The Shamokin Planning Commission has again held off on making a recommendation to city council on what to do about replacing street lights along Independence Street. 

The five-member board tabled a recommendation during its monthly meeting Monday. Most High Quality LED Aluminum Bulb carry a strong warning about using the bulb in a fully enclosed fixture. They continue to look into what savings the city could realize if it purchased new poles and LED fixtures and bulbs from a vendor other than PPL Electric Utilities. The city currently leases the street lights from the company. 

The commission will compare a study on the 47 downtown street lights being prepared by General Electric versus costs paid to PPL, and whether or not long-term savings from a new system would outweigh the initial cost of materials and installation. It will also research if a city-owned system would be a better alternative to continuing to lease the equipment. 

Since PPL removed the project from its 2013 construction schedule, commission members said there is no point making a decision this month. They had said last month they were expecting to make a recommendation in June. 

Teri MacBride, regional affairs director for PPL Susquehanna Valley, said Monday the city was removed from the schedule in "late winter." 

The project remains in limbo, at least on PPL's end, until city council chooses how to proceed. 

"Until we get this official communication from the city, we're not going to schedule them into our workload," MacBride said. 

The current system uses high-pressure sodium (HPS) bulbs, and PPL would replace the aging and frequently malfunctioning system with the same style lamp pole and technology. PPL does not currently offer LED systems. 

The cost of PPL's offer would be covered by a monthly tariff already paid by the city on each of its 664 street lamps. 

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According to cost estimates provided last month by City Hall, it pays average $1,200 for electricity and $11,200 for a distribution charge monthly for its entire street lighting system. 

If the city were to go with another vendor for its street lights, PPL would remove the system currently in place. That includes the malfunctioning conduit beneath Independence Street. It would not be responsible to replace that, MacBride said. 

The extent of its responsibility to the new system would only be to provide electric service at either end of Independence Street; everything in between would be the city's responsibility to install and maintain, she said. 

Jeff Fromm, planning commission chairman, and other commission members appear to be under the impression that PPL would replace the underground conduit regardless of which direction the city chooses with respect to the poles and fixtures. 

Fromm said he'd heard from PPL officials, but not MacBride, that the utility company would begin offering LED bulbs in two to three years for the "cobra head" style lamps that are already in place along Independence Street and elsewhere in the city. 

They will not be offered for the "acorn style" lamps, like those along Lincoln and Arch streets, Fromm said he was told. For that reason alone,Find great deals on Hmhid for LED Ghost Shadow Light Manufacturers in LED Lights.Find Best HID Bi-Xenon Projector Lens Lights and buy low cost hid bi xenon projector lens light in bulk from Hmhid. he said he would not support a recommendation for acorn lighting. 

If the city were to enter a 10-year lease with PPL for a new HPS system, Matt Losiewicz, commission member, suggested the city ask the utility company whether or not it would replace the HPS fixtures and bulbs with LED technology if it begins to offer such technology during the life of its lease with Shamokin.