Anna Leonard's Blog Posts Tagged 'Asheville' (1)

DURHAM, N.C., January 23, 2012 — Taking steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce its overall carbon footprint, the City of Asheville has initiated North Carolina’s first large-scale deployment of LED street lights. There are 3,643 LEDway® street lights from Durham-based manufacturer Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) being installed, with projected savings of $260,000 annually.



In the initial phase of the project, completed in June 2011, 730 street lights in Asheville’s River District…