Crews Install LED Streetlights in Richfield

Richfield's streetlights are getting an upgrade.

Last month, Xcel Energy began installing LED fixtures in streetlights in nearly 350 communities throughout Minnesota, including Richfield.

The effort focuses on converting about 90,000 Xcel Energy-owned streetlights from cobra head-style, high pressure sodium bulbs to new, more energy-efficient fixtures using LEDs, according to a news release.

The Star Tribune reported cities in northwestern and central Minnesota will receive new streetlights first before Xcel will begin on the Twin Cities area around Nov. 1.

Other suburbs in the Twin Cities metro that will receive new LED streetlights include Apple Valley, Eagan, Edina, Inver Grove Heights, Mendota Heights.

The complete conversion from high pressure sodium bulbs to LED streetlights across the metro is expected to take two and a half years to complete.

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