2012-08-16

It’s Necessary for Taiwan to Make New Smart Lighting Standards

Lately, Taiwan's lighting industry is in the process of making five new smart lighting standards, expecting to spur the creation of a highly integrated supply chain and improve its competitiveness in the fast growing LED sector. To maintain technological edge and overall value Approved by Taiwan's six major lighting associations and two state-funded institutes, the Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute, the five intelligent lighting system standards cover the areas of system functions, wide area networks, field...
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2012-08-16

London Olympic Games Ushers in a New Round of LED Lighting Boom

Audiences are pretty impressed by the visual feast created by thousands of LEDs in The London Olympic Games opening ceremony. And we can see that LED related products have played a key role in the recent important events. Currently, with the global environmental awareness is arising, the scale of LED application will enlarge, bring a good future for LED drive power. At present, with the development of LED technology, the products are becoming more and more diversified. LEDs are not only used in  stage engineering and display screen, but also in the outdoor r...
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2012-08-15

Best Case Scenario: GE Lighting Helps Grocery/Convenience Stores Slash Energy Costs for Refrigerated Display Cases

As grocery and food retailers continue to look for ways to increase profit margins by curbing costs, many are finding a solution in their refrigerated display cases. Replacing traditional fluorescent tubes in refrigerated display cases with energy-efficient LED fixtures from GE Lighting is adding up to hundreds of thousands of dollars* in annual savings. They also make products more attractive to shoppers by immersing food and beverages in crisp, white, uniform light. GE Lighting recently helped a large grocery chain and a convenience-store chain achieve these benefits by outf...
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2012-08-15

Russia LED Lighting Market will Occupy 1-5% in Global Market

Russian media quoted the data of the "whole series LED production business plan" from a professional marketing analysis company that, LED lighting proportion in the country is also growing as any other cities. In the long run, the proportion of Russia LED lighting market in the global market will be  1-5% and the growth rate of proportion in the country will reach 28-48% per year. Furthermore, the popularity of LED retrofit will break 300 million, and will continue to grow, mainly thanks to the energy efficiency and the expense of optimized power. Curren...
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2012-08-15

Spaulding Lighting Releases Detailed Case Study on LED illumination of an Automotive Dealership

Case Study highlights merging energy efficiency, environmental responsibility, and community friendly requirements into project design   Spaulding Lighting, a Hubbell Lighting Inc. brand, has announced the release of a new case study on illuminating a new Lee Toyota / Scion automotive dealership in Topsham, Maine with the latest in LED site lighting.  With a directive for a “green approach” from the dealership owner, Adam Lee, the case study reiterates the architect’s plan of designing a project that was environmentally responsible and as commu...
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2012-08-14

Cree’s LED Lighting Illuminates Seven Newport News Public Schools

Newport News Public School District in Virginia recently installed more than 185 Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) LED exterior luminaires, becoming the first Virginia school district in the area with a significant LED lighting installation. The district selected Cree THE EDGE® security, area and parking structure luminaires to illuminate the exteriors of seven schools: General Stanford Elementary, Greenwood Elementary, Lee Hall Elementary, Palmer Elementary, Crittenden Middle, Booker T. Washington Middle and Denbigh High. “These energy ef...
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2012-08-14

Historic Park around Los Angeles City Hall Turns Greener with LED Lighting

When the park surrounding Los Angeles City Hall reopened after eight months of repair work, sustainability and energy conservation were among a variety of articulated criteria for its restoration. City Hall Park was cordoned off by chain-link fence last year after police cleared hundreds of Occupy L.A. demonstrators who had camped on the lawn for nearly two months. “We were presented with a choice — Reinvest in a park that is greener, smarter and more sustainable,” proclaimed Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the official reopening ceremony in July. The ...
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2012-08-13

Taiwan Government to Unveil New Standards for Smart Lighting

According to Taiwan state-funded institute, the government is paving the way to announce newly established national standards for the smart lighting industry on Aug. 14, to expand demand and worldwide business opportunities. The Institute for Information Industry (III) pointed out that these standards are expected to improve the efficiency of lighting management, improve safety during nighttime activities, create energy-saving and a smart lighting environment, and explore high value-added business opportunities worldwide. The institute said that the five sets of standards fo...
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2012-08-10

