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Posted on the: August 13, 2018

Bright Lights, Beautiful City

Amerlux’s game-changing Avista light engine helps city of Portland decrease energy consumption 60%, while preserving vintage streetlamps Project Summary End User: The City of Portland/Bureau of Transportation Project Scope: Upgrade of 6,100 century-old high pressure sodium-lit streetlights in Portland, Ore., to Amerlux’s ‘Avista’ LED light engine in 2017 Agency Reps: Hy-Light Group,[...]

Posted on the: July 18, 2018

How New York City Cut Crime by 39% with LED Streetlighting

The easiest way to reduce crime in your city According to Gallup, four in 10 Americans don’t feel safe walking at night, even near their home.[i] Walking through dark and inconsistently lit areas at night is unsafe and, just as important, it feels unsafe. You could fall prey to a[...]

Posted on the: July 13, 2018

How to Slash Energy Bills, Crime with LED Streetlights

Old, ineffective lighting is expensive. It guzzles down energy like a pig, racking up power bills in the thousands or millions of dollars, while casting inferior quality light on your streets and sidewalks. There’s a solution to this problem—a solution that the cities of Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon have[...]

Posted on the: July 10, 2018

Lighting Controls: The Next Frontier in Facility Management

LEDs have more control options than any light source before them. With the right controls, you can adjust LED lighting any way you can imagine. You can dim LEDs, change their color temperature and control them wirelessly. You can even have them mimic the sun! Until recently, controls tended[...]

Posted on the: June 27, 2018

How to get someone else to pay for your LED lighting upgrade

In the long run, LED lighting provides enormous benefits to a city or company’s bottom line, delivering huge energy savings, maintenance savings and other benefits—such as decreased crime on city streets and increased productivity in workplaces. In the short term, upgrading to LED lighting can be expensive. However, there’s a[...]

Posted on the: June 19, 2018

Amerlux’s New Retrofit Coach Style Lantern Delivers ‘More, Better, Faster’

New Light-Weight Pedestrian Light Makes Installation a Breeze Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today it has launched a game-changing pedestrian light that delivers light more efficiently and turns post-top mounting into a one-person effort. The innovative Coach Style Lantern—made from die-cast aluminum as opposed to stamped steel—weighs only[...]

Posted on the: May 22, 2018

5 Reasons Why LEDs are More Eco-Friendly Than You Think

LEDs are far and away the most energy efficient lighting option on the market. During the last 10 years, government regulations and manufacturing improvements have made them more available. But energy efficiency is not the only environmental benefit of LED lighting. Here are five reasons why LED lighting is more[...]

Posted on the: May 4, 2018

The Top 10 Benefits of LED Lighting

Pound for pound, LEDs are far and away the very best type of light source around, for so many reasons. Pick a comparison point and LEDs outperform old-fashioned lighting types, such as halogen, high-pressure sodium (HPS), incandescent and fluorescent. LEDs are more versatile, last longer, provide better quality light, and[...]

Posted on the: May 1, 2018

Amerlux, FSG Unlock $831B for Retrofits

Free Energy Audit Helps Cities, Companies Cut Energy with Avista Light Engine Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today its collaboration with Facility Solutions Group (FSG) to launch a free energy audit program that will help municipalities and companies take advantage of $831 billion in federal reimbursements to fund[...]

Posted on the: March 6, 2018

Amerlux Lights Path From NYC to Chicago

Cities Demand Avista Retrofits Before $831B Government Relief Expires Amerlux, an award-winning design-and-manufacture lighting company, announced today its Avista pedestrian light engine has nearly lit 800 miles around the country—in less than four years—which is equivalent to the distance between New York City and Chicago. Avista’s patented, IP66-rated sealed LED[...]