Encelium’s ECS™ Contributes to Certification Credits in Multiple Ways   With today’s broad awareness that green buildings offer lower operating costs, increased value and improved ROI, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification has become the framework of choice for achieving sustainability at commercial properties. Lighting, which accounts for 40 percent of energy use in office buildings, often dominates the opportunity for energy savings among all electrical systems and ...

GT Advanced Technologies has released a case study of evaluating the impact of sapphire color on the LED manufacturing process. All studies were conducted using blind samples of GT ASF sapphire material as well as LED grade sapphire from other sources. The case study results were obtained from an independently conducted Glow Discharge Mass Spectroscopy (GDMS) analysis as well as a High Brightness (HB) LED device fabrication study performed using Photo-thermal Common-path Interferometry (PCI) analysis. The studies demonstrated that all sapphire, re...

Puget Sound Energy ,Washington state’s oldest local energy utility, has provide a new instant rebate for up to $10-off LED bulbs for residential electric customers. It is PSE’s first LED bulb rebate for residential electric customers. PSE customers can receive an instant rebate of up to $10-off a variety of ENERGY STAR®-qualified LED bulbs. Depending on the type of bulb, the after-rebate price to customers ranges between $15 and $50. Customers can purchase rebated ENERGY STAR-qualified LED bulbs at participating retailers includ...

Cooper Lighting has supplied its LED products to Florida's furniture retailers,City Furniture for LEED Silver certification for a new 94,000 sq. ft. superstore in Boca Raton, Florida. To meet the illumination requirements, City Furniture chose and installed 3,500 of Cooper Lighting's Halo Stasis LED track fixtures, 18 McGraw-Edison Ventus LED outdoor parking lot fixtures, and 10 Lumark LED Wal-Pak exterior security wall-mount luminaires. With an overall goal of reducing wattage consumption of the general lighting by half when compared to ...

SA intends to become the first African country to phase out and then ban all energy-guzzling light bulbs before 2016. At the 17th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17), Energy Minister Dipuo Peters announced to ban incandescent lights in the next five years. It’s part of a partnership between the UN Environment Programme (Unep) and the Phillips and Osram lighting groups. Although the energy-saving effects have not been quantified, Peters estimated that switching from incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescen...

Recently, Philips has supplied  30 sustainable cooking stoves and 200 solar-driven LED home lighting for 200 households across the South African Ilembe district , to improve the lives of people living in rural communities. According to Philips ,the home lighting system is a complete LED lighting kit that has been designed to provide low-cost, highly efficient bright light for households and small businesses. The central solar panel-charged battery pack powers two LED lights. A full day's charging in the sun (8 hours) will provide enough light for a whole evening...

HPML LED light module a perfect match with reliable light systems   OSRAM, one of the two leading light manufacturers in the world, has successfully provided its trademarked High Power Modular Lamps Advance (HPML AD) light module in the iLite System, an inflatable and portable floodlight.    The iLite’s light head is a high-quality, extremely durable OSRAM 12-volt HPML AD module that is IP66-rated for dust and moisture protection.   The iLite is a mobile, portable, inflatable LED floodlight. It is freestandi...

Wakefield-based LED driver module supplier Harvard Engineering has actively taken actions to tap into the LED lighting market. As Michael McDonnell, sales and marketing director at Harvard , said “It’s an exciting time to be involved in the lighting industry and we’re investing heavily to create in the research and development of our CoolLED drivers.” Recently, the company announced CoolLED Kompact and CoolLED 40W drivers are aimed at the professional lighting sector for powering high-brightness LEDs from a mains supply. The f...

Recently, Panasonic Electric Works has released an LED lighting device to replace high-output high-frequency (HF) fluorescent lamps. According to the company, the new LED lighting device has a brightness equivalent to or higher than those of HF fluorescent lamps. The CRI is 84. A high-efficiency model that is expected to embedded in a ceiling to replace two HF32-type fluorescent lamps has a designed luminous flux of 5,880lm, a rated power consumption of 60.6W on average and an efficiency of 108.3lm/W, which are approximately 14% higher, 31% lower and 27% higher, re...

Electric Lighting Agencies and O’Blaney Rinker Associates are pleased to announce that they have entered into a joint venture to combine their mutual lighting and control system specification efforts in New York City. The joint venture offers the extended client base of both agencies in the lighting and control system specifications and sales, a vast range of experience and knowledge across the complete spectrum of New York’s lighting design, engineering, architectural and distribution communities. The Electric Lighting Agencies, Inc. is the oldest and larges...

