and you did not read my comment from a person with 43 years in the trade in multiple states for multiple utilities, municipals, and co-ops - the surface area of the LED is within a percent or two the same as the sodium or the mercury vapor street light - the light itself does not have anything at all to do with the area covered - that is the lens on the light - that lens is designed to cover the area required - much more for the freeway - much less for the residential street - period - end of story 

what they are saying is so much BS - and if you had kept reading you would have read I said they could request the shade from the utility -