Energy Focus (EFOI) is announced to replace the existing fluorescent lights in two US navy ships with its LED Berth lights using IntelliTube technology.

The company intends to replace the existing fluorescent lights reducing power consumption by half and will also replace incandescent bulbs using white, yellow, red and blue LED's saving 80 percent energy.

According to Roger Buelow, Energy Focus Chief Technology Officer and principal investigator for the ONR's SSL project, "LED lights particularly make sense on destroyers. The Navy calculates electrical energy costs at about 55 cents per kilowatt hour - or more than double the highest US residential or commercial rates. In addition, the lights we designed for the Navy are extremely vibration resistant - a problem for both incandescent and fluorescent bulbs that the conversion to our SSL LED lights solves."