The UN study suggests solar-powered lighting would significantly lower global carbon emissions The United Nations has carried out an assessment into the benefits of solar-powered lighting. The report which was carried out by the United ...
Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking Webcast: “Lighting Energy Efficiency in Parking” Campaign On Thursday, February 28, Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA) will hold a webcast on the Lighting ...
The market for photovoltaic (PV) inverter service plans and extended warranties is forecast to grow by 110% between 2012-2017, according to IHS. Despite PV inverter hardware profit margins being squeezed, the after-sales service market is ...
Solar demand for 2012 reached just 29.0GW, an increase of only 5% on year compared to 27.7GW in 2011, according to Solarbuzz. This is the first time in a decade that on-year market growth in the solar industry has been less than 10%. ...
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Rubicon Technology, a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, semiconductor, and optical industries, has reported financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012. The firm reported fourth ...
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Taiwan-based Csun Manufacturing has seen orders for LCD, PCB and semiconductor equipment rebound bringing the company's book-to-bill ratio to 1.5-1.8 recently, according to industry sources. In particular, orders for equipment used to ...
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Despite increasing competition, Europe-based lighting firm Philips reported an on-year revenue growth of 10.5% for its lighting business unit in 2012. In 2013, the business unit's revenues are predicted reach EUR8.78 billion (US$11 ...
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Cree extends the KR Series LED downlight portfolio, delivering greatly improved performance at pricing to match incumbent fluorescent downlights. With new lumen packages of up to 2650 delivered lumens, the KR Series replaces 18- to 42-watt ...
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Sharp has announced to add a 100W COB LED, known as GW7GAL50SGC LED to its Zenigata family. The new LED will output 14,000 lm, and achieve efficacy of 143 lm/W for SSL lighting applications such as street lights and high-bay lighting. ...
Rubicon Technology, Inc. has reported financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012. The Company reported fourth quarter revenue of $20.0 million as compared with $19.9 million in the prior quarter. Revenue from ...
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The China government was expected to announce the preliminary results of its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against polysilicon firms from the EU, US, and South Korea on February 20. However, according to China-based media, the ...
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UK - The beginning of AP Security's sixth year working at London's O2 Arena has seen the company as busy as ever. From television and music celebrities, basketball superstars and motorcycle madmen to children and dinosaurs, the company's ...
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Falling solar cell prices have been marginalizing concentrated solar power (CSP) products for years. But after the adoption of thermal energy storage (TES) using molten salt (which can increase the capacity factor of CSP) and using ...
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Webcast on Selection of LED Streetlight Luminaires Webcast on Successful Selection of LED Streetlight Luminaires: Optimizing Illumination and Economic Performance On Wednesday, March 6, DOE’s Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting ...
General lighting has become the largest market for packaged LEDs globally for the first time according to new data presented at the recent Strategies in Light (SIL) Conference in Santa Clara, California. Ella Shum, director of the LED ...
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