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G��;� <br /> Agenda Item: Reports-3b Status : Informational <br /> r Northern States Power Company <br /> r <br /> • North Division <br /> 4501 68th Avenue North <br /> Brooklyn Center,Minnesota 55429 <br /> Telephone(612)566-9120 <br /> a <br /> September 6 , 1983 <br /> Mr. David Childs <br /> Manager, City of St. Anthony <br /> - 2900 Kenzie Terrace <br />'s St. Anthony,, MN 55418 <br /> RE: CONVERSION OF NSP OWNED STREET LIGHTS <br /> TO 'HIGH PRESSURE SODIUM <br /> r <br /> I <br /> Earlier this year, NSP initiated a program for conversion of <br /> all NSP owned street lights to energy efficient high pressure <br /> I sodium lamps. NSP developed this program to reduce the <br /> number of less efficient street lights on its system, in line <br /> with NSP' s and the National committment to energy conservation. <br /> • Recent reductions in the cost of high pressure sodium fixtures <br /> supplied to NSP, enables us to make the- <br /> he street light conversion <br /> program more attractive to you. This cost-reduction has <br /> occured due to a nationwide movement toward the use of this <br /> new, efficient light source , resulting in mass production of the <br /> high pressure sodium equipment At lower costs. <br /> Corespondingly, NSP, on September 8, is filing with the <br /> Minnesota and South Dakota Public Utilities Commissions and the <br /> North Dakota Public Service Commission a rate request to lower <br /> its rates for high pressure sodium street lights so that they <br /> are the same as those now charged for mercury vapor street 1. <br /> lighting of equivalent light output. We have also filed with <br /> these commissions -to eliminate the $5. 00 mercury-to-high pres- <br /> sure conversion charge. The filings also include a request <br /> that the mercury street light rate be closed and no longer be <br /> offered for new installations. <br /> After we receive the Commissions' approval, NSP will start con- <br /> verting NSP owned mercury, incandescent, and fluorescent street <br /> lights to new, energy efficient high pressure sodium at no <br /> charge for the conversion. <br /> This means that NSP will now be updating our street lights to <br /> modern, more efficient fixtures at no additional cost to you <br /> while conserving energy at the same time. The converted lamps <br /> will use .33% to 55% . less energy. and .provide 17% to 33% more <br /> • light output than the lamps they replace, depending on lamp <br /> size. In-.the future, as .NSP' s costs of producing electric, <br />