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The solar panels sparkle on the rooftop of HelioVolt’s 12,000 sq m manufacturing facility. Inside, an elaborate line of printing machines, lasers, chemical baths and ovens — with help from the occasional white-coated human being — transforms a sheet of glass less than a centimeter thick into a solar module in just over two and a half hours. The sheets Read the Rest…

Digital Lumens and Groom Energy have announced that their large-scale lighting deployment for Americold, the country’s largest logistics company for the food industry, has achieved a 90 percent energy reduction. The Intelligent LED Lighting Systems at Americold facilities located in Massachusetts, Utah and Wisconsin produces higher quality lighting and reduce overall energy consumption by up to 2.3 million kilowatt hours Read the Rest…

Today, Philips announced that their Philips Ambient LED 12.5 watt light bulb — which gives off as much light as incandescent 60 watt bulbs, using less energy — attained Energy Star qualifications. It’s the first LED light bulb of this type to gain approval in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sponsored program. Energy Star sanctioned products are usually eligible for Read the Rest…

Dec 10, 2010 Electrician Jesus Berrios shows off the various locations where compact fluorescent light bulbs have been installed throughout New York’s Grand Central Station on May 6, 2008. Replacing incandescent lighting with energy-efficient alternatives could save the United States $9 billion a year and avoid the carbon dioxide emissions of 11 million midsize cars, says a United Nations report. Read the Rest…

Lighting for Tomorrow congratulates the winners of the 2010 competition! The winners of the Solid State Lighting Competition were selected by a panel of expert judges based on color appearance, color rendering, amount and distribution of light, overall aesthetic appearance, and application efficiency. The winners of the Lighting Controls Competition were selected on the basis of functionality, value, ease of Read the Rest…

Induction lighting is one of the best kept secrets in energy-efficient lighting. Simply stated, induction lighting is essentially a fluorescent light without electrodes or filaments, the items that frequently cause other bulbs to burn out quickly. Thus, many induction lighting units have an extremely long life of up to 100,000 hours. To put this in perspective, an induction lighting system Read the Rest…

Silicon Valley has seen the light, and it is an LED. The incandescent light bulb has dominated the global lighting market for more than 130 years, growing into an industry worth more than $100 billion a year. But environmental concerns about efficiency spell an end to that era, and investors and executives in the United States technology capital see light-emitting Read the Rest…

I more or less ditched incandescent bulbs for more-efficient compact fluorescents in my house years ago. But at this point, I’m awfully close to ditching CFLs for the latest in lighting technology: LEDs. LED lighting has got a lot going for it. The lights can be far more efficient than other types of lights, and the bulbs are supposed to Read the Rest…

The Environmental Protection Agency released a list of the cities with the most Energy Star labeled buildings this week. Have a look: It’s an interesting list, but showing the percentage of Energy Star buildings, or the number of Energy Star buildings per capita, would be better as a gauge of a city’s overall building efficiency, of course. I quickly compared Read the Rest…

Wide-ranging line-up of LED light sources Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEM) has applied proprietary technology to develop its own lineup of LEDs — the new, longer-lasting, environmentally friendly light source that is brightening up today’s world. SEM is produces LEDs for outdoor and indoor lighting, as well as sideview and topview type LEDs for mobile products. The company also plans to expand Read the Rest…