State TIB selects Palouse for LED light grant

Palouse was selected as one of seven Washington towns to participate in a Transportation Improvement Board pilot program to install LED lights, and study its cost effects.

TIB Executive Director Stevan Gorcester said that LED lights have started to be installed in Washington cities for about five years.

“The energy is lower and the maintenance cost is massively lower,” he said. The lights can last up to 25 years before they begin to dim, thus reducing the need to change bulbs.

“Because of lack of modernized technology, we’re spending more money on streetlights than we need to,” he said.

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