Lighting · Recorded milestone
LED streetlights
Recorded year2009
Los Angeles approves swapping 140,000 sodium streetlights for LEDs, the biggest such retrofit yet, and cities worldwide follow.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.