Inspired by the Los Angeles street lighting upgrade, where many of the city's 140,000 high-pressure sodium (HPS) street lights were converted to Cree LED luminaires, San Luis Obispo in California has selected LED chip, lamp and lighting ...
Tags: LED street light, LED, Lighting, Lights
Moving towards being the largest show on Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Building Services, ACREX India 2014 ended on a high-note with around 50,000 visitors from all across the country. Organized by the Indian Society for Heating, ...
Tags: largest show, green development, conserve the environment
On a rooftop in the Bronx far from the skyscrapers of Manhattan, 4,760 panels soak up the winter rays. Welcome to the solar power boom in New York state. Robert Kline, director of commercial sales for the Ross Solar Group that installed ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Sundale Vineyards, a US-based table grapes grower, has commenced construction of a 1.13MW solar photovoltaic system, designed to power its cold storage plant. The company has selected Cenergy Power, a commercial solar integrator in ...
Tags: Cold Storage Plant, table grapes
Since 2010 the government began reducing corporation tax in stages, falling from 28% to 23%. This will be cut to 21% from April 2014 and will reach 20% in 2015. The small profits rate has also been cut to 20%. While the government ...
Today we have the announcement by DECC that EdF will construct the first of the new generation of nuclear plants in the UK. Should we welcome this decision? The contract for this project will provide an electricity price of ...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Energy
Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s (PolyU) Department of Electronic and Information Engineering has recently developed a high efficiency Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) LED driver that will allow LED lamps to become brighter and more ...
Tags: LED Efficiency, PMW Technology
The mining giant Rio Tinto announced to pour nearly €80 million in its Dunkirk aluminum plant in the past 18 months. It's learned that the company plans to invest at least that much again over the next five years on energy saving and ...
Tags: Aluminum Plant, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Royal Philips has announced it will phase out the supply of its trade range of incandescent Softone bulbs to its New Zealand electrical wholesalers from October 1. Philips is the first lighting company in New Zealand to make this move, ...
Tags: Philips, LED Lighting
LumiGrow announced today that Dutch Heritage Greenhouse, a leading provider of chrysanthemums and other cut flowers, chose 60 LumiGrow Pro 325™ LED greenhouse lights for its Chilliwack, British Columbia facility. By using Pro ...
Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France has installed a CPV demonstration plant in the isolated village of Usib near Rehoboth in central Namibia. The 25kW installation has been connected to the grid of ...
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When the whole world is struggling from rising electricity bill, photovoltaic panels have become a rescue. It is a breakthrough technology to generate electrical energy using sun light. Also, this technology is free from carbon footprint ...
Tags: Solar Modules, Energy
French law is making it illegal for firms to leave their lighting on overnight. Across many areas of the UK, nighttime switch-offs are being rolled out across the country, attracting a mixture of criticism and applause. However, what if you ...
Saving energy and saving money go hand in hand when it comes to your household, and this is especially true when it comes to lighting. There are many ways to make your lighting more efficient; they are very easy to do and no, you won't have ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Light Bulbs
April 22 marks the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day, when millions of Americans turn green or at the very least think about the environment. At Consumer Reports, green--in the form of fuel economy, energy efficiency, recycling, and many other ...
Tags: Energy-Saving Appliances, Consumer Electronics, Electronics