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Solar Light Installations at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS090910-08
Release Date: 9/10/2009 3:19:00 PM

By Mario T. Icari, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest Public Affairs

MIRAMAR, Calif. (NNS) -- Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest (NAVFAC) Southwest awarded a $1.4 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funded contract to Synergy Electric Company Inc. Aug. 21 to install solar lights at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Miramar.

"This project will not only help to stimulate the economy by providing employment, it will also make a contribution to America's energy independence by removing several parking lot lights from the grid," said Laura Nelson, NAVFAC Southwest design manager for this project. "NAVFAC will ensure that ARRA funds will be spent as quickly as possible, with full transparency and accountability."

Synergy Electric Company Inc. will provide all necessary work for the replacement of existing parking lot lights adjacent to two aircraft hangar buildings and a maintenance support area at MCAS Miramar. The lights will be replaced with solar powered lights. Special security lighting and street lights will remain intact.

"The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Contract provides the crucial funds to take these inefficient lighting fixtures off the nation's electrical grid and send them to the scrap yard for recycling into new high efficient solar powered lights," said Diane R. Keltner, Synergy Electric Company Inc. president.

"This project will provide equal opportunity employment for local families and get America back to work. Solar lighting technology has come a long way in the last fifteen years. Lighting manufactures offer many different choices to fit within a varied environment. The existing grid-powered low efficiency parking area pole mounted lights at this project's location at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar have reached the end of their life cycle. This project will remove those existing fixtures and replace them with new solar powered lighting fixtures with additional new Solar Powered Pole Mounted fixtures added in specific areas to meet the IES lighting levels standards for parking lots. Increased sustainability will be provided by the use of aluminum poles which offer better corrosive protection in a coastal environment and total recycling of the existing poles, lighting fixtures, ballasts and lamps."

Work is expected to be completed by February 2010.

For more news from Naval Facilities Engineering Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/navfachq/.