Two parking lots along 41st Avenue adopted LED lighting within the past two months bringing the total of LED parking lot lights to 34 out of a total of approximately 550 lights.  This brings the penetration to 6.1%.  The number of LED lights slightly more than doubled since last year.  The lights all look good, are using less […]

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Dreisbach Moss Landing Cold Storage Warehouse uses LED Lighting with Wireless Controls

Carlos R. Vasquez, Hilltop Warehouse Manager, improved his cold storage bay lighting with LED High Bay fixtures and controls from Digital Lumens. Vasquez evaluated LED High Bay fixtures ability to improve the light distribution, dimming, color and reliability over his two previous generations of lights; High Pressure Sodium and fluorescent. His application was challenging: the bays are cold, the ceilings are […]

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Discretion Brewing in Soquel Glows with LED Lighting

Discretion Brewery at 2703  41st Avenue in Soquel has installed an LED cable lighting system that is low-energy, functional and fun to look at. The stainless steel fixtures and cable with the white light LEDs are successful in blending the bar and dining area with the equipment and lighting in the brewery section allowing customers to be part of […]

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New Leaf Community Market Westside, Santa Cruz, Ca. Improves Store with LED Lighting

The New Leaf Community Market Westside location made a significant conversion to LED lighting six months ago.  Co-owner Rex Stewart wanted to enhance the store environment, save energy and reduce the effort and waste of changing failed bulbs. The conversion to LED lighting included retrofitting the enclosed refrigerated cases and changing out 150+ overhead lamps to LED […]

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Many Hands Gallery in Capitola Adopting LED Lighting

Many Hands Gallery at 510 Bay Avenue in Capitola shows a variety of artwork by local artists ranging from paintings, to pottery, to sculpture to jewelry.  The store had halogen lights in the past but the store owner wanted to reduce her lighting costs, reduce the number of times she had to change failed lamps […]

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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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