Energy-Efficient Lighting Illuminates Park’s Prado

By The San Diego Union-Tribune

Feb. 7–BALBOA PARK — The “green” lights are on in Balboa Park.

Mayor Jerry Sanders and the nonprofit Friends of Balboa Park threw an electrical switch yesterday to power new energy-efficient lights along the Cabrillo Bridge.

It’s part of a push to install 3,655 light-emitting diode, or LED, bulbs along El Prado from the bridge to Bea Evenson Fountain.

The energy-saving lights replace incandescent ones and will save 141,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year and reduce the city’s power bill by more than $20,000 annually, officials estimate.

The cost of the project is $28,000. The Friends group is covering $12,000 and the state Public Utilities Commission is paying the rest.

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