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1. AEE's GLOBALCON Conference & Expo - Energy, Power, Facility Management Strategies & Technologies - March 7-8, 2012, Atlantic City Convention Center, Atlantic City, NJ http://www.globalconevent.com/registration/
2. DOE Report Compares Life-Cycle Energy Consumption of LED Lamps with Incumbent Lighting Technologies - The U.S. DOE has published a report comparing the energy consumed over the entire life cycle for LED lamps, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), and incandescent lamps. Entitled Review of the Life-Cycle Energy Consumption of Incandescent, Compact Fluorescent, and LED Lamps, it is based on existing life-cycle assessment literature of lighting products. To download a PDF of this report, go to www.ssl.energy.gov/tech_reports.html. The DOE report “2010 U.S. Lighting Market Characterization” (LMC) provides comprehensive and detailed estimates of the national inventory of installed lamps as well as their associated energy use and lumen production. The LMC focuses on four sectors: residential buildings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and outdoor. http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/ssl/2010-lmc-final-jan-2012.pdf
3. Engineers Take Aim at a Barrier in LED Technology - The problem is what’s called efficiency droop. LEDs function most efficiently at low currents. Turn the current up to levels needed for room lighting, and the efficiency falls off markedly. The lights don’t dim, but as you turn up the amount of electricity, you don’t get more light, so the efficiency goes down, a problem that has made it impossible for LED bulbs to be as cost-effective as incandescent or fluorescent home lighting. Other theories suggest a process called carrier leakage, in which at high currents the carriers start to spill away from areas of high performance, or another process, called carrier delocalization, where electrons simply fail to find a paired hole at high electric currents because they are pulled away from the active region where electrons and holes are supposed to recombine and emit light. 2/20 NY Times
4. Mexico Proposes New Energy Efficiency Standards for LED Lamps - Mexico’s Ministry of Energy is seeking comments by 20 March on a proposal to establish new mandatory minimum energy efficiency standards, test procedures, sampling, conformity assessment and labeling requirements for light-emitting diode lamps for general lighting purposes. http://www.hktdc.com/info/vp/a/intmk/en/1/1/1/1X07TMCU/Mexico-Proposes-New-Energy-Efficiency-Standards-For-LED-Lamps.htm
5. Made in the USA Report - In February, Home Channel News published a special "Made in the USA" report, including the products, the stories and the people behind the concept of domestic manufacturing and marketing. The only electrical companies on the list are #15. Leviton dimmers, wall plates and residential wiring products, West Jefferson, N.C.; Tualatin, Ore. Leviton products can be found in the White House and the Statue of Liberty, as well as nine out of 10 homes in the America. #33. Coleman Cable, El Paso, Texas; Texarkana, Ark.; Hayesville, N.C.; Lafayette, Ind.; Bremen, Ind.; Waukegan, Ill. Based in Waukegan, Ill., Coleman operates and manufactures wire and cable products in six manufacturing facilities in the United State. #45. Mulberry Electrical Products, Union, N.J.; Hatfield, Pa.; Freeport, N.Y. The 85-year-old family owned and operated company makes metal and plastic wallplates, weatherproof box covers and conduit bodies. http://www.homechannelnews.com/sites/homechannelnews.com/files/USA_2012_Digital.pdf
6. Philips Joins The Climate Group’s LED Lighting Campaign - Philips Lighting has become the first corporate partner to join The Climate Group’s three-year Clean Revolution campaign http://thecleanrevolution.org/. The partnership aims to speed up the global switch to LED lighting, which offers extraordinary opportunities for significant cuts in both energy use and worldwide carbon-dioxide emissions, according to the participants. The Climate Group is an independent, not-for-profit organization working with governments and business leaders to advance policies, technologies and financing that will accelerate low-carbon economic growth. The participants believe in a swift and massive scaling-up of clean energy technologies and infrastructure to improve efficiency and use of our natural resources. http://www.theclimategroup.org/programs/LightSavers/
7. Saving Taxpayers Money with More Efficient Federal Buildings - There are 445,000 federal buildings in the United States, and taxpayers foot the $7 billion annual bill for their heating, cooling, and operation. The goal of the Smart Energy Act, a bipartisan bill introduced February 14 in Washington, D.C. is to promote efficient energy use in the nation's federal buildings and provide additional funding and loans for energy efficiency improvements in the private sector. An additional part of the bill sets a national goal to double the use of combined heat and power-efficiently capturing the energy that's wasted in industrial processes or electricity production and using it to generate heat and electricity. Using this method will help facilities like hospitals, universities, and military bases cut energy costs. www.fresh-energy.org
8. KCP&L Scales Back Energy Conservation Incentives - Kansas City Power & Light's much-heralded proposal to help its customers use less electricity is in disarray, just two months after it was announced. In December, KCP&L asked state regulators to approve plans that would lock in conservation incentives for its nearly 600,000 Missouri customers. Now the utility is withdrawing the plan for its 270,000 customers in the Kansas City area. Under the KCP&L proposal, customers would be encouraged to conserve energy by getting rebates to buy energy-efficient equipment and lighting. To pay for the program's upfront costs, KCP&L was asking regulators to let it raise electricity rates. But KCP&L, in a new filing with the Missouri Public Service Commission said the conservation plans would have raised rates up to 4 percent, which it could not justify at this time for its Kansas City customers. KCP&L could reconsider in a year or two and again seek approval to bring those customers into the energy conservation program. 2/23 - The Kansas City Star
9. City of Dothan, Alabama Installing Energy-Efficient Streetlights - New energy-efficient streetlights are going up on West Main Street. The new streetlights are 157-watt LED lights by Lighting Orient, an LED light manufacturer and will replace 250-watt high pressure sodium bulbs. The grant from the DOE was for $600,000; about $100,000 of that is being used for the streetlights. 2/23 McClatchy-Tribune Regional News
10. Loan Program Targets Energy Efficiency Projects - The nonprofit Self-Help Credit Union http://www.self-help.org/about-us launched a low-interest loan program Thursday to finance energy-efficiency projects in metro Charlotte. Self-Help, based in Durham, will use a $5.5 million loan and grant from Bank of America, combined with other resources, to offer $15 million in energy loans in Charlotte, Atlanta and six other cities. In Charlotte, the money will be targeted at retrofits of commercial, community and multifamily buildings. 2/17 The Charlotte Observer
11. Lemnis Lighting Launches Low-Lumen LED Retrofit Lamps in the $5.00 Range - The 240-lm, 5W Pharox BLU 200 and 360-lm, 6W Pharox BLU 300 are available immediately on the Lemnis website http://pharox-led.com/us/ priced at $4.95 and $6.95 respectively. The low-lumen output of the initial Pharox BLU offerings will limit the sockets in which they can be serviceably deployed. Lemnis is a relatively small organization depending on partnerships for manufacturing and much of the design work. Lighting manufacturer Philips and Lemnis Lighting have signed a license agreement giving Lemnis access to Philips’ large portfolio of patents related to LED systems and controls. Lemnis has joined Philips’ licensing program for LED-based luminaires and retrofit bulbs. At the same time Philips has obtained access to the LED-lamp architecture and control patents of Lemnis. http://www.ledsmagazine.com/news/9/2/22
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