Michigan Hospital Lights Parking Deck for $170,000 Less with GE LED Fixtures

Spectrum Health, one of Michigan’s largest not-for-profit health systems located in Grand Rapids, has an aggressive customer-centered sustainability program. When focusing on revamping their parking decks used by patients, visitors, and employees, they had three goals in mind: improve security, reduce maintenance costs and save energy. After retrofitting 1.25 million square feet of parking garage space and more than 3,500 parking spaces with 1,500 GE Evolve™ LED Garage fixtures  , Spectrum accomplished its three goals at the medical center.   Lighting ...
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2012-08-10

LED-made Olympic Rings Embrace Birmingham Airport

Birmingham Airport has installed GE Lighting’s 380 LEDs to celebrate London Olympic Games. The LEDs, as well as 38 LED modules, placed inside two sets of Olympic rings, have been installed on either side of the Air Traffic Control Tower. The LEDs were installed into the rings at ground level and then the entire structure was mounted onto the tower at a height of 135 feet in six days. The lighting is dimmable so the intensity of the white light produced can be adjusted accordingly. Manufactured and installed by design specialist Octink, each individua...
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2012-08-10

GE LED Fixtures Helps Ohio Hospital Reduce Energy Cost

Since 1892, Aultman has served Canton, Ohio, with exceptional health care services. In 2010, Stark County’s largest hospital and employer launched a project to serve patients and staff with exceptional new parking lot and parking deck illumination. Evolve™ LED lighting systems from GE Lighting proved the right prescription. Onlookers are remarking on an “incredible difference,” and Aultman found that it has delivered a healthy $13,000 annual energy cost savings to its campus.   The hospital first trialed GE’s Evolve LED Area Light...
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2012-08-10

Lustrous Zhaga products was accredited certification from UL

As the industry- leading brand of high Power COB LED manufacturer in Taiwan, Lustrous Technology Ltd., (4997TW) recently announced their Zhaga series products were accredited certification from UL in June, marks as the pilot of LED lighting industry in Asia Pacific region.   Considering Zhaga light engine is the future mainstream in LED lighting industry, In July 2010, Lustrous was registered as the first Taiwan regular member of Zhaga Consortium, investing great efforts and resources in developing Zhaga light engine products. This June, they proud...
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2012-08-09

Toyoda Gosei Recovers Its Q1 LED Revenue up to 55 Billion Yen

Toyoda Gosei has undergone a hard time in the first half of 2011, but its revenue firmed up till second half, to 4th quarter was fully restored. And yet its Q1 revenue of 2012 also keeps the very successful performance just like Q4 last year, even the company increase profit forecast for Q2. The LED department of Toyoda Gosei had hard time when Q3 of 2011 as well. Until the new LED product line which Saga factory lead in goes into MP and the demands of Tabled PC backlighting with LED potted elements increased, Q4 revenue recovered remarkably. Besides, the revenu...
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2012-08-09

Cooper Lighting's LED Innovation Center Recognized as DOE LED Lighting Facts® Approved Testing Laboratory Partner

Cooper Lighting’s Photometric Laboratory, part of its LED Innovation Center, has received U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) LED Lighting Facts®  Testing Laboratory Approval. Cooper Lighting is listed with LM-79 accreditation, the industry standard procedure for photometric and electrical measurements for solid-state lighting products. The DOE LED Lighting Facts program showcases LED products for general illumination from manufacturers who commit to testing products and reporting performance results according to industry standar...
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2012-08-09

LED Lighting Could Make Night Time Sky Bluer

According to a paper written by scientists in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, they used a new instrument to study how clouds affect sky brightness in urban areas, and how the future of LED lighting might change the night time sky. With Light pollution has become a growing problem, and skylines continue to grow, the night sky becomes dimmer and dimmer. However, researchers estimate that that night time sky could become bluer thanks to LED lighting. Christopher Kyba, physicist at the Freie Universität and lead author of the study, sa...
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2012-08-07

