LED + SSL

LED leader Cree has announced record revenue of $234.1 million for its third quarter of fiscal 2010, ended March 28, 2010. This represents a 78% increase compared to revenue of $131.1 million reported for the third fiscal quarter last year and a 17% increase compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2010. “We achieved record [...]

In its Jan/Feb 2010 issue, Architectural SSL published an article I authored about Round 9 of CALiPER testing (October 2009) covering 30 recessed downlights, 2×2 flat panel luminaires and troffers, 4-ft. linear replacement lamps and small replacement lamps. Despite continuing problems in the SSL industry, including inaccurate and inflated sales claims and a wide range [...]

Below is a transcript of a press conference given by Rudy Provoost, CEO of Philips Lighting, at Light + Building 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, April 12, 2010. Stating a prediction that LEDs will achieve 50% market penetration by as early as 2015 and 75% by 2020, he announced a number of interesting new LED [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that Seattle City Light has been selected to lead a national effort to guide municipalities in evaluating LED street lights. Edward Smalley of Seattle City Light will lead the Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium, which will collect, analyze and share information and lessons learned related to LED [...]

Last Friday, I received a copy of an Engineering Technical Letter from the U.S. Air Force that states that LED luminaires are not allowed for outdoor parking lot and area lighting applications: 5.1.1. The Chief Electrical Engineer has also determined LED luminaires are not permitted for exterior applications by UFC 3-530-01, Chapter 7. Only metal [...]

LED company Lunera Lighting has announced a partnership with One Million Lights (OML), an organization that distributes solar-powered LED lights to families around the world–with a goal to distribute 1 million LED lights–to replace environmentally toxic kerosene lamps and enable children to study at night. An estimated 1.6-billion people, live a life without electric lighting. [...]

UL Environment, Inc. has begun a collaborative effort to develop sustainability standards for indoor and outdoor lighting. These standards will assist consumers, designers, architects and building operators in identifying more sustainable options for interior and exterior light fixtures, LED modules and related lighting components. The standards will address entire luminaires, including reflector, aperture, outer shell [...]

At Light + Building, Philips introduced a 60W-equivalent LED replacement lamp. To be launched commercially towards the end of 2010 as part of the company’s Master LED line, the dimmable 12W lamp will deliver 806 lumens of warm white light and feature a rated life of 25,000 hours.

The International Dark-Sky Association has issued a Specifier Bulletin for Dark Sky Applications titled, “Achievements in High Brightness White LED Devices.” The first Specifier Bulletin of 2010 recognizes manufacturers of high brightness white LEDs that achieve high efficacy while considering quality of light. IDA states: “The method of manufacturing high brightness white LEDs by coating [...]