Encouraged by the pilot LED project's success on four streets - Harish Mukherjee Road, S N Banerjee Road, New Park Street and Syed Amir Ali Avenue, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has roped in Asian Development Bank (ADB) to foot major part of the Rs 50-crore bill to get more LED lights on major roads. ADB has agreed to part-fund KMC's LED project in the first leg of phase II of the Kolkata Environment Improvement Project (KEIP). From February, work on installing LED lights will begin in Bidhan Sarani, Vivekananda...

Toshiba has taken a lighting ceremony to celebrate the illumination of the exterior of the Louvre with its new LED lighting on 6 December. Working in collaboration with the Louvre, Toshiba’s lighting engineers developed and installed six series and ten models of lighting fixtures, including high beam-lamps to illuminate the Pyramid and the palace walls. Toshiba’s ceremony marked the switching on of some 350 light fittings out of a total of 3,200 that will eventually completely replace 4,500 high energy xenon lamps. The remaining facades of the Napoleon Cour...

London office to support growing global LED fixtures demand   Lumenpulse Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of high performance, architectural LED-based lighting solutions for commercial, institutional, and urban environments, today announced the opening of a new EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Asia-Pacific) Sales Headquarters based in London, UK, which will begin operations immediately. Located in the historic Leathermarket, a short walk from London Bridge, the office will provide full sales, technical and application support for countries in Eur...

During his visit to the Bavarian state capital Munich, the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang met the managing board of OSRAM AG. The discussions focused above all on questions concerning closer cooperation in the field of light-emitting diodes, in short LED. The chairman of the managing board at OSRAM AG, Wolfgang Dehen, emphasized: “The discussions were of enormous importance to us notably with a view to the great significance of the Chinese lighting market.”   Following its inspection of a pioneering OSRAM test inst...

Seoul Semiconductor has introduced its new product ZC (Z-Power COB), Chip-On-Board (COB) Type of Direct Current (DC) LED. And the recently launched ZC Series will begin mass production in December and will subsequently be available to customers. ZC series, developed based on Seoul Semiconductor’s Z-Power LEDs which are mainly used as a light source of high-brightness and high-power, decreases thermal resistance, resulting in an exponential improvement in LED lighting product life expectancy. The ZC Series is designed as a COB type an...

Lately, Seoul Semiconductor and Royal Philips Electronics have agreed to enter into a cross-license agreement covering patents relating to specific LED technology areas. According to the arrangement, each party gains access to a substantial part of the other party's patent portfolios for various LED level technologies. “We are very excited about our Acrich family of products and especially Acrich2, which was introduced in October 2011. Acrich2 eliminates many of the technical barriers associated with traditional high-voltage and AC-driven LED solutions&...

Taiwan Forepi has ordered an Aixtron CRIUS II-XL reactor in a 19x4-inch configuration to manufacture indium gallium nitride epiwafers for HB-LEDs. The order came in the third quarter of 2011, initially for the CRIUS II-L version, and was immediately converted into Aixtron´s brand new XL-configuration right after its launch. Delivery of the new reactor will take place in the fourth quarter of 2011. The CRIUS II-XL reactor has been acquired for the volume production of InGaN-based high-brightness (HB) blue LED epiwafer materials. One...

The University of Wyoming (UW) recently is retrofitting a research greenhouse’s conventional 600-Watt high-intensity discharge lamps with LumiGrow LED-based systems fixtures. With LumiGrow LED-based systems, UW will reduce lighting-related energy consumption and costs by half. According to LumiGrow, the UW greenhouse retrofit will save more than 13,000 kilowatt-hours of power and avoid the emission of 29,000 pounds of carbon dioxide annually. Additionally, the LED lighting manufacturer projects that this energy savings will translate into $5,666 in ...

Lighting Science Group announced today that the company's LED bulbs have been used to light the Dallas Arboretum's newly christened Nancy Rutchik Red Maple Rill. The 2 acre rill features a collection of over 80 varieties of 200 signature Japanese Maples along the periphery of a circulating brook and winding pedestrian pathway. As opposed to R40 175W mercury vapor lamps that would have required ballast boxes to be mounted to trees, Lighting Science Group worked with Unique Lighting of Texas to illuminate the area with its ultra-efficient PAR30 LED bulbs....

Mexican officials have placed $1M of EG-series solar LED outdoor lighting system from Carmanah's solar outdoor lighting. It’s the company’s largest order to date . The Carmanah EG-series solar LED outdoor lighting portfolio is the company's latest generation of reliable and cost-effective solar LED lighting products designed for cost-sensitive and developing regions of the world. On November 30th, 2011, Carmanah launched the anticipated EG40 and EG80 solar outdoor lighting systems. Offering a top-of-pole integrated design that eases instal...

