{"id":37,"date":"2026-09-29T08:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/2026\/09\/29\/new-led-floodlights-switched-on-before-the-harbor-city-clash\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:46:04","slug":"new-led-floodlights-switched-on-before-the-harbor-city-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/2026\/09\/29\/new-led-floodlights-switched-on-before-the-harbor-city-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"New LED floodlights switched on before the Harbor City clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maplewood Park will look different under the lights this weekend. The club&#8217;s new LED floodlight system was switched on for the first time on Tuesday evening, ahead of the Premier Division meeting with league leaders Harbor City.<\/p>\n<h2>Brighter, greener, broadcast-ready<\/h2>\n<p>The $1.2m project replaces the 1994 metal-halide towers with 312 LED fittings. The new system uses 60% less energy, reaches full brightness instantly and meets the lighting standard required for continental cup broadcasts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>312 LED fittings across four towers<\/li>\n<li>60% lower energy use every matchday<\/li>\n<li>Instant restrike \u2014 no more half-time warm-up delay<\/li>\n<li>Light show capability for goals and big European nights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Every seat is brighter, every camera angle is sharper, and our energy bill goes down. It is the best money we have spent on this stadium in thirty years.<\/p>\n<p><cite>\u2014 Club secretary<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Supporters are asked to be in their seats fifteen minutes before kick-off on Saturday for the first matchday light show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $1.2m upgrade cuts the stadium&#8217;s lighting energy use by 60% and brings Maplewood Park up to continental broadcast standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club","tag-maplewood-park","tag-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-football-club-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}