LED + SSL

The Designers Lighting Forum of New York (DLFNY) has announced that more than 1,000 lighting industry professionals from North America and Europe and 200 students and educators from New York’s higher educational programs attended its LEDucation IV event to learn firsthand about the latest developments in LED technology.

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On April 14, 2010, from 9AM to 4PM, the Raleigh Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society will present a seminar on LED outdoor lighting for electric utility personnel and other interested people. The event will occur at Progress Energy W. Raleigh Operations Center, 7001 Pinecrest Road, Raleigh, NC 27613, in the second-floor conference room. A [...]

Omega Lighting has combined MesoOptics optical technology from Ledalite with the power of a high-performance LED light engine and Omega Lighting’s optics to produce the 25W Revelation LED Downlight. Check it out here.

Cooper Lighting has announced the introduction of one of the industry’s largest LED outdoor product offerings providing relevant LED solutions for Streetlighting, Area/Site, Wall Mount, Parking Garage, Canopy and Pathway applications. The initial rollout includes 16 new energy-efficient luminaires featuring Cooper Lighting’s patent pending modular LightBAR™ technology and AccuLED™ Optics, designed to provide superior lighting [...]

My friend and colleague, LED expert Kevin Willmorth, recently told me that he has set an ambitious goal of designing and producing 52 all new solid-state lighting based product designs over the 52 weeks of 2010. “The idea is to demonstrate that LEDs are not only here and now, but far easier to design around [...]

Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc. has announced the availability of the Transcend lighting series, a line of plug-and-play LED modules offering luminaire manufacturers a solution for integrating LED lighting into their existing designs. The Transcend lighting series is self-contained and requires no additional circuitry or heat management assemblies. The net result: Luminaire manufacturers now have a [...]

More than $37 million of funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) have been awarded by Energy Secretary Steven Chu for 17 SSL projects in three categories: core technology research, product development, and manufacturing. These awards are the first instance of DOE funding for manufacturing projects. Among other recipients, the following companies will [...]

Winners of the second annual Next Generation Luminaires awards were announced at the Strategies in Light Conference in Santa Clara, CA. Sponsored by the Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society and the International Association of Lighting Designers, the competition was launched in 2008 to promote excellence in the design of energy-efficient LED luminaires for [...]