Report releases that Lighting Science Group has supplied LED bulbs for over a quarter of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 houses.   Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Old Dominion University and Hampton University, Middlebury College, The Southern California Institute of Architecture and California Institute of Technology, and Florida International University have spent nearly two years creating houses that blend affordability, consumer appea...

Officials of the Guangdong Provincial Government stated that they are working towards the goal that by 2015, LED lighting will make up 30% of the interior lighting in Guangdong. Street lighting is the breaking point for the government to popularize LED lighting: in the next two years, there will be over 600 thousand LED street lamps lightening up the night sky of the Pearl River Delta. The government will implement the LED plan starting in 2012 and aims to increase the penetration rate of LED in interior lighting to 30% by 2015. At the moment, there are 200 tho...

2230 SERIES, 6430 SERIES and 6830 SERIES Designed for Low Voltage DC Control Systems Lunera® Lighting, Inc. a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, announced today the commercial availability of Lunera’s luminaires to be factory configured for compatibility with Redwood Systems control solutions. By using Lunera’s new fixture series in tandem with the Redwood Systems low voltage lighting control and building intelligence platform, the combined system will provide facility manager...

New energy efficiency standards, set to become effective as of January 1st, 2012, are expected to phase out incandescent lightbulbs. Although the law does not expressly ban the use of incandescent lightbulbs, it does require lightbulbs to be 25 to 30 percent and at least 60 percent more efficient by 2014 and 2020, respectively, which will effectively eliminate the bulbs falling short of the standards. However, specialty bulbs, three-way bulbs, chandelier bulbs, refrigerator bulbs, plant grow lights and others will not be restricted by the new law. A lot of consumers are not happy ...

Reportedly, Seattle City Light (SCL) has started to the old high-pressure sodium streetlamps with new LED lights in Shoreline and Lake Forest Park on Sept. 20. The newer LED technology uses approximately 48 percent less energy than current high-pressure sodium lights, and they are expected to last at least three times as long. The project cost, which was originally estimated at between $25-24 million, has dropped in the last year to $20 million for all 41,000 residential street lamps. A small portion of this cost will be covered by federal stimulus funds and SLC w...

Seesmart, Inc., a division of Seesmart Holdings, Inc.,has completed LED retrofit in a global supplier of eyewear, Zyloware Eyewear’s, new 50,000 square foot facility based in Westchester County, New York. The retrofit began at the end of last year and now Zyloware's offices and distribution center shine with 700 clean, energy-efficient Seesmart LEDs. Seesmart's LED lighting is 50%+ more efficient than fluorescent lighting and is rated for up to 50,000 hours of operation. LEDs produce far less heat than fluorescents, decreasing the demand on air con...

Sources inform that Lighting Science Group (LSG) will cooperate with BSES Rajdhani Power in the area of LED lighting. Both LSG and power distribution company BSES Rajdhani have entered into an agreement for the collaboration, where the two entities would "explore avenues to demonstrate and promote energy efficiency using the next generation LED lighting". According to BSES Rajdhani CEO Gopal Saxena said in a statement, scope of the association would also involve conducting field trials of various LED based lighting options, such as ma...

Taiwan’s LED manufacturer EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., recently has ordered AIXTRON CRIUS II-L MOCVD system in a 69x2-inch wafer configuration,for the volume production of ultra-high brightness (UHB) Gallium Nitride (GaN) based blue LEDs. The system was ordered in the second quarter of 2011 and following delivery in the third quarter of 2011, will be installed and commissioned by a local AIXTRON service team in EpiLEDs’ state-of-the-art facility in Tainan, Taiwan. Steve Ku, President of EpiLEDs Technologies Inc., ...

Source inform that Aixtron, has slashed its sales guidance for 2011 and reduced its order backlog by €100 million, based on talks with its Asian customers revealed increasing macro-economic concerns. Previously, Aixtron’s target was  €800 million-€900 million.However, it now expects to post sales of between €600 million and €650 million. With the average cost of a piece of MOCVD kit around €2-2.5 million, the new guidance suggests that Aixtron has cut its shipment expectations for 2011 by as many as one hundreds units. It may has a...

