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OSRAM Opto Semiconductors recently announced that it has launched a new section within its LED Light Site www.ledlight.osram-os.com, labeled LED Fundamentals. The online tool is dedicated to providing instruction and educational tutorials on a range of subjects from LED lighting applications to LED system design considerations, and with a special focus on engineering discipline for [...]

The high-brightness (HB) LED lighting market (packaged chips) continues to grow and is forecasted to reach $4.3 billion by 2014, according to LED Luminaire Market Review and Forecast 2011, a new report by Strategies Unlimited. With this explosive growth, the HB LED fixture market will follow in the same fashion–growing to more than $8 billion [...]

The National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP) at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Lighting Research Center (LRC) released its latest publication, Specifier Reports: Streetlights for Local Roads, designed to provide objective performance information on streetlights for local roads in residential areas. Municipalities across the United States have applied for funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment [...]

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) Emergency Lighting Section has launched its Premium Exit Sign Program, which establishes standards for and encourages the use of high-performance exit signage. Unlike other NEMA Premium programs, this effort does not focus strictly on energy efficiency. Instead, the goal of the NEMA Premium Exit Sign Program is to increase [...]

The Department of Energy has published the summary report from the 2011 DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) R&D Workshop, held February 1–3 in San Diego, California. A PDF copy of the report may be downloaded here. Three hundred and fifty participants joined DOE to share perspectives on “Transformations in Lighting,” including representatives from industry, academia, research [...]

Amerlux has announced a new 10-year warranty that began applying to the company’s LED luminaires starting February 1, 2011, demonstrating strong confidence. Click here to contact your Amerlux sales representative and request a warranty document detailing complete information, terms and conditions.

The U.S. chapter of the International Commission on Illumination (Commission International de l’Eclarage) – CIE/USA is hosting a series of seminars on solid-state lighting. The seminars begin at 7:00AM, May 19, 2011 at the Philadelphia Airport Courtyard Hotel (Philadelphia, PA), the last day of LIGHTFAIR, which is being held in the same city May 17-19. [...]

I’m pleased to announce that I have finally completed the long awaited (by my publisher) update to The Lighting Management Handbook, which came out in 1994, with this 300-page book about redesigning existing lighting systems: Lighting Redesign for Existing Buildings. Because light is used to see but cannot be seen, it is often overlooked by [...]

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy A number of … readers have written regarding a recent study by researchers at the University of California campuses in Irvine and Davis, which reported the presence of hazardous materials in some LED products. Some statements made by the authors have drawn a great deal of media [...]