Plymouth’s quest for greater efficiency in its street lighting has been dimmed, but not extinguished, as city officials grapple with more immediate financial concerns.
The city commission, at a recent budget study session, informally agreed to postpone a $104,000 project that would replace 392 mercury-vapor street lights with new light-emitting diode, or LED, lamps that could greatly cut the amount of electricity used by the system and save an estimated $30,000 a year on power bills. That was among changes in the 2013-14 budget proposal that commissioners are planning to use to close a gap of about $200,000 in the more than $7 million general fund budget.