Elemental LED recently added a second regular contributor to its company blog. Michael Gutman began blogging twice per week at the start of August 2011 for Elemental LED on topics that focus on San Francisco Bay Area green businesses and sustainability news and progress. Gutman's recent blog topics have included how green energy accreditations have impacted some Bay Area companies, and a green organization profile about The Ecology Center in Berkeley. Upcoming topics include environmental news about San Francisco, Oakland and California job creation. The...

Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, is pleased to announce that its acculamp™ AR111 LED Lamp has received TheLEDAward for Best Specialty Incandescent Replacement Lamp at the recently concluded “TheLEDShow” 2011 in Las Vegas. “TheLEDShow” has become an annual event showcasing the lighting industry’s technology progress and expanding selection of products with LED light sources. TheLEDAward was established to recognize participating LED manufacturers tha...

When Daybreak, a UK TV ‘breakfast show,’ was launched at the end of last year, it was with a flourish. Not only did the station spend a great deal of money enticing stars from other channels but they knew the set needed to look great.   The studio, on the south bank of London’s River Thames, has windows on three sides, facing iconic St Paul’s Cathedral. In the winter it’s dark out when Daybreak comes on air at 6:00am, but gradually it gets brighter (until full sunlight potentially streams through the windows) by the program’s end at ...

GT Solar has announced its name change to GT Advanced Technologies Inc.,and  the company is now trading under its new GTAT stock ticker symbol on NASDAQ. According to Tom Gutierrez, GT Advanced Technologies’ president and CEO,“Our transition from GT Solar to GT Advanced Technologies reflects our broader strategic market focus. We are growing beyond our historic focus on the solar industry to include other growth markets such as the LED industry. We also continue to look for strategic expansion opportunities into other adjacent marke...

Recently, General Nutrition Centers (GNC) has adopted Science Group's  high-performance and ultra-efficient LED bulbs at its corporate owned locations across the country. It’s said that the ENERGY STAR® qualified LED bulbs now lighting GNC retail display shelves are approximately 80% more efficient than the halogen bulbs they replace, are fully dimmable and have approximately 50% more lumens than competing products. Asides from that , the stores will also save money on maintenance and cooling costs, since the company's bulbs will last 5...

AVX Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced passive components and interconnect solutions, has developed two new series of connectors for LED lighting systems that maintain the same luminosity and light intensity as florescent strip lights. The standard length of most fluorescent lights is 1.2m, and currently it is impossible to reflow-mount LEDs on such a long printed circuit board placed in the fitting. As a result, the lighting strip is divided into shorter lengths joined by connectors. AVX's new 9608 Series LED lighting connector and 9609 Series LED backlight c...

Lumenpulse, a manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments based in Montreal and Boston, announced today that it has completed a $16 million Series A equity and debt round, which includes a loan and line of credit from Silicon Valley Bank. Participants in the equity portion of the filing included the company’s management, the board of directors and private investors. Founded in 2006, Lumenpulse is establishing a leadership position within the LED fixtures market based on significan...

Illumitex, Inc. announced today that it has signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement with Gerard Lighting Group Limited(ASX:GLG). In addition, GLG has invested $3 million into Illumitex for a small minority interest as part of the LED company’s latest round of private equity financing. Under the strategic agreement, effective immediately, GLG will become the exclusive general lighting integrator and distributor of Illumitex’s innovative LED products in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. “Gerard Lighting’s commitmen...

Sharp Corp announced new products of LED ceiling lights and LED light bulbs with enhanced efficiencies, etc Aug 5, 2011. The company will release the LED ceiling lights and E17-base small LED light bulbs Aug 27, 2011, and E26-base LED light bulbs Sept 23, 2011. Improved efficiencies of LED ceiling lights Sharp announced three types of LED ceiling lights, and their input powers and installed fluxes are 73W and 5,750lm (up to a 12-mat (19.44m2) room), 48W and 3,750lm (up to an eight-mat room) and 32W and 2,600lm (up to a six-mat room). The luminou...

Design-Fulfillment Distributor is Positioned to Deliver Greatest Lineup of Lighting Solutions Mouser Electronics, Inc., a top design engineering resource and global distributor for semiconductors and electronic components, today announced that it has signed a global distribution agreement with Cree, a worldwide leader in LED lighting and silicon carbide (SiC) power products. The global agreement enables lighting designers worldwide to quickly find, compare, select, and order Cree’s latest products, including their innovative line of lighting-class XLamp®...

