LED + SSL

I wrote an article for the March issue of Electrical Contractor about the Lighting Quality Advocates program and the Lighting Facts label. The Quality Advocates Initiative was created by the Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance and the Department of Energy to encourage LED product manufacturers to voluntarily follow certain guidelines and labeling to report performance [...]

The Department of Energy has released the final report from a demonstration of LED residential street lighting in Portland, OR. In this project, eight 100W high-pressure sodium cobrahead luminaires were replaced with LED street light luminaires. The report provides an overview of project results, including lighting performance, economics and potential energy savings. Here are a [...]

Guest post by Bill Scanlon, NREL Light bulbs that last 100 years and fill rooms with brilliant ambiance may become a reality sooner rather than later, thanks to a National Renewable Energy Laboratory discovery. NREL scientists found a way to generate a tricky combination of green and red that may just prove to be the [...]

Guest post by Ted Konnerth, President/CEO of Egret Consulting Group I just returned from speaking at Strategies in Light. SiL is the largest conference dedicated to LED. My topic was selling new technology into an old culture and it was well received; from both the ‘tech guys’ and the traditional lighting guys. My point was [...]

In January, 2010, the city of Bradenton Beach, Florida, along the central Gulf Coast adjacent Sarasota and Bradenton, completed an installation that everyone can appreciate. They replaced 100W high-pressure sodium street lights and ballasts along the city’s main thoroughfare, fronting on Gulf of Mexico beach land, with 17W LED lights. Bradenton Beach found a way [...]

Yum! Brands, parent of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and other brands, is the world’s largest restaurant company with more than 36,000 restaurants in over 110 countries. As part of its efforts to demonstrate social responsibility, Yum! unveiled its first LEED Gold-certified restaurant, a KFC/Taco Bell in Northampton, Mass., in 2008. The [...]

Cree has announced that it is introducing a series of LED modules designed to accelerate the adoption of LED lighting by traditional luminaire manufacturers and speed time-to-market for their new LED-based products. The first product in the new line is the Cree LED Module LMR4, created to overcome common design issues manufacturers have faced when [...]

GE Lighting has announced that it is previewing potential OLED lighting application ideas during two industry trade shows this year, Light + Building 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany and LightFair 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The company will show OLEDs in a number of configurations at both shows, including fixture prototypes that help to demonstrate [...]

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, DOE [Recently], DOE published the latest round of test results for the Commercially Available LED Product Evaluation and Reporting (CALiPER) program, which provides an ongoing series of “snapshots” of solid-state lighting (SSL) technology progress and trends. The Round 9 Summary Report includes test results for recessed downlights, 2’x2’ troffers and [...]