Town of Greece LED Street Lighting Program to Launch

The Town of Greece is making significant progress on its multi-phase program of converting town-owned street lighting assets to light emitting diode (LED) technology. The Town previously purchased the street lighting infrastructure from Rochester Gas & Electric (RG&E), which created the opportunity to initiate the LED conversion process. 

Phase 1 of the street lighting upgrade project is currently underway, converting 1,272 street lights to LED technology along all or part of several major arterial roadways in the Town of Greece: Ridge Road, Latta Road, Long Pond Road, Fetzner Road, Dewey Avenue, Stone Road, Mount Read Boulevard, and Ling Road. In these areas, traditional high intensity discharge (HID) fixtures will be replaced with Philips brand LED luminaires and CIMCON asset management nodes.

Through the Clean Energy  Communities program, the Town of Greece completed four of 10 high impact action items to demonstrate its commitment to energy conservation and sustainability. The CEC designation garnered the Town a grant of $150,000 to be used towards the LED street lighting project. Rebates from RG&E valued at $63,692 will further reduce total project implementation costs.

LED street lighting luminaires consume less electricity and last four times longer than traditional HID fixtures, thus saving the Town money on operational costs and results in a project that will have a payback of about five years. The financial savings from Phase 1 of the LED street lighting upgrade will total more than $2.5 million over the next 25 years.

Additional phases of Greece’s comprehensive lighting upgrade project will convert several thousand more Town-owned street lights to LED, primary in residential areas. This work is anticipated to start in 2021.

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