Thompson Local News

New LED street lights working well except for rare "flickering"

 

Manitoba Hydro's LED conversion program will see 30,000 street lights across the province replaced (Manitoba Hydro).

 

If you’ve spotted the new LED street lights flicker on and off, you’re not alone.

 

Bruce Owen with Manitoba Hydro says they’ve noticed it too. He says it happens rarely, and only when it gets especially cold. But it’s not because of the street lights themselves. Owen says it appears to be an infrastructure or wiring issue and that they are monitoring it.

 

Other than that, Owen says the lights seem to be working quite well, and that the LED’s love the cold.

 

The LED lights hit the streets of Thompson last summer, with about 2,700 lights in total converted in the City. By next month more than 30,000 street lights in the province will have been replaced with LEDs.

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