12th annual conference takes place October 24-26 to San Diego, CA Hundreds of lighting professionals will gather at the 12th installment of IntertechPira’s industry leading LEDs conference and exhibition to hear from Cree, OSRAM, Philips and more.  LEDs 2011: Bringing Lighting to Life will be held at the Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa from October 24-26, 2011 in San Diego, California, US and will provide three full days of coverage of the latest technology, applications and end uses, lighting design and luminaires and market expectations an...

Due to the trend in 2011, the new generation of LED light equipment requires better light quality control systems and higher energy efficiency. With the solidification of industry specifications and standards, what will unfold in the future of LED lighting? LEDinside conducted an interview with Roland W. Koch, Ph.D., industry expert and the Global Sales Manager of Tridonic. With abundant experience in the American, European, and Asian markets under his belt, he was able to shed some light on both the development of driver ICs and LED controllers and pressing issues regarding LED control system and LED light product criteria.

Recently, Philips Lighting North America has won The Department of Energy’s L Prize for the 60-watt replacement bulb category of the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition. the Philips LED bulb was submitted in 2009, and successfully completed 18 months of demanding field, lab, and product testing to meet the rigorous requirements of the L Prize competition. Zia Eftekhar, CEO of Philips Lighting North America,believed that the L Prize challenge as an opportunity to innovate and develop an energy efficient alternative to a product tha...

Evluma announces plans to expand its product line beyond the popular 40W & 50W outdoor dusk-till-dawn Clearlight and intends to enter the indoor lighting market with a dimmable LED PAR 64 ceiling light designed. Prototypes of the PAR 64 LED lamp, plus a Clearlight horticultural lamp, a low pressure sodium equivalent lamp, and an acorn fixture LED Retrofit with multiple mounting options were demonstrated at The LED Show on July 27, 2011 in Las Vegas. Evluma anticipates the announcement of formal release dates for these new products in 2012. Testing and pilo...

Reportedly, Lebelight Technology Co. Ltd, a high power LED company from Xiaoyi, Shanxi of China has set up a new record on cutting-edge product 150 lm 1w LED on 12th, July 2011. 1w of its green lighting products needs only 350 mA of drive current to achieve 150-160 Luminous Flux, which has increased the world record by 70% and also reduced the cost in producing the same quantity of products. It’s said that this development is another world-famous breakthrough of Lebelight since its white lighting LEDs reached 98 lm on 3rd November 2010. It indicates that ...

Recently,Philips Automotive Lighting North America has launched two new versions of its Daytime Running Light -- LED DayLight 8 and 4. According to the company, its LED DayLight 8 and 4 are equipped with Philips LUXEON(R) Rebel LEDs and are SAE and DOT compliant. Moreover, these stylish, energy efficient solutions are the slimmest DRL modules on the market. Both of them give vehicles a distinctive appearance setting the driver apart from the crowd. Philips DRLs substantially increase the visibility of the car to other drivers and pedestria...

Research has found LEDs are comparable not only in brightness to the old incandescents, but much more efficient than even compact fluorescent lights. LEDs are also built to last 15 years, compared to five years for CFLs and one for incandescents. "The LEDs are costly now, but the price is dropping very rapidly. So we have a very bright and cool and thrifty future," Chu says. Supporters say saving $10 to $11 a year in energy costs more than makes up for the initial outlay. Analysts expect LEDs to drop to $20 a bulb within two years, which is about wh...

Four different vendors are providing LED, or LEDs, for the city to test on the south side of the Claude Allouez Bridge. The energy-efficient lights cut energy usage in half and last two to four times longer than the traditional metal halide lamps. City workers could begin taking down the test LEDs as early as next week as the three-month trial comes to an end. But officials are taking notice of the advantages they provide and hope to replace the entire bridge with LED technology by 2012, assistant city engineer Karen Heyrman said. The traditional light fixtures on...

Ushio Lighting Inc launches an LED spotlight that general color rendering index(Ra) is as high as 97 on Aug 5,2011, in Japan. The spotlight named “Cool Spot LED” is aimed for facilities in hotels and halls. It has lower consumption and longer product life that compared with spotlight using halogen lamps. Ushio Lighting employed the "Natural Light LED" for the light source of the spotlight, which is a white LED made by combining a purple LED chip and red, green and blue fluorescent materials. Among 15 kinds of color rendering indexe...

Energy Focus has been awarded a $23 million Navy supply contract to provide LED fixtures and its proprietary IntelliTube LED lamps for use on the U.S. Navy fleet. "EFOI's advances in LED technology will allow the Navy to save 50-90% of their lighting energy cost," said Roger Buelow, Energy Focus CTO. The majority of the contract includes sales of fixtures using the company's new IntelliTube(TM) lamps, which are intelligent plug and play LED lamps to replace the existing linear fluorescent tube lamps used in most of the Navy's ...

