December average retail price for 7W LED light bulbs (equivalent to 40W incandescent ones) in the China market decreased by 8.7% on month to CNY35.7 (US$5.8), while that for 9W models (equivalent to 60W incandescent ones) decreased by 9.1% ...
Tags: LED Bulb Prices, mobile device, Lights
Global solar PV demand is forecast to grow by up to 25% in 2015, according to IHS. Due to the ongoing cost reductions for solar PV, IHS forecasts that installation demand will grow at a double-digit rate of 16-25% and installations in the ...
Tags: solar PV, low-concentration photovoltaic(LCPV)systems, Lights
GD Development, a PV EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor established by Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy, has announced the completion of a rooftop PV system at Kaohsiung International Airport and another at ...
The overall PV market price in the first quarter of 2015 is expected to remain constant until the end of the Lunar New Year. Afterwards, shipment demand will decrease and pricing will drop. The beginning of the holiday season in China meets ...
Tags: solar energy, Lights
The US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is awarding the 2015 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Isamu Akasaki, M. George Craford, Russell Dupuis, Nick Holonyak Jr and Shuji Nakamura for “the invention, development, and ...
Tags: LED Lighting, diode applications, Electrical
New Road Lighting Book In 1980 the book “Road Lighting”, written by Prof de Boer and Wout van Bommel was published in the series “Philips Lighting Library”. It was regarded as the ‘road lighting bible’ ...
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Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials is expected to see orders from China grow, as a result of the US decision to reduce antitrust tariffs it set in 2012 for China-made PV modules, according to industry observers. ...
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The US government has finished reviewing tariff rates imposed in 2012 on PV modules imported from China and decided to reduce the anti-dumping rates to an average of 1.82% and anti-subsidization rates to an average of 15.68%. The total ...
LED packaging service provider Unity Opto Technology has seen booming orders for LED lighting from the US and Europe with shipments scheduled through March 2015, the company said. Thus, Unity Opto is expected to ship 30-40 million LED light ...
Tags: LED Light, LED backlighting, Lights
In the Western traditional festival --- Christmas, Christmas lights are widely used and add a lot of festive atmosphere, many of which are from China. As a competitive Chinese manufacturer, Minleon Group is the most popular Christmas ...
Tags: Minleon Group, Christmas lights, LED decorative lighting solution, LED
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has spelt out new guideline for improving China's PV industry, looking to have leading makers merge with small ones, or form strategic alliances in 2015-2017. MIIT hopes the ...
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will form a strategic partnership with LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar by having its subsidiary, TSMC Solid State Lighting, sell MOCVD sets to Epistar and then acquiring new ...
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Everlight Electronics aims to turn its LED lighting business from losses to profits in 2015 with an on-year growth of 50% in revenues, according to the company. The LED packaging firm established a wholly-owned subsidiary, Everlight ...
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The US government has finished reviewing anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariff rates imposed in 2012 on PV modules imported from China and decided to reduce the former rates to an average of 1.82% and the latter to an average of ...
Tags: China-Made PV Modules, Lights
After improving for two months in a row in October and November, NEMA’s Electroindustry Business Conditions Index (EBCI) for current conditions in North America declined in December, falling to 50.0. One-quarter of December’s ...
Tags: business environment, Lights