2013-05-17

Xcel Energy Testing GE LED Street Lighting in Minnesota for Eight-State Service Area

GE's new Evolve™ LED Scalable Cobrahead lighting fixtures have been installed by Xcel Energy in the city of West St. Paul, Minn., as part of a utility-initiated implementation of LED street lights. Xcel Energy will monitor performance of the new lights for two years and use the data to develop an LED program for every state in its service area: Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. The utility maintains approximately 500,000 Xcel Energy and customer-owned street lights in all eight states. ...
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2012-12-14

GE LED Streetlighting Helps Pennsylvania Town Save $40,000

The Borough of Tarentum, a small town of approximately 4,500 nestled along the Allegheny River in Western Pennsylvania, is converting 100 percent of its street lighting to GE's new Evolve™ LED Scalable Cobrahead fixtures with dimmable photocells. The switch will save Tarentum approximately 66 percent in annual lighting energy and maintenance expense, equaling about $40,000 based on a $.10 kWh rate and 4,000 hours of operation a year. And, with financing from GE Capital, the borough has been provided a lease-to-own solution that requires no out-of-pocket funds ...
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2012-11-02

GE Lighting Cooperates with Bay Area Climate Collaborative for LED Streetlighting Project

The Bay Area Climate Collaborative   (BACC) and GE Lighting   announced a project to advance the energy-efficient street-lighting market. The Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative aims to catalyze the upgrade of over 200,000 municipal streetlights in the region to LED technology.   Through the Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative  , the BACC is developing educational resources and pooling Bay Area-wide interest in LED streetlight conversions with a joint procurement option to secure improved purchase a...
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2012-08-30

Bay Area Climate Collaborative and SWARCO Traffic Americas Collaborate to Accelerate Advanced LED Streetlighting Solutions

The Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC) and SWARCO Traffic Americas, Inc. (SWARCO) announced a collaboration to advance the market for energy efficient, adaptive lighting technologies through the Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative, a region-wide project to upgrade 200,000+ municipal streetlights to advanced light-emitting diode (LED) technology. SWARCO’s sponsorship of the BACC’s Bay Area Next Generation Streetlight Initiative will support advancement of new streetlight technology that will improve municipal budge...
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2012-07-04

Viper Networks Designs Advance LED Street Lighting System to Apollo Metro Solutions

Viper Networks, Inc. has submitted designs for an 'Advance LED Street Lighting System' to Florida Company Apollo Metro Solutions. Since Viper Networks is striving to develop large scale LED commercial business in both the private and public sector, including potential orders from government municipalities, the Company is building another key relationship by targeting an 'Advance Street Lighting System' for streetlights and parking lot lighting. The Company anticipates that their successful design completion for a new street lighting system wi...
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Tokushima, Japan - 6 March 2024: Nichia, the world's largest LED manufacturer and inventor of the high-brightness blue and white LED, has started mass production of the new UV-B (308nm) and UV-A (330nm) LEDs in its popular 434 Series packa... READ MORE

New XLamp® S Line LEDs enhance growth, last longer, lower energy costs Horticulture and other forms of agricultural lighting require application-tuned ratios of spectral content, high efficacy and long lifetimes. Whether you are interested... READ MORE