BestPracticeLEDStreetLightingSystem-NewYorkCity.pdfVIP

This report is publicly available on the NYC Global Partners’ Innovation Exchange website /globalpartners/innovationexchange Best Practice: LED Street Lighting System REPORT UPDATED: FEBRUARY 24, 2011 CITY: LOS ANGELES POLICY AREAS: CITY PLANNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY BEST PRACTICE Los Angeles’ LED Street Lighting Energy and Efficiency Program is the largest environmentally friendly LED (light- emitting diode) lights project ever undertaken by a city. Launched in 2009, the City aims to replace its 140,000 streetlights during the five year program. To date, over 36,000 LED lights have already been installed. This program is implemented by the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting. ISSUE The Los Angeles Street Lighting System had 140,000 streetlights that used approximately 197,000,000 KWH per year. Energy costs were a real concern. Street Lighting maintenance is primarily funded from the Street Lighting Maintenance Assessment Fund (SLMAF), which generates $42 million dollars annually. This fund covers all costs associated with the operation and maintenance of the Citys street lighting system: energy cost, material, labor, fleet, cost for other City entities support, and material. The SLMAF has been frozen since 1996 with the passage of Proposition 218, which hampers the Citys ability to adjust the fund to correspond with the inflation index without directly going to the voters for that authority. Meanwhile, the operational cost of the Bureau has continued to increase. In 2007, the Bu