Lacombe City Council has decided to switch the City's high pressure sodium street lamps, to Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology.

With the change, FORTIS Alberta says the City will save more than half a million kilowatts a year, equivalent to taking 80 cars off the road.

Stan Orlesky with FORTIS says Lacombe can expect 3 benefits from switching to LED.

"Better lighting, lower costs, and something that's green. You know everybody wants to be green today, and LED's use less energy so the community is then becoming a green community."

Lacombe will pay no up front costs for changing to LED and will save $5.71 a year per light.

Orlesky says they've heard very few bad things about the LED's.

"Some people say that it's too bright in front of their homes now, it shines back into their homes. But with the no backlight, no uplight, no glare, that's a hard complaint to understand. Some people say it's dark in front of their home now because their whole yardd isn't lit up like it used to be. And it's sad to say, but some people just don't like change."

Orlesky says they plan to start switching the bulbs over in the new year, with work being completed later in 2017.