Install LED Street Lighting

The City of Ann Arbor, Michigan andCree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), a supplier of LED solid-state lighting components, announced that in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption, they will install more than 1000 LED streetlights beginning next month. Ann Arbor plans to become the first U.S. city to convert 100 percent of its downtown streetlights to LED technology.

Ann Arbor will join Raleigh, N.C. and Toronto, in the growing LED City™ initiative. The LED City is an expanding community of government and industry parties working to evaluate, deploy and promote LED lighting technology across the full range of municipal infrastructure to:

* Save energy
* Protect the environment
* Reduce maintenance costs
* Provide better light quality for improved visibility and safety

"This initial installation should save the City more than $100,000 per year and reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 294 tons of CO2. Our plan is to retrofit all downtown lights with LED alternatives over the next two years" said Mayor John Hieftje.