Outdoor Lighting: Philips supplies LED street lights to Boston and Weston (Updated)

New SSL street-light projects in Boston, MA and Weston, FL utilize Philips Hadco and Roadway luminaires, and Philips SpeedStar luminaires serve in a UK pilot.

Inovus Solar installs on-grid solar LED area lights

Solar panels integrated on LED area-light poles feed power onto the grid during daytime peak electrical usage to compound the energy savings of SSL technology.

LG Innotek walks-the-walk with huge LED production plant

LG Innotek has installed over 10,000 LED luminaires throughout its LED manufacturing complex in Paju, Korea.

GE Lighting to acquire leading driver maker Lightech

GE Lighting will acquire Lightech, a leading manufacturer of LED drivers, for an undisclosed sum.

Can LED lamps beat the products they replace?

Panelists at the US DOE SSL Workshop discussed a Caliper study on LED replacement lamps purchased at retail, which found the LED lamps generally did not meet the performance of the benchmark lamps.

Outdoor Lighting: Tempe vetoes LEDs, chooses induction street lights

US Lighting Tech announced that it will supply the city of Tempe, Arizona with 1000 induction street lights after the city decided LEDs weren’t a good match for the desert temperature extremes.

GE funds and licenses Nuventix’s cooling technology

GE joined other existing investors to complete a $10 million investment in Nuventix, while also licensing its technology.

LED Business News: Philips, Osram, EMerge Alliance, InfiniLED, Zett Optics

Philips has reported its quarterly results, Osram has become a stock corporation, EMerge Alliance has announced seven new members, InfiniLED has launched, and Zett Optics has acquired the major assets of Lite-Licht.

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