Philips has just released its SlimStyle BR30 indoor LED floodlight for a low $12.97. The SlimStyle BR30 was built using Luxeon mid-power LEDs, which were constructed at the Philips Lumiled facility in San Jose, California. Efficiency And Performance Of The SlimStyle BR30 LED Lamp This LED floodlight consumes 9.5 watts, and provides 650 lumens … [continued]
Philips’ new 15-watt & 19-watt LED bulbs (75-watt and 100-watt incandescent equivalents) have now received ENERGY STAR certification and can be bought for as low as $10 and $15, respectively, after utility rebates. The LED bulbs can be found in The Home Depot for $19.97 (the 15-watt / 75-watt equivalent) … [continued]
I was recently offered a Philips SlimStyle LED for review. $0 is a pretty good price for an LED, so I took it. I have to admit that this is the first LED I’m using as a “normal light bulb.” All the others we have are CFLs. After about one … [continued]
Philips, the well known electronics manufacturer, has created an LED Lamp that is so impressively efficient that it produce 200 lumens of light for every watt of power it consumes. The efficiency of LED lamps currently on the market ranges from 45 lumens per watt to 90 lumens per watt. This … [continued]
There’s been a lot of energy-efficient lighting news in the past week or so — there was a big lighting event in Las Vegas last week (Lightfair International 2012), and there was big news from other parts of the world as well. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the … [continued]
We wrote about Philips’ new, innovative and super energy-efficient LED bulb last year when it was announced as the first winner of the U.S. Department of Energy’s L Prize competition. (For much more detail on the bulb, check out the link above.) Now, the $60-bulb has been commercially launched — … [continued]
Solar News 1. Fort Hood and Universal Services Fort Hood Inc. have turned on a solar field of nearly 3,000 photovoltaic solar panels. “The four-acre solar field, near Liberty Village community, will generate one million kilowatt-hours of renewable energy annually for 300 single-family homes.” Photo above. 2. The 230-megawatt photovoltaic … [continued]
