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New LED Street Lamps To Save Yonkers $18M Over Next 10 Years

YONKERS, N.Y. – New energy-efficient LED lamps will be installed into 12,000 street lights throughout Yonkers in a project that is expected to save the city $18 million in energy costs over the next decade, Mayor Mike Spano announced.

Street lamps throughout Yonkers will be installed with LED lights by the end of 2014.

Street lamps throughout Yonkers will be installed with LED lights by the end of 2014.

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The light replacement project is part of Spano’s overall sustainability plan that is projected to save the City of Yonkers more than $2 million annually and reduce its carbon footprint by 10 percent, the city said.

“The City of Yonkers is leading by example,” said Spano said in a statement. “Energy-saving improvements like LED lights are a common sense way to cut costs and protect the environment at the same time. In addition to keeping our critical infrastructure in a state of good repair, we are ensuring a more comfortable, safe and productive quality of life for our taxpayers.”

The light replacement project, contracted to Lumen Light Solutions (a joint venture of Yonkers Contracting and Verde Electric), began Monday and will take place in three phases: in phase one, about 1,200 lights will be installed where street lights do not work; in phase two, lights on major roadways – like Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue, Nepperhan Avenue, Riverdale Avenue, South Broadway, etc. – will be replaced; in phase three, all remaining street lights in the city will be replaced.

The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2014.  The new LED lights were manufactured by Phillips Hadco and are projected to last 80,000 hours (or nearly 19 years).

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