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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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