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LED Parking Lighting in Federal Facilities Marine Corps Base Quantico Achieves 85% Savings in Parking Lighting With technical assistance from the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP), the Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCBQ) recently undertook a major overhaul of its outdoor lighting, boosting safety and security throughout the site, while cutting energy costs and earning a national award in the process. The MCBQ replaced nearly 2,000 old and ineficient street lights, parking lot lights, and exterior area lights across the 1,000-acre site, which includes about 100 parking lots. The Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCBQ) in Virginia replaced 2,000 old parking, street, and outdoor light ixtures with eicient LED lights to save energy while increasing safety The MCBQ replaced its mercury vapor and security. The MCBQ is home to the Marine Corps’ Oicer Candidates School and the and high pressure sodium ixtures Combat Development, Recruiting, Systems, and Training and Education commands as well with light-emitting diode (LED)-based as approximately 3,400 of the Marine Corps’ 200,000 active service members. Training ixtures. The LED ixtures save energy facilities for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration both because the LEDs produce more are among the other activities located at the MCBQ. Photo courtesy of MCBQ. lumens per Watt and because less light is “wasted.” Due to their directional LEDs have excellent color rendering. Eficiency in Parking (LE