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Thanks to a grant from the Energy Department's Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, a community in Delaware was able to install a solar array that is saving taxpayer's money on town utility bills.

Thanks to help from the Energy Department, convenience stores across Georgia are saving energy by switching to energy efficient lighting. In the first year alone, participating small businesses have saved over $7,000 after the retrofits and over 54,000 KWh of energy.

For decades, we have been buying light bulbs based on how much energy they consume. Lumens give us a new way to shop for light.

By saving energy, municipalities in New Mexico are saving money on their energy bills – money that's being used for other public services.

I don't think about parking lots often. Hot in the summer and jammed with frantic shoppers during holidays, I try to spend as little time in them as possible.

Thomas Edison would be amazed. The conventional light bulb is getting some serious competition from a 10-watt LED bulb -- the first winner of the Energy Department's L prize.

NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is one of several test sites for a new hydrogen fuel cell-powered mobile light tower that has the potential to drastically reduce dependence on diesel-fueled mobile lighting across the United States.

In the small Midwestern town of Muscatine, Iowa—known as the "The Pearl Button Capital of the World" for the millions of pearl buttons produced there in the early 1900s—a lighting retrofit project will bring a new kind of shine to the town: LED streetlights. By replacing 300 high pressure sodium cobra head streetlights with LED fixtures
the town is projected to reduce energy and maintenance costs by up to 15,000 a year.

It's easy to measure the effects of a lighting retrofit project in a city like Altoona, Pa., where 169 new LED units are expected to save $4,078 in energy costs annually. But there are also other benefits to such energy efficiency initiatives, which can be seen in the local companies that make the projects possible...

Temperatures above 100 degrees mean that staying cool and being energy efficient is important to the small town of Oro Valley, Ariz. But finding the funds to do both can be a challenge. It was this heat – and the availability of a federal grant – that Bayer Vella, the town's conservation and sustainability manager, cited as a reason the city is forging ahead with energy retrofits and solar projects.

“It’s a win for everyone: the environment, the cities, buildings, for us,” says Gianna O’Keefe, marketing manager for Ruud Lighting, which is producing LED lights that emit more light, have a longer life and provide anywhere from 50 to 70 percent in energy savings.

Five projects will help Dayton, Ohio residents save money and help them to conserve energy.