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DPS City-wide LED Streetlight Program
Department of Public Service, Department of Finance
Paul M. Rasmusson (x7868), Tom Skrobola (x1648)
(Revised)
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Authorizing customer work agreements with The Toledo Edison Company providing for the replacement of existing streetlights throughout the city with LED streetlights; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The city administration and this Council have determined that it is in the best interest of the city and its residents to cause The Toledo Edison Company (the Company) to replace all of its existing streetlights on streets, alleys, and public ways in the city with light-emitting diode (LED) streetlights to enable the city to provide enhanced street lighting service and related benefits throughout the city, including increased visibility and safety for property owners, motorists and pedestrians, as well as energy efficiency and related energy and overall service cost savings.
This Council has determined that it is necessary, appropriate and advantageous to the city to approve, and to authorize the mayor to enter into, customer work agreements with the Company (the Conversion Agreements) providing for the Company to commence and complete such an LED conversion program (the LED Conversion Program) as promptly as possible and for payment of the costs of that Program to the city as incurred over the course of the Program as a separate part of the tariff paid by the city to the Company for the purchase of electricity and related services for street lighting in those years in which the conversion occurs.
Based on the replacement of up to twenty-eight thousand (28,000) streetlights and the tariff provisions applicable to the Company's Experimental Company Owned LED Lighting Program filed, pursuant to orders of the Public Utility Commission of Ohio, the aggregate cost of the LED Conversion Program to the city under the Conversion Agreements is estimated not to exceed $5,796,000. Accordingly...
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