streetlights cost millions of dollars every year in energy bills and equipment upkeep. a new neighborhood initiative in the minnehaha-hiawatha community of minneapolis is testing a lighting system using led and induction technology to improve energy efficiency and diminish costs to taxpayers.<\/p>\n
the minnehaha-hiawatha community is experimenting with 6 different led bulbs and 3 different types of induction lights both of which are high efficiency in order to measure which work best.\u00a0 this not only saves money from a decrease in electricity use but these new bulbs also last longer which means the city doesn\u2019t have to pay a maintenance crew to go out and change the bulbs very often.\u00a0 this project saves money and the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
streetlights cost millions of dollars every year in energy bills and equipment upkeep. a new neighborhood initiative in the minnehaha-hiawatha community of minneapolis is testing a lighting system using led and induction technology to improve energy efficiency and diminish costs to taxpayers. the minnehaha-hiawatha community is experimenting with 6 different led bulbs and 3 different…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4905,4894,4898,4900],"tags":[2609,2010,3913],"storyfest_categories":[],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adaptation","category-efficiency","category-engineering","category-green-living","tag-hennepin-county","tag-led","tag-sustainable-cities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n