City of Mason Michigan Goes Green With LED Christmas Lights



Consistent with its ongoing efforts to promote sustainable practices, the City of Mason recently announced that it will begin to replace its incandescent holiday lights with energy-efficient LED Christmas lights. The first to be changed are the lights on the community's Christmas tree, located on the Ingham County Courthouse's west lawn.

"In past years we have decorated the tree with about 500 C7 and C9 incandescent bulbs and about 25 percent would burn out each year," explained Doug Klein, executive director of the Mason Area Chamber of Commerce. "We also installed more power outlets underneath the tree with ground fault interrupters and we would still blow several fuses causing substantial portions of the tree to go dark," Klein added.

Mason is replacing the 500 old incandescent bulbs with 1200 C7 style multi-colored LED lights. The City, Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Development Authority shared the cost of the new lights. They purchased the lights from HolidayLEDs.com a new e-commerce company specializing in LED holiday lights, located in Jackson, Michigan. The official tree lighting by Don Jacot, Mason's citizen of the year, takes place on Friday, November 23 just after 6:00 p.m. during the Mason Holiday Celebration, which is followed by their annual electric light parade.

"Not only will the City have more lights on its tree this year and save some money in electricity, the new LED lights are rated to last for more than 200,000 hours and will serve the City for many years to come," said Philip Curtis, co-owner of



City of Mason Michigan Goes Green With LED Christmas Lights