A large power station in Australia recently finalized an agreement to be fitted out on a progressive basis for all future general area and lighting applications with Dialight’s SafeSite® and LEDPAK® industrial LED lighting fixtures.

ilumisys, Inc., developer and producer of solid-state lighting technology, announced last week that it has granted a license for its LED fluorescent tube replacement patents to Light Emitting Designs of North Barrington, Ill.



Combining energy efficiency with stunning, unique decorative glass designs, Meyda Custom Lighting unveils LED Fused Glass wall sconces. Meyda Lighting is a division of Meyda Tiffany, the nation's leading manufacturer and designer of Tiffany lamps and stained glass lighting and accessories.

bulbs.com announced today that it has reached an agreement with Nexxus Lighting making bulbs.com the principal online distributor of the entire line of Array LED lamps and marking the entrance into the LED lighting market for bulbs.com.

Energy Focus, Inc. yesterday announced that it has been awarded a $0.5 million SBIR extension grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and produce solid state lighting fixtures for general use on Navy ships. The new fixtures will replace 50 and 110 Watt water tight incandescent fixtures now in use. With the addition of these new fixtures Energy Focus, Inc.

The Pittsburgh International Airport has get an $800,000 grant to install LED lighting, a county executive Monday announced. Nearly 1,500 LED Lights will be installed in parking lots, and garages in the airport. The lights that will be replaced are in the long-term and extended parking lots as well as the three-level parking garage at the airport. The LED lighting system will consume an estimated 83 percent less energy and result in $158,754 in annual energy savings, with 2,118,438 kWh saved over the project's lifetime.

In Austin, Texas, SunFlowers, an Electric Garden has been completed, becoming the largest public art installation in the city. The Electric Garden is comprised of 15 flower-shaped photovoltaic solar panels that line a pedestrian and bike path on the greenbelt between a retail lot and highway I-35.

Nearly 4000 Anolis ArcLine LED units have been used at the newly opened Mall of Arabia complex, a landmark retail, leisure and entertainment centre - and the largest mall - in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. making it the largest Anolis project in the world to date!

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey recently announced that it has completed installing energy-efficient LED lighting on the iconic necklace of the George Washington Bridge. LSI Industries, under contract to the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and in coordination with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, developed and produced this innovative lighting system.

From September 7 - 20 the 19 historic windmills in Kinderdijk (The Netherlands), which are listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, will be spectacularly lit by Philips and Technische Unie using colorful and energy-efficient LED lighting.

European consumers are switching to green products as a result of the EU ban on incandescent lamps. According to a market research company, sales of traditional light bulbs fell by up to 35 percent in the first quarter of 2009 in a number of European countries. Increases in purchases of regular light bulbs are a regional phenomenon, particularly in Germany and Austria. EU ban on incandescent lamps will help consumers and the climate

Nualight Ltd., a specialist in LED lighting for food retail, has signed a strategic supply and partnership agreement with Kysor//Warren, a division of Manitowoc Foodservice. The three year agreement enables Kysor//Warren to offer its customers temperature-controlled food displays that are high on impact and low on energy combining Nualight's award winning Vantium™ LED Lightbars with Kysor//Warren's next generation display case, STRATUS.

Lighting Science Group Corporation (LSG) recently announced that Arizona State University (ASU) has taken another step in its commitment to 'going green' by retrofitting six parking structures on the Tempe campus with new light emitting-diode (LED) fixtures. Changing the existing fixtures to Lighting Science's LED low bay solution will afford ASU with an annual savings of up to $127,000 in energy and maintenance costs for the six structures that were retrofit.

Nexxus Lighting, Inc. announced that it has launched its new narrow optic (25 degree Beam Angle) product offering for its Par 30, Par 16 and MR16 Array™ LED replacement lamp line and that it has received purchase orders valued at over $565,000 for Array™ lamps in the last 60 days. 

The Jewelers of America (JA) summer show was recently held at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York City. Econo-Lite Products, the jewelry lighting division of Eco-Lite Products, LLC, showed their new LED lighting product, the LED Vantage © which was designed to be placed inside of a jewelry showcase. 