Lund Food Holdings Installs Sol Inc.’s LED Lightings for Energy Saving

Sol Inc., a provider of solar and grid powered LED outdoor lighting solutions, recently has provided Lund Food Holdings, Inc. with 12 high-intensity grid tied 20/20ª LED light systems combined with a solar powered 20/20ª system at the new Lunds supermarket located at 12th St. and Hennepin Ave. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "We were looking at every opportunity to incorporate sustainable technology as part of an effort to reduce the store's environmental impact while reducing energy use, and using Sol Inc.'s 20/20ª LED lighting helped us acc...
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2012-08-06

PhotonStar LED Makes Progress in Revenue for the first half of 2012

PhotonStar LED has made progress in its revenue for the first half of 2012 up to 30 June, with a 50 per cent increase. According to the company, its revenue rose to £3.82m from £2.54m for the same period in 2011. Gross profit also increased by 62 per cent to £1.51m, when compared to the revenue of the first half of last year, which saw a total of £0.93m being made. In addition, the company has set up two new facilities in first six months of 2012, with a commercial production plant for ChromaWhite products in Romsey and an LED fixtures manufacturi...
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2012-08-06

SmartWatt Energy’s LED Lighting Helps Iowa Cold Storage for Energy Saving

SmartWatt Energy has made a LED lighting upgrade at a 200,000 square foot facility in Iowa Cold Storage, a premier provider of temperature-controlled warehousing, logistics, and transportation for food products in the Midwestern United States, for saving over $30,000 per year in total lighting costs. Iowa Cold Storage is committed to providing their customers with convenient and reliable warehousing services, and is now focusing on reducing energy use, lowering energy costs and conserving environmental resources. SmartWatt Energy’s Chicago office staff performed a...
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2012-08-01

LED Lighting Driving Demand for New Phosphors

NanoMarkets has released a new white paper on LED phosphors, titled "LED Lighting Driving Demand for New Phosphors." According to the report, in the next several years, saturation will slow growth for LED-based backlighting, phosphor prices will fall, LED-per-unit values will be reduced, display demand will soften, and backlight-free display technologies like AMOLEDs will take over market share in smartphones/tablets and TVs. However, a major shift occurring in the lighting industry toward more-efficient, longer-lifetime, LED-based lighting...
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2012-08-01

Ernst & Young Installs Philips LED Lighting for Energy Saving

To go green, Ernst & Young LLP has enlisted the help of JAS consulting, Philips Lightolier Energy Services and lighting design firm One Lux Studio, to retrofit 32 floors of its US headquarters in New York City with LED lighting solutions from Philips. Ernst & Young LLP's Times Square office lighting system is heavily utilized by its more than 5,500 employees. With its traditional lighting system, the approximately 650,000 Useable Square Foot, Class A office space consumed roughly 6.2 million kWh annually. In contrast, the new LED l...
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2012-07-31

Sustainable London Olympic Games with GE Lighting

As a London 2012 Sustainability Partner and a Global Olympic 2012 sponsor, GE Lighting has worked alongside the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) to deliver a series of lighting projects. GE Lighting Europe has provided energy-saving and eco-friendly lighting solutions for permanent as well as temporary lighting installations for the 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games in London, United Kingdom. Their solutions will either continue to deliver energy savings for years to come or allow lamps to be re-used in projects around the city after...
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2012-07-30

Vistors’ Footsteps Outside London Olympics Stadium Light up LED Lamps

Outside the main stadium at the London Olympics, 20 circular slabs lie underfoot, ready to capture the kinetic energy from bustling spectators when they run, walk, and jump. With every step, the recycled-rubber tiles will light up nearby LED lamps for 30 seconds. The millions of steps expected to pound the pavement between the stadium and a new mall could make it worthwhile. With three days of battery storage, the system can provide electricity as crowds ebb and flow. PaveGen, which makes the tiles, hopes to eventually lay its slabs where they make major impacts, such as off...
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2012-07-30

