Update on Citywide Streetlight LED Conversion Project

SCE will start construction on the Citywide Streetlight LED Conversion Project on Monday, September 23, 2024. As part of the City's Five-Year Strategic Plan, the City has partnered with Southern California Edison (SCE) to convert existing streetlights with new energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) lights citywide.

This project will upgrade over 3,400 SCE-owned streetlights in the City with LED fixtures through SCE's LS-1 Option E Program. In addition, all the Mission Bell streetlights in the City will be replaced with cobra-head LED fixtures. The benefits of these new LED lights include improved visibility, longer light life, reduced maintenance, fewer outages, and a significant reduction of electricity needed to power streetlights citywide, resulting in energy and cost savings. As a result, the City will realize an estimated annual energy cost savings of $158,120 for the first 20 years. This equates to a cumulative savings of $3.1 million over 20 years.

The project is expected to be completed by December 2024. SCE's contractor, SASCO will begin upgrading streetlights at the southeast corner of the City and progress throughout. They will be working during daylight hours over the next month to install the new fixtures across Placentia. They will be performing the work during the following hours:

• Residential Streets: 7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
• Arterial Streets: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

This work will not have an impact City street sweeping or trash collection services. The installation will take about 3-4 weeks. The initial installation is estimated to be completed by the end of October 2024. There are approximately 20 lights located on Imperial Highway/Rose Drive that require the right-of-way approval from Caltrans. This approval process will take approximately two (2) months. SCE anticipates completing the retrofit of these lights by December 2024.

If you are an HOA community and would like to convert the SCE-owned streetlights to LED on your private streets, you may be eligible to participate in SCE's LS-1 Option Program. For more information on this program please contact SCE Manager of Street Light Projects, John King at [email protected].

To learn more about this project please visit www.placentia.org/streetlightproject. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this project, please contact Elsa Robinson, Senior Management Analyst at [email protected] or (714) 993-8189.