Ikea announced earlier this month that it will switch to selling only LED bulbs and lamps by 2016, becoming the first U.S. home furnishing retailer to do so. The announcement is fitting, as LED lighting technology celebrates its 50th ...
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The photometric testing laboratory of Edison Opto, Taiwan's leading LED manufacturer, has become the first in Taiwan to receive certifications in both safety and lasting performance. Edison Opto is also a standout in the area of LED LM-80 ...
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Energy efficiency is becoming a way of life at more than 9,600 assets that the GSA owns or rents. The U.S. General Services Administration has the benefit of a lot of space to play around with. On the downside, all that space means ...
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Three models of Orion Energy Systems' LED fixture were recently added to the DesignLights™ Consortium Qualified Products List after third-party testing resulted in a 96.57 lumens per watt rating for Orion's LED high bay fixture. ...
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By the end of this month, some 10,000 household electricity consumers in the first district of Oriental Mindoro will be enjoying the opportunity of using free compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). The office of Oriental Mindoro Congressman ...
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Although it's always prudent to discuss the dangers of playing with matches and the importance of changing the batteries in our smoke detectors during Fire Prevention Week, local fire officials are warning about a new danger this year. ...
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The Leaf’s slim profile and LED energy efficiency gives you that alternative commercial lighting edge. The Leaf’s backlight display technology kicks those old LED designs out the door, by internally distributing light and ...
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Intelligent LED Lighting One of Many Sustainability-Focused Technologies Implemented in New Construction Digital Lumens announced that Ben E. Keith Foods, the eighth largest institutional foodservice distributor in the nation, has ...
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Facebook is to open a"cold storage"facility at its datacentre in Prineville,Oregon,to provide a lower cost repository for its users'old and infrequently accessed photographs and videos. Further reading The shape of datacentres to ...
“We should avail of the opportunity and switch to solar energy to overcome the energy crisis, ” he stressed while speaking at the International Exhibition and Conference on Alternative Energy and Energy Efficiency, organised by ...
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October marks the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the LED (light-emitting diode) by General Electric's Nick Holonyak, father of the GaAsP visible LED. That decade-old innovation in the lab is finally about to seriously disrupt ...
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Datacentres are still running at below 20oC wasting electricity although the optimum temperature for operating them is 25-26oC, experts have said. "Many datacentres operate at cooler temperatures than necessary because customers are not ...
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Partners of the European "Solutions for Energy Efficient Lighting (SEEL)" project achieve decisive research successes with HID and LED lamps Partner companies of the "Solutions for Energy Efficient Lighting (SEEL)" project supported on ...
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The EBRD is actively promoting the use of renewable energy in Ukraine in order to reduce the country’s dependence on imported fossil fuel and to improve its energy security. The latest initiative of the Bank, which is aimed at solar ...
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V. Sealing the Deal: Federal Standards In January 2012, a federal standard became effective that requires all light bulbs sold in the United States to be 28 percent more efficient than a normal incandescent light bulb, and to continue to ...
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