Today, The Climate Group, which is hosting its annual Climate Week NYC, called on every single city and utility around the world to schedule the switch of their street lighting to LED by 2025 and launched its new major global campaign LED = ...
Tags: government policy, LED streetlight upgrade, The Climate Group
Cities and their emergency responders will soon have a new way to deploy gunshot detection technology and be able to respond to incidents and react faster to protect their residents. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between GE Lighting ...
Tags: GE, Lighting, MOU, smart LED streetlights, ShotSpotter, gunshot detection
Chinese manufacturers exported LED lighting goods to India for the first eight months of 2015 reached US $355 million, according to a DIGITIMES report. LED lighting exports to India soared 76.61% annually, broken down into different ...
Tags: LED, China, India market
The U.S. Department of Energy has released a GATEWAY report on the experiences of the City of Portland, OR, in converting its street lighting from high-pressure sodium to LED. Such large-scale conversions are rarely simple matters, and the ...
Tags: LED streetlight, DOE, Portland, GATEWAY report
Today at the IES Street & Area Lighting Conference, North America’s largest conference dedicated to improving the outdoor lighting business of electric utilities and energy service providers, Acuity Brands, through its subsidiary ...
Tags: Acuity Brands, Silver Spring Networks, smart LED streetlights
UK-based Plessey says that the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) has officially granted £6.7m towards the expansion of its facility in Plymouth, UK for manufacturing its MaGIC (Manufactured on GaN-on-Si I/C) gallium nitride on silicon LEDs. ...
Tags: LED Production, LED street
Around the world, people are seeing the LED streetlights that their city is installing, and many don’t like it. In this situation, there are two possible responses: living for a few decades with light you don’t like, or pushing ...
Tags: LED lamps, LED Lighting, LED streetlights
Royal Philips, the global leader in lighting, today announced that the City of Los Angeles (LA) will become the first city in the world to control its street lighting through an advanced Philips management system that uses mobile and ...
Tags: Philips, LED Streetlights, Lights
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) will complete replacement of mercury street lamps with LED models installing an additional 692,000 LED lamps around Taiwan by the end of 2016 at a procurement budget of NT$5.49 billion (US$175 ...
Tags: LED Street Lamps, LED Lamps
LED lighting markets in Europe, the US and Japan have gradually matured, and China is also entering a period of intense competition over pricing and scale. With the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community, LED vendors' attention on ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED
LED outdoor lighting, mainly LED street lamps and LED tunnel lamps, installed in China in 2014 had an estimated total market value of CNY14.7 billion (US$2.39 billion), growing on year by 22%, according to China-based research organization ...
Tags: LED outdoor lighting, street lamps
The market value of LED lamps installed for general lighting in the USA (including indoor & outdoor accent and functional lighting for residential, commercial and government areas) reached $1.22bn in 2014 and will grow strongly at average ...
Tags: LED Lamps, General Lighting
The global LED lighting market value in 2015 is estimated at US$29.908 billion, increasing on year by 24.8% and accounting for 27.2% of the 2015 global market value for all lighting products, according to Digitimes Research. LED light ...
Tags: LED lighting, LED
The installed base for 'smart' street light luminaires is set to grow rapidly, with network controlled nodes set to rise from two million at present to 40 million by 2019, finds ABI Research. "Alongside the energy savings, lifespan, and ...
There will be an estimated 186.017 billion high-brightness LED chips shipped globally in 2015, increasing on year by 32.6%, and the corresponding production value will grow much less by 7.5% to US$13.699 billion due to continued drops in ...
Tags: LED chips, LED lighting