LED + SSL

Today’s News & Observer includes a story on Cree’s intent to raise hundreds of millions of dollars by issuing 11 million shares of stock, according to a filing made Tuesday with the SEC. Get the story here. Update: As for September 30, this link no longer appears to be working. I found the story published [...]

The second Solid-State Lighting Manufacturing Workshop, held June 24-25 in Vancouver, WA and hosted by the Department of Energy, drew more than 150 participants studying issues related to SSL product quality and cost. Workshop highlights, presentations and materials have been posted on the DOE SSL website here.

A massive exterior lighting installation built with 75,000 red LUXEON LEDs is raising the visibility of CentralPlaza ChaengWattana, a seven-story, 300-store shopping complex in Bangkok. Thailand’s Lumitron Lighting International engineered and manufactured the lighting installation for the upscale mall, backed by proof of concept and engineering services from LUXEON supplier and LED application development specialist [...]

RESCHEDULED! DOE has rescheduled this webcast for October 8, 2009. Thanks to Joe Salimando for pointing that out to me. On September 10, 2009, the Department of Energy will host a 90-minute live webcast on ENERGY STAR SSL Outdoor Lighting Criteria. The webcast starts at 1:00 PM ET and will include a 60-minute presentation followed [...]

Electrical and lighting contractors are important players in the specifying and recommendation of LED lighting products for building projects, according to a survey conducted by Energy Smart Marketers. According to the survey respondents, contractors are involved in recommending LED lighting more than 70% of the time, while a majority of respondents say they would be [...]

I got my hands on a very informative graphic from Lutron describing how LED drivers–electronic devices that conditioning incoming power to match the circuit design and configuration of the LED array in the light fixture–interact with the LED lighting system. Drivers may be integral to power supplies, separate of power supplies but integral to the [...]

The LED market will experience robust growth over the next five years, fueled by increasingly more powerful and energy-efficient offerings that will help municipalities, businesses and consumers, according to NextGen Research. NextGen Research’s report “LED Lighting: Solid State Lighting Applications, Technologies, and Market Opportunities” forecasts the overall solid-state lighting (SSL) market will achieve worldwide revenues [...]

This is an amazing project. At the Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Color Kinetics‘ iColor Flex SLX strands were manually installed in the glass of the art center, creating the effect as if someone is drawing on the building. Check it out here:

The Department of Energy has completed Round 8 of product testing through its CALiPER testing program, available here. Round 8 focused mostly on replacement lamps, including MR16s, PARs and small omnidirectional replacements. Traditional sources were also tested in each application category for benchmarking and comparison with LED sources. Other products tested included three undercabinet fixtures, [...]