Lunera is borrowing a page from California's fast-growing rooftop solar industry. On Thursday, it plans to unveil a lease-to-purchase program that lets commercial building owners retrofit their lighting for no money down. The lease is believed to be the first in the commercial lighting sector. Lunera offers a five-year lease-to-purchase agreement with fixed monthly payments. The tenant or building owner owns the lighting fixtures, which means they, not Lunera, reap the benefits of tax depreciation. Lunera sees a strong market for its lease in cities along the East and We...

Bridgelux Inc. has raised $60 million in a Series E round of venture capital funding. They would use the money to accelerate R&D in key areas including GaN-on-Silicon development and LED chip-on-board packaging. "Craton Equity Partners is a top growth-stage investor in clean tech, and we welcome their support as we work to expand the market for solid state solutions for general lighting - which we expect to triple this year to over $3 billion," said Bill Watkins, Bridgelux's CEO, in a statement issued by Craton....

Kyma’s  new n+ GaN substrate product line will boast a bulk resistivity specification of  < 0.02 Ω -cm, which is two orders of magnitude lower in resistivity than Kyma’s previously offered n-type GaN. What’s more, Kyma has successfully produced n+ bulk GaN wafers with measured carrier concentrations of up to 6 x 1018cm-3and corresponding bulk resistivities of < 0.005 Ω –cm.  The firm’s n-type GaN product is still being offered and, for distinction, is being relabelled as n- GaN (“nminus” GaN). I...

Lumenpulse Inc. , a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today released a customer case study focused on a project for the Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Gilbert, AZ. Lumenpulse fixtures were used to illuminate a 60-foot high, metal tower over the soon-to-be main entrance of the facility, to create the ‘Lantern of Hope’. The center, due to officially open in September 2011, set a design goal of transforming the metal tower structure into ...

More than 100 new manufacturing jobs are one step closer to Bettendorf. That's as a developer plans to create an LED lighting plant. Doug Borgeson, BEM Lighthouse Development, decided to reverse the trend that companies went overseas. The company found Bettendorf by way of Finland and Florida. It plans a $10 million project to create nearly 140 jobs in Bettendorf. Jobs, which could have gone to China, will instead pay local employees nearly $17 an hour. The project comes at a time when Iowa is looking to grow manufacturing jobs. Replacing corn with constr...

Cree revealed a new LED light bulb that boasts the same output as a 75-watt incandescent bulb while consuming about one tenth of the electricity. The bulb produces 152 lumens, producing around 1,300 lumens using Cree’s new “TrueWhite” technology, exceeds the performance goals set by the U.S. Department of Energy’s L Prize competition. They could reduce energy usage in the United States by 16.5 percent. Cree did not indicate how much the new light bulb would cost. In general, LED lighting is still much too expensive for typical consumers ...

Korea, Japan, and China appear to have the solutions to see steady and positive proliferation of LED lighting products, key price points could trigger real commercial demand. “The rapid increase in the market for LEDs used in various applications such as notebook backlights and automobile headlights is spurring heavy capital investments by LED makers”, noted Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network. “LEDs are creating a niche market for conventional suppliers of semiconductor processing tools and a lucrative market for MOCVD suppl...

Recently, Cree has revealed a new XLamp XT-E Royal Blue LED, which is optimized for use in remote-phosphor lighting and other applications with similar requirements. XLamp XT-E Royal Blue LED Cree says its new XLamp XT-E LED delivers the industry’s tightest wavelength bins to simplify remote-phosphor designs and lower system costs. What’s more, Cree is announcing a remote-phosphor-component patent licensing program, providing access to Cree’s pioneering remote-phosphor patents. The program is to drive the LED lighting revolu...

Hyderabad-based MIC Electronics Ltd, a manufacturer of LED lighting and display systems, is reportedly set to enter the fast-growing LED lighting retail segment. According to reports, the company would take a call on pan-India retail plans in its board meet scheduled to be held on August 5, and the company would initially focus on the southern market. Reports quoted CMD MV Ramana Rao as saying that, “We are currently utilising Rs. 50 crore worth of production. The new expansion is going as scheduled and will take a year from now to go for mass production...

Beacon Products, a division of Hubbell Lighting, a market leader in innovative lighting technology, design, and manufacturing for over 120 years, has recently completed a LED outdoor lighting fixture retrofit project for the City of Carmel, Indiana. Turned to Bradenton, FL based Beacon Products for guidance and ultimately the installation of its LED Retrofit Kit with Direct V Optics in all 800 of its downtown decorative post top lighting fixtures. After evaluating the options, including a test installation, it was determined that employing Beacon Products LE...