Reportedly, Chip One Stop, Inc. has come to an agreement with Nichia on the patent infringement litigation regarding Nichia's patent No. 4530094 ("patent No. 094") that had been pending in Tokyo District Court by settlement out of court. Chip One has acknowledged that the white LED products (product number: GT 3528 series) manufactured by Everlight and sold by Chip One falls within the scope of the claim of patent No. 094, and agreed to terminate the sale of all white LED products manufactured by Everlight and to respect Nichia's intellectual ...

NexPhase Lighting, Inc., the subsidiary of Onteco Corporation, has completed LM79 testing for its Linear LED Luminaire Series No. COV20BMB41. Ty Ramsey, COO of NexPhase, stated, "We have completed an important milestone in establishing our NexPhase products as clearly 'best of class' and well ahead of the competition. Today, we received testing completion notification from CSA, our independent LM79 testing lab, that our Linear LED Luminaire Series No. COV20BMB41, has successfully completed all LM79 testing. What this means ...

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Energy Costs Reduced by Nearly 67 Percent with Cree XLamp® LEDs at California Waste Connections Facility In a move to improve lighting quality and safety at its Cold Canyon Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE: WCN) upgraded its lighting system with Cree-powered Xeralux LED high-bay fixtures. The Xeralux fixtures feature Cree (Nasdaq: CREE) XLamp® XP-G LEDs, helping Waste Connections reduce its energy costs by almost two-thirds and nearly eliminating its maintenance c...

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The first day's sessions will cover the LED upstream material, equipment, and epitaxy sectors. World’s leading equipment makers, such as KLA-Tencor, ULVAC, and MOCVD equipment makers Veeco and Aixtron, are invited to explain how LED equipment can contribute to LED quality enhancement and cost reduction.

Accoding to Taiwan major LED manufacture Epistar and Everlight , LED Lighting is likely to play a key role over the next two years. Recently , J.Y. Fan, a vice president of Epistar, said at the SEMI Taiwan 2011, that the oversupply will compel LED makers to shift application emphasis to lighting, which is considered much more profitable as its market remains in the infant stage. Also, excessive supplies have driven down prices of LED devices, thereby reducing production costs of lighting products. Fan’s estimate revised previous thoughts that lighting...

Seesmart, Inc.,has received a $1.2 million order in LED tube lights from The United States General Services Administration (GSA) for lighting retrofit project . The order constitutes the single largest purchase of LED tube lights ever made by the GSA, whose latest lighting retrofit project will span 18 buildings across 2 U.S. states. The Seesmart LED tube lights will replace fluorescent lighting in GSA buildings, saving the Administration approximately $400,000 annually in energy costs. Also, Seesmart products will cut the lighting energy consumption o...

Philips has added new UrbanScape and MetroScape to the broad line-up of its outdoor LED luminaires which offer cities and municipalities sustainable, energy-efficient solutions with all the benefits of Philips LUXEON high-power LEDs. According to Philips, UrbanScape and MetroScape offer flexible solutions that can reduce energy consumption by 40-60 percent over High Intensity Discharge  alternatives and provide a rated life of 100,000 hours. UrbanScape is designed to create a fresh modern and minimalistic look for urban projects. And MetroScape is a...

It’s reported that Coca-Cola (Japan) Co., Ltd., its 12 bottling partners and other affiliates of the Coca Cola system in Japan have scheduled to bring in LED lighting for vending machines in product displays for all new purchases of machines for beverage products in cans and PET bottles, starting from 2012. It was made under the Coca-Cola system's global business guiding principle, "Live Positively," and as part of its environmental initiatives for a sustainable society. The Coca-Cola system has cooperated with voluntary action plans of the so...

Reportedly, Panasonic Idemitsu OLED Lighting (PIOL) Co Ltd, a JVof Panasonic Electric Works Co Ltd and Idemitsu Kosan Co Ltd, has kicked off shipping an OLED lighting panel in the Japanese and overseas markets Sept 1, 2011. According to the company, the general color rendering index (Ra) of the OLED panel is 90 or higher, which is claimed as one of the world's highest for a mass-produced OLED panel. The OLED lighting panel has a size of 97 x 90mm, a thickness of 2.11mm and a weight of 38g. The area of its light-emitting part is 80 x 80mm...

