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Lessons Learned Street Lighting in the City of Westminster Ben Goldstein Management Analyst City of Westminster, Colorado

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Page 1: Lessons Learned - USEmbassy.gov · General Lessons Learned •Own your streetlights •Use Interdepartmental teams •Technology is always improving •Take advantage of industry

Lessons Learned Street Lighting in the City of Westminster

Ben Goldstein Management Analyst City of Westminster, Colorado

Page 2: Lessons Learned - USEmbassy.gov · General Lessons Learned •Own your streetlights •Use Interdepartmental teams •Technology is always improving •Take advantage of industry

Westminster, Colorado

Residents (population)

Average Household Income

Households

Median Age

Size of city in square miles

Square miles of green space

Seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter)

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107,967

$68,206

43,996

35.4

33.7

11.1

4

Page 3: Lessons Learned - USEmbassy.gov · General Lessons Learned •Own your streetlights •Use Interdepartmental teams •Technology is always improving •Take advantage of industry

What Drove the Conversion of Streetlights?

• Economic factors

• Staff driven

• City Council supported

• Collaborative

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Page 4: Lessons Learned - USEmbassy.gov · General Lessons Learned •Own your streetlights •Use Interdepartmental teams •Technology is always improving •Take advantage of industry

Goals for Street Lighting Conversion

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• Save money

• Currently spending $2.5 million annually on 8,000 street lights

• Save energy

• Committed to reducing our carbon footprint

• Reduce maintenance

• Take advantage of the extended life of LEDs

Page 5: Lessons Learned - USEmbassy.gov · General Lessons Learned •Own your streetlights •Use Interdepartmental teams •Technology is always improving •Take advantage of industry

What Challenges Will Your City Face?

Key challenges in Westminster:

• Existing infrastructure

• 8,000 approximate lights citywide

• 28 different lighting and pole types

• Third-party Utility

• 3 different owners (2 utilities and Westminster)

• No energy efficient option provided by the

utilities for street lighting

• No existing rate structure for street lights

• Lack of available staff time to evaluate and implement

• Extreme temperatures

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Ashley Morgan Photography

Page 6: Lessons Learned - USEmbassy.gov · General Lessons Learned •Own your streetlights •Use Interdepartmental teams •Technology is always improving •Take advantage of industry

A Phased Approach to Efficient Street Lighting

All lights

City owned lights

New lights

Demonstration location • Started with small steps

• We installed 4 LED streetlight demonstration sites

• Based on results from demo sites:

• Installed LEDs for all new streetlights

• Planning to install LEDs on streetlights owned by the city

• Hoping to replace existing lights with LEDs

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Page 7: Lessons Learned - USEmbassy.gov · General Lessons Learned •Own your streetlights •Use Interdepartmental teams •Technology is always improving •Take advantage of industry

Our LED Projects

• Lighting Demonstrations Sites

• Site 1 – Residential

• Site 2 – Decretive arterial

• Site 3 – Traditional arterial

• Site 4 – Parking lot

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Seeing is Believing

Color Board Test (HPS) Color Board Test (LED)

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The Data

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Page 10: Lessons Learned - USEmbassy.gov · General Lessons Learned •Own your streetlights •Use Interdepartmental teams •Technology is always improving •Take advantage of industry

Our LED Projects

• New lights (US-36 Highway)

• New lights citywide

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Evaluating the Return On Your Investment

• What is your motivation

• ROI can vary

• Replacing other infrastructure

• Non numeric factors

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Page 12: Lessons Learned - USEmbassy.gov · General Lessons Learned •Own your streetlights •Use Interdepartmental teams •Technology is always improving •Take advantage of industry

Evaluating the Return On Your Investment

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Evaluating the Return On Your Investment

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General Lessons Learned

• Own your streetlights

• Use Interdepartmental teams

• Technology is always improving

• Take advantage of industry resources

• Collaborate, communicate, and convert

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Colorful sunrise credit Fred Girk

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What Questions May I Answer?

Ben Goldstein

Management Analyst

City of Westminster, Colorado