Vermont's largest municipal electric utility is going green with 35 LED streetlights retrofits in a residential area for the first time, and saving 74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights.
It’s said the Burlington Electric Department already had been using LED streetlights in downtown commercial areas, but now will do so on Shore Road along Lake Champlain and neighboring streets.
This LED retrofit was estimated to save74% of the energy used by traditional streetlights and officials hoped to expand the installment in the future.