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Lighting Science Group has announced that it has become a sponsor of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2011. The Solar Decathlon is an award-winning program that challenges 20 collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive. The winner of the competition is the team that best [...]

Denny’s Corporation has chosen energy-efficient LED lights from Cree, Inc. as the preferred lighting standard for all its new and remodeled stores across the United States. Cree’s award-winning LR6 six-inch downlights are being specified in various applications, including dining areas and restrooms in all newly constructed and converted facilities. “We evaluated numerous LED light fixtures [...]

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is providing powerful new tools, downloads, and technical information for solution providers and engineers via its LEDlight website. The new online tools section provides access to a number of LED lighting tools for lighting engineers and designers. Public files include video slidecasts of recent reference designs, LED product highlights and SSL technical [...]

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy Although you do not often hear about growth in domestic manufacturing here in the United States, the solid-state lighting industry is steadily growing and establishing a manufacturing presence here at home. Solid-state lighting was not only born of U.S. ingenuity and R&D, but is riding the [...]

ALLSCAPE’s SL-26 above-ground luminaire height can be adjusted in the field to accommodate landscape growth. The high-density polyethylene housing makes it corrosion resistant even in the harshest lighting environments. Lamping options include 25W LED, 70W metal halide and 42W compact fluorescent. A full range of flood, spot and wallwash optics are available. Click here to [...]

LED company Lighting Science Group Corporation completed an $18 million private placement of its common stock on January 26, 2011. Pegasus Partners IV, L.P., the company’s largest equityholder, and two of its operating advisors purchased 3,167,333 shares of common stock for an aggregate purchase price of $10,452,200. Michael Kempner, who is also an operating advisor [...]

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy [Recently], DOE published a new report, “Energy Savings Estimates of Light-Emitting Diodes in Niche Lighting Applications.” A follow-up to a similar report published in 2008, it takes a close look at twelve different markets, and provides two kinds of estimates for each one: the energy saved last [...]

Christmas strand, traffic light and automobile LED lights marketed as safe, environmentally preferable alternatives to traditional light sources may reduce air emissions at power plants by using less energy, but nonetheless contain lead, arsenic and a dozen other potentially hazardous substances, according to newly published research. Scientists at UC Irvine and UC Davis crunched, leached [...]

The Department of Energy recently released analysis findings for markets where LEDs compete with or are poised to compete with traditional lighting sources such as incandescent and fluorescent. The January 2011 report provides estimates of current energy savings, plus potential savings if these markets switched to LEDs overnight. Twelve markets were analyzed: * Four general-illumination [...]