Obama to announce energy efficiency projects, one to improve Detroit municipal lighting system | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama this morning was set to announce public and private sector commitments to advance solar energy utilization and energy efficiency projects, including one hoped to lead to improvements in Detroit’s municipal lighting system.
The city was named as one of five nationwide to be served by what the White House is calling a High Performance Outdoor Lighting Accelerator, a project to be started in the Energy Department intended to “increase the adoption and use of high efficiency outdoor lighting.”
The program is aimed at replacing more than 500,000 outdoor lighting poles and making system-wide upgrades to muncipal lighting, the White House said in a fact sheet.
How the program would work -- including its funding and how many light poles could be replaced in each city -- was not immediately unveiled by Obama administration officials.
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