The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the final report from a demonstration of LED roadway lighting conducted at three sites in Philadelphia, PA. The report provides a performance evaluation of 10 different LED ...
Companies to develop solutions integrating LED lighting in office furniture Philips and Haworth announced a cooperation to create workplaces designed to enhance employees' well-being in the office. As part of the cooperation, Philips, the ...
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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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The market for street lighting is in a period of dramatic transformation.New lamp options have recently become available for street lights,most notably light-emitting diodes(LEDs),and the advent of networked systems for central monitoring ...
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Toshiba has announced the release of two new LED luminaires for street and industrial lighting, the LGT LED Luminaire and the TSL LED Luminaire. In an effort to improve on current LED street and industrial light offerings, Toshiba ...
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Amidst much media buzz about efficient new lighting technologies and a general uproar about government light bulb "bans" worldwide, the most fundamental rule for saving energy on lighting seems to be fading: Make only as much of the right ...
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The market for street lighting is in a period of dramatic transformation. New lamp options have recently become available for street lights, most notably light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and the advent of networked systems for central ...
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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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Fifty years ago today, 33-year-old GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED), a device that GE colleagues at the time called "the magic one" because its light, unlike ...
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III. Bringing the Market to the Product At the same time the CFL was being developed into a marketable product, the energy efficiency industry was developing into a formidable market force. Many states had adopted legislative and ...
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This is the first in a three-part series of the behind-the-scenes story of the compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFL). A Brighter Idea: The Untold Story of the CFL, originally featured in the October 2012 issue of Electricity Journal, is a ...
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Attracting nearly one million visitors each year, the Grand Traverse County Civic Center is a multi-use facility encompassing roughly 45 acres, located in Traverse City, Mich. Although the site offers visitors many outdoor options, its ...
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The Municipality of Arnhem is to install Philips LED lighting on a large scale, in line with its ambitions in the area of sustainability. 2,300 street lights on the city's major roads are to be fitted with dimmable LED lamps. This measure ...
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Eurostar has launched the new LED Lighting Systems in partnership with Jiuzhou Greeble, one of the world's leading lighting solution providers. The Chinese manufacturer is known for its professional LED Lighting, LED Packing and LED Video ...
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On October 8th 2012, five environmental NGOs, Friends of Nature, The Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), Green Beagle, Envirofriends and Nanjing Green Stone have jointly released, in Beijing, the Phase II Cleaning up the ...
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