The Town of Oliver has recently replaced 26 – 100 watt High Pressure Sodium (HPS) lights with Light-emitting Diode (LED) lights in the Tuc-el-nuit area with the services of Argon Electric.

They are Town owned lights heads on lamp standards (poles) that we have power meters recording the power consumption on. We will see the best power savings on Town owned light standards because the wattage with the new LED’s are only 44 Watts per head compared to the existing 100 watt per head for the HPS lights. We have a lot of lights in Town that are on FortisBC poles but are charged a flat rate for the power consumption and won’t see the savings until a better FortisBC tariff reflects the power consumption savings from LED lights.

These new LED lights are a GE brand (Evolve LED Roadway) light was decided they were the best light overall roadway lighting for; costs, looks, efficiency and effectiveness for the few brands we looked and received quotes for. Before purchasing we received samples from each brand and installed them to see how the light dispersion, colour and overall impression was with the different lights and chose the GE brand supplied from Nedco. Staff asked some local residents what they thought of the lights for feedback as well.

We haven’t fully changed out the entire Tuc-el-nuit area but hope we can do more each year and still need to replace more before the year end. The streets you will see these new light on are; Chardonnay Avenue, Shiraz Ave., Lakeside Drive, Zinfandel Ave. and Mountain Drive. We still need to replace some lights on Cabernet Place and hope to still have room in the budget to replace more on Lakeside Dr., Mountainview Dr., and Riesling Place.

Director of Operations
Shawn Goodsell