UPDATE

The Nevada State Office of Energy has awarded Clark County with $301,240 for the upgrade of signalized intersections with energy-effiicient LED lighting fixtures. Currently all 525+ signalized intersections maintained by Clark County have LED traffic signal heads, these funds will be utilized for LED streetlight luminaires and illuminated signs at several intersections throughout the valley to a fully upgraded energy-efficient LED signal system.

Clark County Public Works will spend the EECBG grant funds to purchase induction light fixtures that will be used to retrofit approximately 5,540 streetlights. The County owns and maintains over 100,000 streetlights throughout the unincorporated Clark County service area -which encompasses Laughlin, Mesquite and Indian Springs rural communities. Many of the current streetlight fixtures operate with mercury vapor lamps that consist of 175 watts and 400 watts, depending on their location.

Clark County was allocated $7,763,000 based on a formula grant from the United States Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG). The EECBG Program is new in 2009. The Program was funded for the first time by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). ARRA appropriated $3.2 billion for the EECBG Program, over $2.7 billion of which will be distributed through formula grants to cities, counties, states, and Indian tribes. Clark County's EECBG grant will be administered by the Real Property Management Department and available to various departments for projects which meet the purposes of the EECBG Program. The Department of Public Works requested $1.6 million to fund its Streetlight Modernization Program. With this project, over 5,000 mercury vapor system lamps will be replaced with energy-efficient lighting induction lamps. The life of induction lamps on the market today reaches 100,000 hours, a maintenance cost savings will be realized over the long-term. An immediate benefit is that the new technology requires half as many watts of power to produce the same illumination levels. Reduced energy consumption is estimated to save the County over 50% in power costs with the upgraded streetlighting systems!

For information on construction contract opportunities, visit the Clark County Purchasing & Contracts Division website: http://www.accessclarkcounty.com/depts/finance/purchasing/bids/pages/listings.aspx

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