LED + SSL

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 [...]

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 [...]