news + media
NEWS
LA Lights Strategic Plan for 2020-2025 Released - 9/9/20LA Streetlight design competition winner is announced - 9/3/20
An LA design competition to light up the night - KCRW 11/19/19
Avoiding a Motor City Mess, Part I - lightED Magazine 6/24/19
LA: Lighting the Way - lightED Magazine 11/26/18
Bureau of Street Lighting Historic Museum - Best Rebuff to Urban Light - LA Weekly 10/5/16
Mayor Garcetti's welcoming speech - Illuminating Engineering Society, 2016 Street and Area Lighting Conference in Los Angeles - 9/19/16
How LA is now saving $9M a year with LED streetlights - TechRepublic - 7/7/16
LA’s Using Energy Savings From LED Streetlights to Charge Electric Vehicles - Wired - 6/8/16
There's a hidden museum of streetlights in downtown Los Angeles - KPCC - 6/10/16
Smartpole streetlights with small cell technology - 11/5/15
L.A. to Control its Streetlights with a Single Laptop - CNN - 4/10/15
Los Angeles City Employees Club "Alive" Newsletter - June 2014 - 6/4/14
U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy - 7/8/13
Los Angeles Has Swapped Out 140,000 Street Lights for Highly Efficient LEDS - The Daily Beast - 6/20/13
LED Replacement Program Completion - Press Release from the Office of the Mayor - 6/18/13
US Department of Energy - SSL Postings - 1/29/13
Forbes Magazine - Los Angeles Saves Millions With LED Street Light Deployment - 1/25/13
LEDs Magazine - Street and Area Lighting Conference - 11/1/10
CityWorks - Los Angeles City Department of Public Works - October 2010 - 10/1/10
2010 DOE Solid State Lighting Market Introduction Workshop - BSL excerpt - 7/22/10
LEDs Magazine - BetaLED streetlights Included in Los Angeles Retrofit Program - 9/22/09
Press Release from the Office of the Mayor - 2/16/09
VIDEOS
Bureau of Street Lighting - In Honor of Public Works Week - 5/21/20LA Lights the Way Streetlight Design Competition - Student Category - Mayor Garcetti - 1/16/20
Los Angeles has a brilliant solution to everyone's biggest fears about electric cars - Mayor Garcetti - 9/26/18
U.S. Department of Energy - City of Los Angeles LED Streetlight Program - 10/28/13
President Clinton - LED Replacement Program Completion - Office of the Mayor/Clinton Climate Initiative - 6/18/13
LED Replacement Program Update - Office of the Mayor - City of Los Angeles - 11/19/12
What Happened to the Milky Way? - The Atlantic - 1/22/15
Council District 15 - LED light installation with Councilman Buscaino - 3/6/12
LED Replacement Program - Office of the Mayor - City of Los Angeles - 1/14/11
CNN - Future Cities - LA's Lighting Revolution - 10/27/10
HowStuffWorks - City Shorts - 2/16/10
Future City - Los Angeles - United Nations Climate Change Conference - Copenhagen - 12/18/09
Los Angeles Goes LED - 2/25/09
CTN Green - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - Los Angeles LED Streetlights - 2/18/09
PROJECTS
Sepulveda Tunnel Lighting ProjectSepulveda Tunnel after LED conversion (video) - 12/9/13
PHOTOS
LED replacement program completion press conference - 6/18/13
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LED installation photos from Council District 13 with Councilman Garcetti - 1/10/11
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LED installation photos from Council District 2 with Councilman Krekorian - 7/26/12
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LED replacement program announcement press conference - 2/16/09
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LED Conversion Program - Before and After Photographs - 6/7/12
6th Street Bridge Over the Los Angeles River | |
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Bixel and Colton | |
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Blythe and Willis | |
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La Mirada | |
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LED Hoover | |
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Ocean Front Walk - Venice | |
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Vendome St and 101 Fwy Underpass | |
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View from Mt. Wilson | |
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Hill St Dimmable LED Luminaires - 5/23/11
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LA River Bikeway - 6/18/12
Solar Powered LED Lighting | |
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Slauson Ave and 110 Fwy Underpass (Metro Station) - 12/1/15
LED Soffit Lighting | |
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