The DOE Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium, in collaboration with the Clinton Climate Initiative, recently launched a free cost-benefit analysis tool for municipalities, utilities, and other organizations as a method for analyzing the cost and return from lighting efficiency projects. The model will help municipalities better understand all of the … [continued]
New smart lighting control technology from startup Enlighted has saved its first corporate customers (the likes of Google, Turner Broadcasting, LinkedIn, Interface Global, and 31 other Fortune 100 companies) 60% of their previous lighting electricity usage, Enlighted notes. The company, based in a nice Silicon Valley city I used to … [continued]
Recently the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released The 2010 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization report, which examines the current conditions and broad trends in the U.S. lighting market. The report included many promising trends, of which a shift to more energy-efficient lighting was perhaps the most important. The new … [continued]
The Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) recently partnered with Ecova, a sustainability management firm, to determine the 10 best LED bulbs on the market today. A news release I was emailed briefly explains what the ranking was based on: “By ‘best,’ the study sought to measure not only an LED reflector … [continued]
Japanese manufacturer Net LED Technology Corporation has released the first cloud-based Wi-Fi lighting system. The 40-W light allows users to dim lights and wattage from a computer, smartphone (iPhone app), or RFID device.
The costs of the lighting setup runs 60,000 yen ($781 USD) for the primary server, which supports up to 100 lights; 19,800 yen ($257 USD) for the main tube; and 14,000 yen ($182 USD) for secondary lights.
Just in time for the 2012 Olympic Games, GE and London’s City Hall will retrofit the lighting on Tower Bridge. The state-of-the-art, energy-efficient lighting system will have energy savings of 40-45% in energy savings over the current artistic lighting fixtures. The installation will utilize GE’s Tetra Contour Cable lighting, an … [continued]
Cree, Inc. recently announced the creation of the XLamp® XB-D LED, the first LED based on the new Cree technology platform. According to the company, the XB-D LED delivers twice the lumens per-dollar of other LEDs, in the industry’s smallest lighting-class footprint of 2.45 mm x 2.45 mm. The lamp … [continued]
Nothing says “Happy New Year!” quite like the sight of the ball drop in Times Square. Later tonight, close to the strike of midnight, as the countdown begins to ring in the new year, millions of eyes will be on a glowing ball descending from amidst the bright lights of … [continued]
We’ve written about OLEDs (full name: Organic Light Emitting Diodes) a few times on CleanTechnica, including their flexible potential and some work in Germany to bring down their costs. Ernest Beck recently had an interesting piece on ecomagination on the breakthrough work of some OLED researchers from UCLA that we’ve … [continued]
US Foods recently announced it will save an additional 2 million kilowatt hours (kWh) by retrofitting lighting throughout the organization. Since 2007, the company has decreased overall energy use by approximately 8% (34 million kWh) through lighting retrofits alone. “We’re exploring many more opportunities for energy savings throughout the company,” … [continued]
