Bay Area Next Generation
Streetlight Initiative
February 2012
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Silicon Valley Leadership Group

Region-wide project to upgrade large volume of streetlights to advanced lighting and controls with exceptional purchase and financing terms
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• US Department of Energy
– Outdoor lighting: 87% of sales by 2030
– All market: $4.5 billion by 2015
• McKinsey Global
– Outdoor lighting: 70% market share by 2020
• Strategies Unlimited
– 2011 revenues: +45% over 2010
• Pike Research
– 85% to 95% of new product investment
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• Lower environmental impact
– Energy savings
– No mercury
• Lower maintenance costs
– Longer lifetimes
• Improved light distribution and quality
– LED directionality
– Color rendering, color temperature
• Increased controllability
– Instant on/off
– Dimmable
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75
70
65
60
• More choices (over 300 models)
• Cost falling fast
• Efficacy good and improving
Avg   LPW   of   New   Products Total   Number   of   Products
80
55
Jan ‐ 10 Aug ‐ 10 Sep ‐ 11
0
Apr ‐ 12
100
50
350
300
250
200
150
Feb ‐ 11
Date
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• White LEDs broader spectrum than HPS
– Esp. low light/nighttime
• Positive focus group response
– Equal or better than HPS
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Before and After:
San Francisco and San Jose
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600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Baseline LPS
Baseline HPS
LED
ETCC Lighting Studies
(multiple models tested per study
)
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• Recent Forbes article highlighted cities in California saving money with LEDs
– ~90W power reduction per fixture
– ~$50-60 annual savings per fixture
City
Brisbane
Carpinteria
Needles
Foster City
Lemoore
Marysville
Yountville
Ceres
Burlingame
# HPS fixtures replaced
417
199
30
260
283
176
110
2,200
767
Monetized annual energy savings
$20,000
$11,600
$1,892
$17,600
$6,240
$4,285
$21,060
$108,500
$57,500
Kerman 718 $26,364
Source: Forbes online http://www.forbes.com/sites/justingerdes/2012/01/30/10-california-cities-saving-money-withled-street-lights/
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• Over $40 million in ARRA/EECBG funds for advanced streetlight projects in the U.S.
Projects ≥ $1Million
Seattle, WA
$1,000,000
San Jose
$2,000,625
Clark County, NV
$1,600,000
Sunnyvale, CA
$1,142,500
Pomona, CA
$1,356,880
Gilbert, AZ
$1,100,000
Anaheim, CA
$1,000,480 Ontario, CA
$1,023,980
Chicago, IL
$3,129,000
Irving, TX
$1,922,210
Islip, NY
$3,026,100
LED
Induction
LED/Induction
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Case Studies: LA and Seattle
City Project
Size
Installed to date
Energy reduction
Annual
CO
2 reduction
Annual kWh savings
Annual energy cost savings
Los
Angeles
140k
Seattle 40k
(Phase I)
62k
20k
“LED street lighting has proven to be a significantly better light source in terms of expected maintenance, energy efficiency, and quality of light”
– Edward Smalley, Seattle City
Light
61%
>48%
16,500 27.8 million
7,700 13 million
$2.4 million
$858 thousand
“This project showcases how government can address environmental and economic challenges …the Bureau of
Street Lighting is proud to play a part in greening Los Angeles”
– Ed Ebrahimian, General Manager of the Bureau of Street Lighting
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• Wireless networks:
– Remote on/off
– Customized lighting schedules
– Outage detection/ maintenance alarms
– Energy metering
• Reduced maintenance
Source: http://www.owlet-streetlight.de/english/owlet/
• Adaptive lighting – vary output by activity/ambient conditions
– Further energy reductions up to 10~20%
– PG&E pilot: billing streetlights based on actual, metered consumption
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• Perhaps 80k~100k LED streetlights already installed
(or soon will be) in the Bay Area!
Walnut Creek San Mateo Bridge
Pittsburg San Francisco El Cerrito
Image sources: www.ledway.com and DOE 14

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You
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Goal to replace 200,000+ streetlights:
• Improved light quality and distribution
• 50%+ energy reduction
• Significant GHG reductions and energy cost savings
• Improved procurement terms
• Job creation
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• December 2011 survey
– Interested: 53 of 58
– Upgradable: ~240k
– Interested in controls: 29
– Primary barriers
• cost, uncertainty of technical specs, uncertainty of LED performance
Public   Agency
City   of   San   Jose
City   of   Oakland
City   of   Fremont
City   of   Santa   Rosa
City   of   Sunnyvale
City   of   Vallejo
City   of   Hayward
City   of   Santa   Clara
City   of   Berkeley
Alameda   County
City   of   Palo   Alto
Inventory   of   non ‐ decorative   streetlights
62,000
30,000
16,000
12,500
9,020
8,400
8,000
8,000
7,666
6,800
6,365
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• Fixture and controls manufacturers, sales reps, and local distributors, have indicated the following:
– little to no impact on lead time for large orders
– consolidating bids/RFPs is a huge positive
– purchase terms very likely to improve on bulk orders (10-25% depending on volume)
– only ~5-7 fixtures types needed in Bay Area
– little to no added cost for “controls-readiness”
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• Using CCI/DOE MSSL Consortium model
• Estimated cost and energy savings of replacing 200,000 fixtures
– Estimated Project Cost: $93 million
– Annual Energy Savings: 61,000 kWh (19,000t CO
2
)
– Annual Energy Cost Savings: $7.4 million
– Simple payback: 6.6
– 15 year IRR: 16.5%
– Additional savings possible with controls
• Annual Energy Savings: 5,000 kWh (1,000 tons CO
2
)
• Annual Energy Cost Savings: $0.4 million in energy costs
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• Financing Options
– CEC low interest loans
• 3% loans
• Up to $3 million
• Available through 2013
– PG&E On-Bill Financing
• 0% loans
• Up to $250,000
• Incentives
– PG&E LED streetlight rebates
• $50 to $200 per fixture
– PG&E customized retrofit incentives
• $0.05 per kWh for lighting projects
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• Relies on MSSLC Model Specification for LED Roadway Luminaires
• Borrows from San Jose’s last RFP
• Specs replacement fixtures for the most common applications
– High quality of light
– Guaranteed energy savings
– Explicit warranty requirements
– PG&E rebate qualified
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• Robust base of standards & guidelines
– 24 or more from NEMA, UL, ANSI, IES, etc.
• Fixture spec/RFP development
– Municipal Solid State Lighting Consortium (MSSLC)
• Model Specification for LED Roadway Luminaires
– Tool for putting together bid documents for LED streetlight conversion projects
– http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ssl/specification.html
• Model Specification for streetlight controls (coming soon)
• Project benefits analysis
– Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) economic evaluation tool
• Tool for estimating the financial and environmental benefits of an LED streetlight retrofit project
– http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ssl/financial-tool.html

1. Speak with Energy Solutions
2. Review specification & cost/benefit
3. Engage your stakeholders
4. Participate in the regional project
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Rafael Reyes, Executive Director
Bay Area Climate Collaborative rreyes@baclimate.org
, 408-409-5534