Taiwanese LED chip manufacturer Yang Hwa Technology owner Shih-Hsiung Chan was detained by police on Sept. 11, 2015 for suspected accounting fraud and market manipulation, according to a report by China Times. In mid-June, Chan was ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy has released a new report on the comprehensive street lighting restoration currently being undertaken by the City of Detroit, which includes transitioning the existing high-pressure sodium (HPS) sources to LED. ...
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When GE sold its home appliance division in September 2014 for US $3.3 billion to Swedish company Electrolux, market rumors surfaced that the company might sell its lighting business too. The company denied intentions of selling its century ...
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Kingston is a city nicknamed as K-Town in Ulster County, New York, U.S. The Common Council approved the city’s borrowing of US$ 2.1 million to install LED streetlights throughout the city. Early on, the council approved borrowing US$ ...
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Jules Verne said in Around the World in 80 Days: “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.” Today, that is truer than ever before. Did you ever think it would be possible to communicate so easily with anyone around ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The market for connected street lighting is currently worth around US$104 million, but with global shipments of connected street lights expected to increase four-fold over the next five years, the market is estimated to reach almost US$450 ...
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The street light market is undergoing a rapid transition from conventional technologies, such as high pressure sodium, to LED lights. Although high pressure sodium lights remain the biggest sellers today, some companies are already planning ...
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Residents on a street in the west London borough of Hounslow are complaining that new LED street lamps are so bright that they are affecting their quality of life. The 8-metre tall columns were installed on Whitehall Park Road in the ...
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Today, the LED lighting experts at LEDtronics®, Inc., www.LEDtronics.com, announced that their LED Cobraheads Streetlight Fixtures helped NRG reduce energy consumption by over 72% and decrease light pollution in the local area. LED ...
Good government policies can help propel an industry forward but bad ones can hinder development. Although China’s policies are aimed at developing the LED industry, the subsidies have gotten out of control recently, said LEDinside ...
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LED manufacturers are becoming increasingly lost in a flourishing market, with each searching for the road to transformation, according to an article by Guangming Daily. Lighting industry leader, NVC Lighting Chairman Wu Changjiang shares ...
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During the Strategies in Light Europe Investor Forum, TSMC discussed its phosphor-on-die approach to LEDs while Seoul Semiconductor discussed the market opportunity and homogenous substrate development. The Strategies in Light (SIL) ...
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Streetlights in the Big Apple are getting a major makeover to more energy efficient LEDs, according to reports by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and Newsday. New York will be replacing 250,000 street lights with LED lamps by 2017, said the city ...
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