Bright Lights, Brighter City

摘要

In 2014, City Clerk Jim Shelcnske wanted to brighten the parking lot behind the South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, city hall by replacing high-pressure sodium (HPS) lights with LED bulbs and luminaires. Dark shadows and poor illumination made police vehicles parked there susceptible to vandalism.His pilot project was so successful that, three years later, Mayor Erik Brooks asked Shelenske to head an effort to convert lighting in all 12 municipal buildings to LED. By the end of 2017, thousands of HPS, metal halide, and fluorescent lights inside and outside buildings housing the fire, street, water, and wastewater departments; a self-deposit recycling station; and library as well as city hall had been upgraded. The city received $14,510 in Focus on Energy funds, an incentive program launched in 2011 by Wisconsin's 108 electric and natural gas utilities, for the $160,000 project.