Memphis’ streetlights to be converted to LED
Memphis, Light, Gas and Water Division President and CEO J.T. Young on Wednesday, Aug. 3, gives a demonstration of the LED lighting that will replace the city’s current lighting. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
All 77,330 of the city’s high-pressure sodium streetlights will be replaced with LED lighting in a project that includes an automated management system that notifies MLGW when the lights are out.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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