US State Dept Uses LED Retrofits From Silvermere Group
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The US Embassy in Sri Lanka has converted its warehouse lighting from high-pressure sodium (HPS) bulbs to LED, using high-performance LED retrofit kits from Silvermere in the existing high-bay fixtures. Silvermore notes that HPS bulbs produce low quality light with orange hue and poor color rendering. They produce a …
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DOE Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium Publishes Guidance for Cities Wanting to Switch to LEDs
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium published guidance for cities, utilities, and other local agencies interested in converting their street and roadway lighting to LED technology. The Model Specification for LED Roadway Luminaires is designed specifically for LED luminaires. Effective LED roadway luminaires …
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Ilsung Moolsan Selects Bridgelux Arrays for its LED Downlights at Sheraton Hotel in Seoul’s D-Cube City
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Bridgelux Inc. of Livermore, California USA, reports that luminaire manufacturer Ilsung Moolsan of Korea has selected its LED arrays as the light source for 1000 of their LED downlights at the new Sheraton Hotel at D-Cube City in Seoul. The Ilsung Moolsan LED Downlights using Bridgelux’s RS and ES …
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Stamford, Connecticut to Save More Than $146,000 Annually with Switch to LED Streetlights
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The city of Stamford, Connecticut USA chose to switch to energy-efficient LED streetlights from GE. The city expects to save more than $146,000 annually
The city was awarded an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, an initiative funding energy efficiency and conservation programs across the country. The grant helped fund …
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Philips Sheds New Light on Rembrandt Masterpiece
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Royal Philips Electronics (Philips) announced that starting on October 26, that a renowned painting titled, the Night Watch, by Rembrandt van Rijn will be bathed in LED lighting from Philips. Founder of the renovated Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, is now presenting the famous work in LED light. According …
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Cree Introduces Improved XLamp MT-G LEDs
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Cree has introduced its new XLamp MT-G LEDs. Cree notes that the new MT-G LED is more than 10 percent brighter, and can deliver up to 1670 lumens at 85C in warm white (3000K) color temperatures. Additionally, MT-G LEDs are now available in high CRI versions for applications such as …
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EPA Publishes First Draft of Energy Star Lamp Specification
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published the first draft of its Energy Star Lamps V 1.0 specification at at www.energystar.gov/lamps. The Lamps specification is intended to replace the Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs, V4.2) and Integral LED Lamp (V1.3) specifications. The EPA is seeking review and …Category: ledappsintcomml
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Commercial LED Lighting efficiency standards should not be too stringent
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A very substantial issue of concern that came up at the just-completed SSL
Summit NYC is that a fixed efficiency "threshold" on solid state
lighting products can represent an arbitrary number that utilities end up wrapping
their incentives around, when the "economic" solution …
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