San Francisco Bay Area-based lighting company Elemental LED have joined Philips' LED luminaires licensing program which grants Elemental LED access to a portfolio of patents related to Philips' LED lighting systems and controls. According to Elemental LED , the Elemental LED engineering department designed several new products in the past year that met consumer demand for higher quality and ease of use, including a Dimmable LED Puck Light, the wall-mounted 12V LED Reign Dimmer Switch, and the portable Apollo DMX LED Color Controll...

Due to low demand in the large-size backlight market in 1H11, LEDinside expects many manufacturers to turn their main focus to lighting products in 2H11. The phrase “replacing traditional lighting” takes on new meaning as the industry develops in a new direction. As for LED replacement of traditional lighting, North America, Europe, and China are currently showing the most rapid progress.

Sources imform that Europe’s households have set off widely banning inefficient 60 watt light bulbs from 1 September 2011. The inefficient 60 watt light bulbs are being taken place of compact fluorescent light bulbs ( CFLs ) and light emitting diode lamps ( LEDs ). Halogen lights will remain on the shelves but are only marginally more efficient than incandescent bulbs. Europeans will be able to choose lamps which are at least 75% more efficient than old light bulbs and last at least seven times longer. According to Greenpeace EU energy policy adviser Frauke T...

Backlight module and lighting are two main applications of LED. However, in light of the weak demand in large-size backlight market in 1H11, the revenues of LED manufacturers plummet 20% compared to last year. LEDinside expects LED makers to shift their focuses to the lighting market; “a replacement for traditional lighting” becomes another development path for the LED industry.

It’s reported that Nichia has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against white LED products of Taiwan LED manufacturer Everlight On Aug. 31, 2011 . In Tokyo District Court, the Japanse company has filed a patent infringement lawsuit to enjoin Chip One Stop, Inc. from infringing Nichia's patent (No. 4530094, or "patent No. 094") with regard to white LED products (product number: GT 3528 series) manufactured by Everlight, and imported and sold by Chip One....

It’s said that The Republic Group Handelsvertretung GmbH (TRG) has been demanded to pay € 5,000 for not complying with Nichia. Date back to January 18, 2011,the District Court Düsseldorf in Germany ordered TRG to comply with Nichia’s claims upon TRG’s acknowledgement. According to the court, TRG was requested to cease and desist from offering for sale, placing on the market or using, or importing or possessing for any of the aforesaid purposes in Germany regarding specific white LED products covered by Nichia’s YAG p...

Reportedly, Philips has developed its new daylight solution to increase the visibility of commercial vehicles, thereby ensuring safer driving during the day and at night. This introduction anticipates European legislation prescribing that all new trucks and buses – over 33 million – must be equipped with dedicated Daytime Running Lights (DRL) from August 2012 onwards. Philips LED MasterLife Daylight 8 offers a high-value DRL solution for commercial vehicles already on the road, and enables drivers to benefit from the increased safety of DRL right now...

In regard to Veeco’s Taiwan Technology Center for the LED industry, Justin K. Wang, the VP/General Manager of Veeco Instrument Inc, and Dr. Ming Jiunn Jou, the President of Epistar Corporation, indicated that the future of LED makers comprises both risks and opportunities. Therefore, they hoped that the Taiwanese government can establish specific standards and criteria for LED lighting products, in the hope of raising awareness of LED products in consumers. Furthermore, if the government is willing to enact subsidy policies for the LED industry, the profits they bring will largely exceed the investment they require. That being said, the Taiwanese government should more actively support the energy-saving and green energy industries, otherwise the Taiwanese LED industry may be surpassed by South Korea in 2011 and decline to the third place in the total capacity of LED.

Veeco Instruments Inc, a supplier of metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) equipment for light emitting diodes (LEDs) production, celebrated the opening of its new Taiwan Technology Center (TTC) today in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The goal of Taiwan Technology Center is to ensure customer collaboration and enhanced responsiveness to build a long-term strategic partnership with our key Greater China customers. Due to the huge demand for LED and the LED chip investment fever, Veeco would like to provide an up-to-date and adequate service and the suppor...

Recognizes Lumenpulse's substantial global growth and award-winning LED technology Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced that it was ranked #17 in the 12th annual PROFIT HOT 50 ranking, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Top New Growth Companies. Published in the October issue of PROFIT magazine and online at PROFITguide.com, the PROFIT HOT 50 ranks young firms by two-year revenue gro...