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City Considers Buying NYSEG’s 1,000 Lights, Changing Them To LED

City Considers Buying NYSEG’s 1,000 Lights, Changing Them To LED ONEONTA – Common Council Tuesday will be briefed on a program to finance City Hall’s purchase of 1,000 streetlights and converting them for energy-saving LED bulbs. Through the state’s “Smart Street Light NY” program, the city would buy all the streetlights, now owned by NYSEG, and install new streetlights with a $1.25 million state loan, which it would repay with an estimated $125,000 in annual savings. At 7 p.m. Tuesday,…