City of Chicago Testing PolyBrite's Borealis LED Streetlights

Author: SSLDesign News Staff

August 10, 2010... The city of Chicago has joined a long list of cities to test LED street lights. Chicago will be testing LED-based street lights from in-state company, PolyBrite International Inc., of Naperville, Illinois. PolyBrite makes the Borealis brand LED Lighting Systems. The company announced that the City of Chicago has installed its new Borealis LED streetlights as part of a pilot project to test the streetlights. The City of Chicago will monitor the LED streetlights, weighed against their current lighting solution for streets and alleyways. The goal is for a safer, cleaner and brighter light that will improve nighttime safety and the overall appearance of the city.

Borealis LED streetlights have been installed and will be monitored for three months on the block of 4800 W. Parker Avenue in Chicago, IL. The city will be testing the LED streetlights for high color rendering to assure adequate vision, and greater control of light dispersion, and energy savings. Currently, most of the city’s streets are illuminated with High Pressure Sodium (HPS) streetlights. HPS lights are used primarily because of their long rated life relative to other conventional options, but HPS street lighting has a very low color rendering, that PolyBrite says, hinders visibility at night.

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