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Retail parking lots are tough to light: crisp enough to bring in customers, safe maneuvering for pedestrians and cars, minimizing dark areas where unwanted activities can happen all while providing energy efficient, environmentally friendly lighting. King’s Plaza shopping center on the corner of 41st Avenue and Capitola road did that with their recent conversion to LED […]

Two parking lots along 41st Avenue adopted LED lighting within the past two months bringing the total of LED parking lot lights to 34 out of a total of approximately 550 lights.  This brings the penetration to 6.1%.  The number of LED lights slightly more than doubled since last year.  The lights all look good, are using less […]

One of the goals of this website is to track the LED adoption rate in its various applications. Because of the similarity of technology and proximity to street lights, parking lot lighting seems like a natural next step. The U.S. Department of Energy, April 2013 report -Adoption of Light-Emitting Diodes in Common Lighting Applications estimatedthat in 2012 there […]

The migration from LED street lights to LED parking lot lights is clear. Here in the parking lot across the street from the Santa Cruz library on Church street they have installed 10 BetaLED lights. An additional feature of these lights is the passive infrared (PIR) sensor, the white round piece, which detects activity in […]