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DOE Releases GATEWAY Report on LED Retrofit Lamps

The U.S. Department of Energy has published a report covering a demonstration project involving LED retrofit lamps installed at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco, CA. The report, developed under DOE’s GATEWAY program, covers lighting performance, economic performance and projected energy savings. Halogen wall-grazing luminaires, track lights, and recessed downlights in the lobby and other [...]

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Jim Brodrick on LM79

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy Some of you may have come across references to IES LM-79 that imply that the test procedure is flawed or unnecessary or both, and that there’s a better alternative. You may have heard or read terms like “effective lumens” or “equivalent lumens,” or seen sales literature claiming [...]

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DOE Suspends PAR38 L Prize Competition

The Department of Energy has announced that it will modify the competition requirements for the L Prize PAR 38 category. Effective today, DOE has temporarily closed the PAR 38 competition, and entries will not be accepted until the competition reopens in May 2011. The intent is to change the requirements based on lessons learned from [...]

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Home Depot Devotes Special Section on Website to LED Lighting

Home Depot wrote to me recently to let me know that they have published a special section on their website entirely devoted to LED replacement lamps, with plenty of extra consumer information about LED lighting along with featured products. Check it out here.

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East Cleveland and GE Lighting Partner on Northeast Ohio’s First Major LED Streetlighting Installation

The City of East Cleveland is decreasing energy costs by replacing 45 standard-technology municipal streetlights with GE’s award-winning Evolve LED roadway streetlights. The project grows out of a long partnership between GE Lighting and East Cleveland, which has been the home of the unit’s headquarters for close to 100 years. A one-mile block along Noble [...]

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Jim Brodrick on Domestic LED Product Manufacturing

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy Although you do not often hear about growth in domestic manufacturing here in the United States, the solid-state lighting industry is steadily growing and establishing a manufacturing presence here at home. Solid-state lighting was not only born of U.S. ingenuity and R&D, but is riding the crest [...]

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2010 DOE SSL Market Introduction Workshop Report Posted

The U.S. Department of Energy recently published a summary report for the fifth annual DOE Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Market Introduction Workshop, which was held July 21–22 in Philadelphia, PA.

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Jim Brodrick on Potential Health Effects of LED Streetlighting

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy You may recall that not too long ago, there was some mention in the news media about possible negative health effects of exposure to street lighting. While not all of the stories were completely accurate, we thought we should investigate further, so that’s what DOE did. At [...]

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Lithonia Releases Series of LED Educational Videos

Lithonia has announced the release of a series of five online instructional videos featuring insights designed to help answer the common questions about commercial ambient and other LED lighting design applications. In the video series, Dave Ranieri, Acuity Brands Vice President and General Manager, Lithonia Lighting Commercial Indoor Products, discusses LED technologies and solutions, addressing [...]

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Jim Brodrick on LED Linear Replacement Lamps

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, Department of Energy A few weeks ago, writing about the CALiPER Round 11 testing results, I mentioned that although LED linear replacement lamps are improving, especially in terms of their efficacy, we’re still seeing major performance challenges in the areas of total light output, light distribution, color quality, and reliability. [...]

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