Truckee Donner Public Utility has supplied free LED holiday lights to almost 700 customers who turned in their old incandescent light strands in December.

According to TDPUD General Manager Michael Holley, it’s the fourth year that they offered this program. The light strands given to customers equate to more than five percent of TDPUD's total customer base. Since the inception of the holiday light exchange program, the TDPUD has given away energy efficient LED holiday light strands to more than 2,000 customers.

He said that ,“this year, we gave away almost 10 miles of energy efficient holiday lights. Energy and water conservation are incredibly important to the TDPUD. Conservation measures like the LED holiday lights helps to lower energy usage and costs. This is just one of the many programs we have in place designed to move Truckee toward a sustainable energy and water future.”