Last week I attended the Brighter Tomorrow Conference co-sponsored by the Ville de Montréal and Hydro Québec. 70 municipal electric engineers, lighting engineers and project leaders from more than 20 municipalities across the province of Quebec attended the conference. The main objective was to share with them the results highlighted in The Climate Group’s 2012 report Lighting the Clean Revolution: The rise of LEDs and what it means for cities authored by The Climate Group and LightSavers Canada. It concludes that outdoor LED luminaires designed for neighborhood streets, urban expressways, and parking areas and garages, have now reached market maturity.[...]

Philips Lumec’s Capella series, now available in LED (i.e. powered by the innovative LifeLED): a synonym of maximum reliability and safety while enhancing the visual impact of any urban setting.

You want proof? The city of Bettendorf in Iowa is a great example and certainly a convincing proof of that. A video presents the benefits for the city and its residents since adopting Philips Lumec’s Capella LifeLED solution [...]