LightWild today announced it has completed the LED in-grade lighting for the Royal York Courtyard Garden located in New York City.

Powermicro Technology Sdn Bhd has received a contract to supply LED lighting to a prestigious shopping centre in Singapore's renown shopping mile - Orchard Road.

With this new range of designer LED ceiling lights, ICONIC LIGHTS have found that energy saving lights can not only save money but can be designer or contemporary too. LED lights use a fraction of the electricity that a traditional light would do and they last 25 times longer. And homes or businesses can not only create a dramatic impact but can save up to 80% electricity too, the company said.

The roof of Melbourne’s new Rectangular Stadium would be covered with thousands of LED lights that can shine in any color and be programmed into a multitude of patterns, Tim Pallas, Major Projects Minister of Australia recently announced. The lighting scheme would put the AU$267.5 million Rectangular Stadium up there with Beijing’s water cube and the 2006 World Cup stadium Allianz Arena in Munich, Mr. Pallas said.

Mr. Beams LED Lighting has just released the new Energy-efficient Wireless Lights for dorm rooms. The new products can be placed anywhere and are activated by motion sensors, and provide the right amount of light in the dorm room for the roommate who is awake, while not disturbing the sleep of others, according to the company.

GE Consumer & Industrial announces that Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. has replaced approximately 12,000 standard incandescent and halogen lights in more than 150 Red Robin® restaurant locations in the U.S. with new, more efficient 7-watt GE light emitting diode (LED) PAR 20 flood and spot lights. Red Robin is using the GE LED lights for general down lighting applications that require a high quality of light, measured as lamp-to-lamp white LED color consistency.

Litepanels, Inc., the provider of LED (light emitting diode) television and motion picture lighting equipment, announced that it will be awarded a Technology & Engineering Emmy(R) Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its proprietary lighting systems.

Energy Focus, Inc. announced yesterday that it has been selected to receive a $1.4 million contract by the Naval Research Warfare Center to develop and produce solid state lighting fixtures for use specifically on Virginia Class attack submarines. The new fixtures will replace single, double and triple tube fluorescent water tight fixtures now in use as well as provide solid state replacements for existing fluorescent based berth lights.

Carmanah Technologies (TSX: CMH) yesterday introduced its new M650 solar-LED marine lantern. The new product features an on-board programmable interface, USB connection, replaceable battery pack as well as intelligent deployment capability, and provides four nautical miles of visibility. The M650 solar-LED marine lantern is designed for lighting ports, harbours and marinas; marking obstructions and nautical hazards; or illuminating aids to navigation in all types of environments.

A massive exterior lighting installation built with 75,000 red LUXEON® LEDs is raising the visibility of CentralPlaza ChaengWattana, a seven-story, 300-store shopping complex in Bangkok.

China can act as a model for developing countries and the wider world by investing in environmentally friendly growth and prioritizing the creation of cleaner energy, Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations said recently, urging the leaders of the planet’s most populous nation to “serve as the vanguard of tomorrow’s economy", according to a report on the UN News Centre website. Chinese government this year has launched in Beijing a new energy-sav

Dialight Corporation is set to introduce its first LED high bay luminaire which has been designed exclusively to replace conventional high bay lighting solutions in interior and exterior industrial, commercial and hazardous location applications.

LightWild today announced it has completed the LED lighting for Prairie Band Casino & Resort, in Mayetta, KS. The Casino and Resort is owned and operated by the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, which is approximately 85 miles from Kansas City.

Philips Lumec has been chosen by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of western North Carolina to light their downtown streetscapes with their environmentally responsible LED lighting solutions. In doing so, they clearly place this town of 14,500 residents, located on the South end of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in the vanguard of communities choosing environmentally responsible LED lighting technologies.

PowerSecure International, Inc. (Nasdaq:POWR) today announced it has been awarded approximately $5 million of new orders for its EfficientLights LED lighting technology. The new orders are expected to be completed and recognized primarily during the second half of 2009. In total, this brings 2009 EfficientLights orders from major retailers to over $13 million, as the Company has realized a significant uptake in order flow this year from this state-of-the-art technology.