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Home My Public Portal About1d - LED Roadway Lighting FAQs 8_24FLEDRoadway Lighting Frequently Asked Questions Q. Why is Georgia Power beginning to offer LED roadway lights? A. Georgia Power has been offering LED outdoor area lighting as part of its product offering to customers since January 2012. Governmental customers began asking about LED for roadway applications approximately two years ago. Until now, the initial cost of the ﬁ xtures made it prohibitive to offer LED roadway alternatives to our custom- ers. Technology improvements, coupled with market acceptance, resulted in lower pricing for LED roadway ﬁ xtures. Therefore, the economics are such that we can offer LED roadway ﬁ xtures at a comparable rate to what our customers currently pay for roadway lighting. Q. What is the difference between the Outdoor Lighting Service Governmental schedule: OLG and the new Public Service Commission (PSC)-approved Roadway Lighting Governmental schedule: RLG? A. The Outdoor Lighting Service Governmental schedule: OLG and the new PSC-approved Roadway Lighting Governmental schedule: RLG are both designed for roadway lighting requirements, including streets, alleys, highways, bridges and other public thoroughfares for federal, state or local government customers. They differ in that the OLG schedule is speciﬁ c to ballast-operated vapor lamp ﬁ xtures such as mercury vapor (MV), high-pressure sodium (HPS), or metal halide (MH), whereas the RLG schedule is speciﬁ c to light-emitting diode (LED) ﬁ xtures. Q. Will you change out all the ﬁ xtures at one time? A. Georgia Power is taking a phased-in approach to the conversion. The governmental customers we serve have ﬁ xtures of various wattages/lumen output. The implementation plan calls for a four-year phased-in approach. Timing could be affected by the availability of competitively priced ﬁ xtures that meet Georgia Power speciﬁ cations. Below is the anticipated rollout: • Phase I will replace the 100 and 150 watt HID cobrahead roadway ﬁ xtures with LED roadway ﬁ xtures. Phase I installations will begin in 2015 and carry over into 2016. • Phase II will replace the 250 watt and 400 watt HID cobrahead roadway ﬁ xtures with LED roadway ﬁ xtures. Estimates are that Phase II will occur in the 2016-2017 time frame. • Phase III will replace HID post top ﬁ xtures with LED post top ﬁ xtures. It is expected that the post tops will be converted in 2018. NOTE: Roadway lighting is being converted to LED at the customer’s request. Georgia Power is not forcing customers to convert their roadway lighting to LED. Q. If a governmental customer wants to participate in the LED Roadway project, who do they contact? A. Governmental customers that desire to be included in the LED Roadway project should contact Jerry Cook, LED Roadway account executive. Jerry will provide the customer with a Six-month Disconnect Notiﬁ cation form that must be signed in compliance with Georgia Power’s Outdoor Lighting Governmental (OLG) tariff. Once the six-month time period has elapsed, the governmental customer will be included in the schedule for conversion. Scheduling will be managed on a ﬁ rst-request basis, taking into account the need to balance the conversions across the state. To participate, contact: Jerry Cook, LED Roadway Account Executive 770-621-2415 (Ofﬁ ce) • 404-863-1418 (Cell) jecook@southernco.com continued on back Before – HPS After – LED 1502826 Q. Once Georgia Power begins, how long will it take to complete the installation? A. The length of time to complete the conversion will vary depending on the total number of customers on the schedule, quantity of lights to be converted to LED, and resources available (engineering, materials and contractors). After an initial ramp-up period, our goal is to install 500 lights per day/10,000 lights per month throughout Georgia Power’s service territory. Q. What are the beneﬁ ts of LED lighting? A. There are many beneﬁ ts to LED roadway lights: • Broad spectrum white light (the eye sees better!) • Improved color rendering • Improved small-target visibility • Uniformity • LED ﬁ xtures reduce/eliminate sky glow and light trespass • Energy-efﬁ cient • Long life expectancy of ﬁ xtures • No hazardous materials • Designed to operate with networked lighting controls Q. What are networked lighting controls? A. Each LED roadway ﬁ xture has a networked lighting control installed. Features of the networked lighting control include: • Turn on at dusk, turn off at dawn • Metering of energy consumption • Remote monitoring and diagnostics • GPS location • Fixture data • Dimming/scheduling Information about the energy consumption, ﬁ xture performance, etc., is captured through the networked lighting control and transmitted to our central management system. Q. Will changing to the LED roadway lights cost customers more? A. Customers will not incur any up-front or out-of-pocket costs to have their current roadway lights changed to LED. Their total monthly billing for the LED lighting under the Roadway Lighting Governmental (RLG) rate and the Energy for Outdoor Lighting Service (EOL) rate will be similar to the charges currently billed under the Outdoor Lighting Service Governmental (OLG) rate and EOL rate. The new total monthly billing may vary from current billing depending on the numbers and wattage of the lights being replaced with LED lights. The monthly bill will reﬂ ect an increase in the equipment lease and mainte- nance charge and a decrease in the regulated energy usage charge. Q. Will the LED Roadway bill format look different? A. Yes. New accounts will be established for LED roadway lights. There will be some nomenclature changes on the bills reﬂ ecting how the new LED lights are described (different from current HID lighting descriptions). Until all conversions are complete for a customer, the customer will receive a bill for the LED roadway lights installed and for the HID lights not yet converted to LED. New LED Roadway lighting accounts can easily be added to existing summary bill accounts if the customer is currently on summary billing. Q. What happens if these new LED lights go out? Who do I call? A. One of the beneﬁ ts of networked lighting controls is remote monitoring and diagnostics. Georgia Power will know if a light is not working properly and, in most cases, have the light repaired before the customer even notices that the light is out. However, in those instances where a customer does need to report a light out, it can be done by one of the following methods: • Call Customer Service at 1-888-660-5890. • Go to outdoorlighting.georgiapower.com. – Click on “Report Outages & Maintenance Needs.” LEDRoadway Lighting