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Arvada staff outline plan to buy streetlight system from Xcel Energy; council signals informal support for LED conversion
Summary
City staff and consultant Jason Tango presented an economic analysis showing multi‑million dollar savings if Arvada acquires roughly 7,000 streetlights from Xcel Energy and converts remaining fixtures to LED. Councilmembers said they support proceeding to negotiations, but no formal vote was taken at the March 25 workshop.
Arvada City Council staff and consultant Jason Tango told a March 25 workshop that the city could save tens of millions of dollars over 20 years by acquiring its streetlight system from Xcel Energy and converting remaining fixtures to LED.
The presentation summarized a two‑phase inventory and an economic analysis by Tango Lighting that compared three options: keep the current utility service, buy the lights and maintain the existing fixtures, or buy the lights and convert all fixtures to LED. Jason Tango, chief executive officer of Tango Lighting, said the city currently pays about $1,445,006.71 per year to the utility and that taking ownership and operating the system would drop the city’s annual cost to roughly $245,000 under the analysis presented.
"That means that the city stands to save almost $25,000,000 by taking over the system over the next 20 years," Tango said during the workshop. He estimated the one‑time acquisition cost at about $6,681,423 and said that roughly 2,000 fixtures…
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