French designer Vivien Muller has created an ecofriendly solar mobile phone charger and LED lamp, Electree Mini, that resembles a bonsai tree. Solar mobile phone charger and LED lamp, Electree Mini. (Photo Courtesy of Viviene Muller) ...
Tags: Solar LED Tree, Mobile Phones
The engineer from famous China led warehouse lights manufacturer and supplier said that the inexpensive LED lighting products from China has quickly became hot selling goods from South Korea's major shopping malls and supermarkets. This ...
Tags: LED Lighting, LED Products
Taiwan-based polysilicon maker Powertec Energy has obtained equity investment of NT$700 million (US$23.2 million) from Taiwan's National Development Fund through private placement, according to the company. The investment will help ...
Tags: Polysilicon, telecom wire
April average retail price for 7W LED light bulbs (equivalent to 40W incandescent ones) in the China market rose by 5.9% on month to CNY35.9 (US$5.7), while 9W (equivalent to 60W incandescent) models saw an 1.4%, according to Digitimes ...
China-based maker GCL-Poly Energy Holdings produced 16,022 tonnes of polysilicon in the first quarter of 2014, increasing 7.5% on quarter and 85.2% on year, according to the company. With a large portion of polysilicon used in-house use ...
The U.S. Department of Energy's CALiPER program has released Report 21.1, which is part of a series of investigations on linear LED lamps. Report 21.1 focuses on the performance of 31 types of linear LED lamps operated in a typical 2x4 ...
Tags: LED, LED Lamp, Lights, Lighting, LED Lighting
AEC has won a contract to supply 84,000 lanterns for Milan’s new street lighting system. The company won the project through a tender process by A2A, a utility company that manages Milan’s electricity supply. The installation ...
Tags: Luminaires, energy saving LED
PV silver conductive paste is currently in short supply due to a shortage of silver powder. The shortage will continue until July-August 2014, chairman Chen Chi-jen of Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials said at a ...
Tags: PV Silver, Solar Materials
Solar wafer maker Gigastorage generated gross margin of 13.99% and net operating profit of NT$260 million (US$8.6 million) for the first quarter, while fellow maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) still suffered negative gross margin ...
Tags: Solar wafer, Gigastorage
While Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers have been generally shifting to, or increasing production of, monocrystalline solar cells to meet growing demand, Taiwan-based solar-grade crystalline silicon wafer makers are ...
China-based polysilicon maker Daqo New Energy has almost doubled its annual production capacity from 6,200 tonnes to 12,000 tonnes in an expansion project totaling US$22 million, and will invest another US$59 million to further expand ...
Tags: Polysilicon, Metallurgy, Mineral
LED driver IC vendor Macroblock has reported net profits of NT$34.44 million (US$1.14 million) for the first quarter of 2014, increasing 10.6% sequentially and 79% on year. The earnings translated into an EPS of NT$1.05 for the first ...
Sharp Solar returned to the top of the solar photovoltaic (PV) module shipment rankings during the first quarter of 2014, after a five year absence, according to Solarbuzz. Sharp was the solar PV industry market leader for 45 years ...
Tags: PV, Solar, PV Industry, PV Module
Demand for gallium is forecast to rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This strong growth is not, however, likely to result in any ...
Tags: Gallium Market, GaN-Based LED
Plymouth expects £1 million annual savings from LED street lighting upgrade Plymouth City Council has given the go-ahead for an £8 million street lighting upgrade as part of a wider energy and carbon dioxide saving programme. ...
Tags: Green Light, Greener Streets