LED + SSL

LED lighting blogger Kevin Willmorth wonders why solid-state lighting seems so alien to lighting decision-makers, and offers interesting insights about how lighting people are coping with the alien invasion. Check it out here.

Albeo Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of LED lighting systems, has announced that customers will now be able to purchase the company’s C-Series solid-state lighting systems through Grainger. Grainger will offer Albeo’s C-Series High-Bay, Linear and GarageLED, Talea undercabinet-LED, plus T8LED Troffer and T8LED Conversion Kit lighting systems. The products will be available through Grainger’s national [...]

Named best of Category in the Track, Low-Voltage, Cable & Rail Systems category at Lightfair 2009, Cooper Lighting’s io radii 38 is an LED track luminaire offered in two light output options equivalent to 90W PAR38 and 35W PAR30 ceramic metal halide lamps. Choice of color temperatures, beam spreads and shielding media. Check it out [...]

The Department of Energy has awarded the ENERGY STAR qualification to Renaissance Lighting Inc. on 11 of its newest all-white solid-state LED downlight fixtures. The ENERGY STAR qualification helps consumers identify the most energy efficient products on the market. ENERGY STAR qualification currently requires an LED recessed downlight fixture to deliver an efficacy of at [...]

The Department of Energy’s Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition has received its first entrant: a product from Philips Electronics. Philips has developed, manufactured and will bring to market an LED replacement for the common 60W incandescent light bulb. Philips developed this product in response to DOE’s industry-wide challenge, and was today recognized by [...]

SSL blogger Kevin Willmorth argues in this post at Architectural SSL Interactive that we are holding solid-state lighting to an unrealistic standard, while ignoring the real issue: the cost of integration of solid-state lighting, such as LEDs, into products.

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., has replaced approximately 12,000 standard incandescent and halogen lights in more than 150 Red Robin restaurant locations in the U.S. with new 7W GE LED PAR 20 floodlights and spotlights in general downlighting applications. The LED lamps, which emit 200 lumens, are expected to reduce energy consumption by 77% while [...]

In September 2009, the Department of Energy is planning to form a Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium to collect, share and analyze technical information and experience related to LED streetlighting demonstrations. Membership will be open to municipalities, utilities and energy efficiency organizations. Click here to learn more.

An interesting potential advantage of LED lighting for buildings is the ability to add a new dimension of control–color–enabling adjustment of color temperature based on different uses of a space or time of day, while also providing high color rendering. LED Journal has published an article on this topic by Muhamad Moussa, technical marketing engineer, [...]