Groom Energy has supported Millard, a refrigerated warehousing and distribution services company for an LED warehouse lighting retrofit at Millard's Allentown facility. The project is considered as one of the largest LED deployments in the U.S with almost 800 LED high bay fixtures covering more than 629,000 square feet. The implementation will save significant amounts of energy by reducing 3.5 million kilowatt hours in lighting and cooling system operation and eliminating more than 1,700 tons of CO2 into the environment.  ...

Recently, part of Taiwan's economic stimulus package announced to install 320,000 LED streetlights on the island, as one of a series of measures introduced by vice premier Sean Chen to boost high-tech industry. Datas show that Taiwan's economy grew over 10% last year with 13% growth in exports but it's looking at 4% growth next year with growth in exports of only 5.3% - if the stimulus succeeds. As a result, investment in the LED lighting, is one direction in which the stimulus money is going. The Taiwan government is still fighting for its collapsed DRAM...

Suspended Linear Fixture Optimally Illuminates Both the Ceiling and Work Surface for an Inspiring Indoor Lighting Experience    Lunera Lighting , a Silicon Valley company that designs, manufactures, and markets next-generation LED lighting, is pleased to announce the 6460 SERIES has been declared a winner in the Architectural Products , Product Innovation Awards (PIA). The distinctive ultra-thin 6460 SERIES delivers a full-spectrum of near daylight quality LED light and are a high design addition to commercial spaces. “Like a ...

Next Generation Facility Is Foundation to High Quality, High Yield, Large Diameter Sapphire Wafer Market Leadership   Rubicon Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RBCN), a leading provider of sapphire substrates and products to the LED, RFIC, Semiconductor, and Optical industries, today marks the first anniversary of the company’s next-generation sapphire crystal growth facility, located in Batavia, IL. The 135,000 sq. ft. facility is used for the production of sapphire crystals which are further processed into sapphire ingots and large diameter sapp...

Everlight has officially launched varieties of A60 series and MR16 series LED retrofits at 40 most popular branches of JHC Group in Hong Kong starting from December 1st. It is first time that use "EVERLIGHT" brand to capture Hong Kong market. This is also the most significant step to EVERLIGHT as well. Currently, LED Lighting already became the pioneer trend and "ECO" marked products in global lighting market. Hong Kong government started to advocate LED lighting few years ago. EVERLIGHT offers multiple disco...

LSI Industries Inc. (Nasdaq:LYTS) announced the introduction of a new specification grade bollard featuring a revolutionary high performance patent-pending Dual Beam LED optical system with state-of-the-art driver technology for unsurpassed system efficiency, control and protection. The innovative Dual Beam optical system, driven by LSI's Crossover® LED technology, delivers advantageous fixture spacing and superior lighting uniformity for enhanced security and improved pathway lighting. With precise lighting control, the XHYP3 projects the right amount o...

Recently, Taiwan Unity Opto Technology Co., Ltd. and Genesis Photonics Inc. have recevied a big LED lights order from mainland China’s buyers.The orders wil begin delievering this quarter. According to Unity executives , some of the mainland’s top retailers have recently designated it to supply them LED light bulbs on a contract basis. Epi-wafer maker Formosa Epitaxy Inc. is also estimated to benefit from the contracts to Unity since it is a close ally of Unity. For Genesis , it has entered into alliance with IT retailer Potevio Co. to drum u...

Recently,Everlight has taken an active action on fighting a lawsuit against Nichia in Tokyo District Court and said it will unfold the legal action by bringing the patent suits to other countries to counter Nichia’s repeated accusations that Everlight infringes on its patents. In the lawsuit, Everlight asked the district court to stop Nichia from spreading the allegation and appealed for damage claims. Everlight has become the first Taiwanese LED maker to take legal action against Nichia over patent issue. Everlight’s confidence comes from winning the case...

Salina City Commissioners are considering about exploring the possibility of lights replacement in downtown Salina. Commissioners were updated on the project, which is still in the conceptual stage, during a study session on Monday. Philips lighting would provide LED lamp posts including a 10 year warranty in the downtown area. The entire project would cost about $1.2 million. Salina Mayor Samantha Angell said that she would expect Salina Downtown Inc. to help fund the project. Officials believe that the project would eventually pay for itself, though, in energy s...

Vancouver and nearby Langley in southwestern Canada is to install Korean-made LED lamps in February, next year after the certification process. According to the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, Yuyang DNU, a Korean LED producer, will supply 20 units of 50-watt and 80-watt lights without charge to the two cities for a test operation. The deal is to be signed Wednesday. The deal comes as part of the trade agency’s project to help local small- and mid-sized businesses export their products. Korea is said to be the world’s second-largest LE...