It seems that LED lighting has caught the imagination of councils around the world. Anchorage in Alaska is the latest place to draw up a plan which aims to replace 16,000 streetlight fixtures (that’s around a quarter of the street lamps in the city) with LEDs.

It is hoped that the LEDs will use fifty percent less energy than a standard light fixture and therefore save Anchorage around $360,000 each year in energy bills. The council are said to have invested $2.2 million into the plan so the lights will hopefully pay for themselves over the next decade.

The lights are of crucial importance to Anchorage as the city has 85 days a year without less than eight hours of sunlight therefore the new LED lights could be a crucial step forward for cheaper energy bills and better energy efficiency.

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