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Consultant: Clear Lake underlit at night; audit and partial acquisition of fixtures could add lights and cut costs
Summary
Tango Lighting advised the city to conduct a lighting audit and GIS inventory, prioritize public-safety locations for up to 700 additional fixtures, and consider acquiring fixtures (not poles) from the utility to lower monthly costs and enable smart-city features.
A municipal lighting consultant told the Clear Lake City Council the city is ‘‘underlit’’ and recommended a lighting audit, a formal inventory and a study of options that could add prioritized fixtures while lowering operating costs.
Neil Tolley of Tango Lighting, engaged to review the city’s street-lighting system, told the council Clear Lake has about 262 PG&E-owned fixtures (69 percent already converted to LEDs) plus roughly 13 city-owned fixtures. ‘‘We felt the city might be extremely underlit. Clear Lake is actually closer to about 60 to 1 [residents per streetlight],’’ Tolley said, noting the typical ratio the firm sees is about 15 residents per fixture. He estimated the city might need up to…
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