Municipal Lighting Project
Anchorage has over 6,000 outdoor lights using 30-year-old technology. Through extensive testing, we’ve identified LED lighting as the technology of the future for outdoor lights, and we are moving ahead with a plan to make LED lights the standard for all of Anchorage’s outdoor lighting, including streets, parking lots and garages, and trails. These fixtures use half the energy of current HPS technology and last seven times as long.
Following recent Assembly approval of phase 1, roughly 4,000 LED fixtures have been installed throughout the city. At an initial investment of $2.2 million and an annual savings of $360,000, these fixtures will pay for themselves in less than seven years, and produce ongoing savings for the life of the fixture.
Anchorage is blazing the trail in streetlight improvement policies, and communities across the state, the country, and around the world are watching closely to follow our lead.
