When Lake Nona pursued a vision to line its Southeast Orlando
streets with new lighting, the 7,000-acre, master-planned community
needed to match exacting aesthetic guidelines to leading-edge
technology. Community leaders found their answer in GE Lighting's
Evolve™ LED Contemporary Twin Support Post Top and Evolve LED
Roadway fixtures. Combined, the energy-saving street lighting
fixtures will consume approximately 253,000 fewer kilowatt hours
(kWhs) of electricity a year as opposed to traditional
high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting – a $27,000 utility cost
reduction.
Opting for GE Lighting's Evolve(TM) LED
fixtures will save Lake Nona, a master-planned community in
Southeast Orlando, $27,000 in annual utility costs. (Photo: GE)
Adjacent to Orlando's international airport, Lake Nona was
established in the late 1980s and has continued to grow into the
state-of-the-art community it is today. A recent surge in
development caused Lake Nona to consider new energy-saving street
lighting to match the modern architecture and design of new
businesses, medical facilities and a residential neighborhood of
2,700 homes.
"We wanted to push our energy savings initiatives, so we made
the commitment to going 100 percent LED with our street lighting,"
said Richard Levey, vice president of planning, Lake Nona. "But
none of the decorative fixtures we were being shown had the exact
design aesthetic we wanted, and we felt it was critical to install
a forward-focused lighting solution to go above and beyond in all
aspects of the community to build long-term value for our
residents."
Lake Nona architects connected with GE Lighting engineers to
arrive at a decorative fixture solution that matched the
community's contemporary look and feel. The fixture uses the same
energy-efficient LED technology as other GE Evolve LED post top
fixtures; the base and pole being specially designed for Lake
Nona.
More than 370 Evolve LED fixtures now illuminate Lake Nona where
a 175-watt metal halide system had been originally proposed. GE's
86-watt LED fixtures will save the community about $18,000 a year
by drawing 170,000 fewer kWhs.
Orlando's local electric utility, Orlando Utilities Commission
(OUC), also helped make Lake Nona's decision easy with its OUC
Convenient Lighting Program. This program bundles pole and
luminaire purchases, installation, design, expertise, maintenance
and energy costs all into one convenient point of contact.
"The payback for us has been almost immediate—we've essentially
seen savings since day one," said Levey. "Lake Nona's unique
relationship with OUC, coupled with OUC's long and successful
partnership with GE Lighting, ensured this project would proceed
flawlessly. The LED technology is so efficient that, when paired
with an energy credit also earned from OUC, it didn't make sense
not to install the new fixtures. It was a win-win."
Throughout Lake Nona, GE's Evolve LED Contemporary Post Top
fixtures also reduced glare commonly cast onto lawns or into homes
by conventional street lighting.
"This lighting is exactly what we wanted. It fits perfectly with
our vision—it's the right scale and the right character. GE did
what we didn't think was possible—they took an idea, really a
picture, from us and turned it into a phenomenal product in record
time," said Levey, explaining Lake Nona received the first fixtures
in time to satisfy the project's aggressive timeline.
Around Lake Nona, new lighting on more heavily traveled arterial
and collector streets was also installed. GE's Evolve LED Roadway
fixtures, drawing 130 watts each, avoided a 250-watt high-pressure
sodium (HPS) fixture design, saving 83,000 kWhs annually, or nearly
$9,000. The 134 fixtures feature advanced reflective optics to more
efficiently aim light where it's needed. A unique heat sink design
further provides excellent thermal management to extend LED
life.
GE Evolve LED Contemporary Post Top and Roadway fixtures have
helped Lake Nona achieve its goal of creating a community both
contemporary and futuristic in nature, and this represents only 10
percent of total project completion. In coming years, Lake Nona
anticipates more than 5,000 GE outdoor LED fixtures will be
installed at community education, medical, retail, residential and
recreational facilities.
LED lighting installations are just one component of a larger
corporate relationship between Lake Nona and GE. GE's
ecomagination(SM) and healthymagination solutions are being
showcased in hospitals, homes and clinics as part of Lake Nona's
commitment to developing an innovative health and sustainability
community. Among GE's innovative, energy-efficient products
currently available in Lake Nona homes are compact fluorescent
(CFL) light bulbs and ENERGY STAR-qualified appliances, including
refrigeration, laundry and water heater units.
"The specific example of the LED streetlight project speaks
about the level of this kind of relationship between Lake Nona and
GE," said Cody Bunce, Associate, GE Enterprise Team. "The fact that
the Lake Nona team brought realistic ideas of what they wanted to
accomplish with LED light fixtures made their big ideas, like
creating a lamp to call their own, very doable."
For more information about the GE Lighting products used in this
project, visit www.gelightingsolutions.com.
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GE Lighting invents with the vigor of its founder Thomas Edison
to develop energy-efficient solutions that change the way people
light their world in commercial, industrial, municipal and
residential settings. The business employs over 17,000 people in
more than 100 countries, and sells products under the Reveal® and
Energy Smart® consumer brands, and Evolve™, GTx™, Immersion™,
Infusion™, Lumination™ and Tetra® commercial brands, all trademarks
of GE. General Electric (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter to
build a world that works better. For more information, visit
www.gelighting.com.
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