LED Lighting Retrofit Makes Hawaii Most Beautiful Garage

Opened in late 2004, the Kailua Town Center Parking Garage was built to service a newer commercial district that today includes Long's Drug Store, California Pizza Kitchen and Whole Foods Supermarket. Starting in late 2011 and culminating in early 2012, the parking garage underwent a complete lighting retrofit. Increasing energy costs and environmental impact led Nishijima, Assistant Vice President-Asset Management of Kaneohe Ranch Management Ltd and his team to start considering LED fixtures as a solution to these challenges.   "We looked at...
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2012-07-27

US Department of Energy Recognised Next Gen as Leader in Agricultural LED Lighting

Daniel Poneman, the Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Energy, travelled to Arkansas to showcase the State’s Advanced Energy sector. The Deputy Secretary singled out NextGen Illumination, Inc. , a pioneer in the field of LED poultry lighting for its work in the agricultural, industrial and commercial sectors. Next Gen Illumination has worked diligently to bring an LED poultry lighting programme to Arkansas through the Department of Energy and the Arkansas State Energy Office. Next Gen Illumination serves the agricultural industry wit...
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2012-07-26

Delta Donates 150 LED Lightings to Rural Thailand

Delta Electronics Foundation has led a donation of 150 LED lighting kits to community centers and an elementary school in Chiang Mai and centers in Chiang Rai, northern Thailand to help solve lighting problems there. The donation, a joint effort by Delta and Taida, has helped improve the learning environment for children and alleviate the problem of inadequate lighting in that part of the country. And according to Hsu Wei-min, vice president at Taida Electronics Co., a subsidiary of Delta Electronics Inc., a Taiwan-based power management system supplier , the donat...
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2012-07-26

Seesmart Increases LED Production in US

Frustrated by the additional expense and difficulties with slower shipping, Seesmart Technologies (SEST) feels it is very important to have more control over the manufacturing process, as a result, it has intended to increase their production of LED lighting products in the United States. Combined with their desire to create jobs for US citizens, the company started building factories in Simi Valley, California, and Crystal Lake, Illinois. "When we do the numbers we're actually ahead manufacturing here instead of paying for air freight and dealing with the l...
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2012-07-25

GE LightingOffers the Right Brew to Korea’s Hollys Coffee

GE Lighting’s innovative LED solution was the right brew for Korea’s popular Hollys Coffee. The new ambient lighting at 18 Hollys Coffee branches across the country was sculptedwith GE’s Energy Smart LED PAR30light. This lightoffers superb quality for retail environments, complete with high energy efficiency and long life span. With the new lights, Hollys Coffee branches enjoylower energy consumption and maintenance costs whilst enhancing its customers’ experience. GE Lighting’s innovative energy-savingLED solution is the choic...
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2012-07-25

Seoul City Plans to Popularize LED Lightings in Public and Private Sector

According to Korean media, the capital city Seoul has scheduled to install more LED lamps in public, and encourages the private sector to further expand the scope of installation. LED products will be installed in public places including subway stations and streets. And the city government offices are planned to use LED lightings by the year of 2018, aiming for energy saving and promoting the development on LED lighting industry. In addition, the government also extends this plan to the private sector by the year of 2030. It’s estimated that there are 800000 pie...
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2012-07-24

Chinese LED Industry Could Benefit from New Subsidy Program

Chinese Ministry of Finance has restarted subsidies for LED industry. It’s reported that the total subsidy could reach 1 billion, and 30 to 50 bid winners can benefit from it. Early in February, China launched a program to subsidize the LED industry for products including indoor downlight LEDs, reflective self-ballasted lamps, outdoor LED streetlights, and tunnel lamps. However, due to the quotes prices from some companies were considered unreasonable, the program was halted. And in May, China launched new policy to promote energy-saving lighting and LED...
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2012-07-24

Get to know more about Light Bulbs and Lighting Systems

By Scott Watson To understand more about the LEDs lighting designs, there’s a need to dig into the background aspect of light bulbs and lighting systems.  For more than 100 years now, light bulbs have been in use all over the world.    Such bulbs have undergone series of   changes   through the ingenuity of several scientists across the world.  The technology of the light bulbs and lighting systems has always   improved from one level to the other.  Basically, the whole scenario about light bulbs can be unders...
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Tokushima, Japan - 6 March 2024: Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, has started mass production of the new UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs in its popular 434 Series packa... READ MORE

New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interested... READ MORE