News Updates for the Week of March 26

1.      OLED Luminaires to be a $6.3B Market in 2017 - Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets has announced the release of its latest report, "OLED Lighting Market Forecast Q2 2012." In the report NanoMarkets presents its outlook on the OLED lighting sector with some notable changes since its last release in 2011. The firm notes concerns with the current economic situation in Europe which is a major center for OLED lighting as well as changes in manufacturing that will dampen prices in the short term but open the door to wider acceptance of the technology as OLED lighting efficiency, panel size and light output improvements bring the technology to the mainstream. This report provides eight-year forecasts for OLED lighting in six different applications. Additional details about this and other OLED related reports are available: http://www.nanomarkets.net/oled_lighting 3/19 PRNewswire via COMTEX 

2.      Despite Naysayers, Green Energy Keeps Growing - All together, solar PV, wind and biofuel markets expanded by 31 percent last year to $246 billion globally, according to Clean Edge’s 11^th annual edition of Clean Energy Trends 2011, a wrap-up of key green-energy indicators. The expansion caps a five-year run during which these markets have grown by roughly a third each year. Clean Edge expects the markets to grow steadily--albeit more slowly--in the decade to come. It projects the clean-energy market will expand by 4.6% per year (compounded) to $385 billion by 2021. http://cleanedge.com/reports/charts-and-tables-from-clean-energy-trends-2012

 

3.      ASHRAE Has Been Asked to Review The U.S. GSA’s Standard P100 - Facilities Standards for the Public Buildings Service http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/pbs/2010_P100_Final.pdf. This standard establishes design standards for new buildings, major and minor alterations, and work in historic structures for the Public Buildings Service (PBS) of the General Services Administration (GSA). This document now contains both performance based standards and prescriptive requirements to be used in the programming, design, and documentation of GSA buildings. ASHRAE would like to receive your comments on this draft. Those comments are due to DD Latham (dlatham@ashrae.org) by midnight Eastern Standard Time, Monday, March 26.

4.      Plastic Bottles Light Up Thousands of Homes in the Slums of Manila - Plastic bottles have become a sustainable way to light many homes in poorer sections of Manila in the Philippines, where many houses are built too close to each other to allow for windows, CNN reported. For many residents electricity is unaffordable or unavailable, forcing them to work and live in the dark. But a new project has shined a light in the darkness - literally.  Based on an invention by an engineer from Amy Smith, an engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the recycled plastic bottles are filled with water and bleach and then fixed into holes on the roof. The bottle bulbs then refract the sun's rays to create 55-watts worth of light. The project has reached about 10,000 homes and aims for one million by 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0_4qFrxw_4&feature=related

5.      Luminus R&D and Testing Lab Accredited for Testing LEDs to LM-80 Standard - Luminus Devices, Inc., manufacturer of Big Chip LEDs™, announced that its Boston-area R&D and Testing Laboratory has been accredited to conduct testing on LEDs to the LM-80 standard, the approved method for measuring LED light sources. The accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 is awarded by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP), and the standard is endorsed by the Department of Energy and the Illumination Engineering Society (IES). For more information, visit www.luminus.com

6.      GE Lighting Revolution Tour on the Road Again - GE Lighting is on the road again with the 2012 GE Lighting Revolution Tour. This tradeshow on wheels is designed to give designers, distributors, architects, contractors, facility maintenance and utility executives a first-hand experience of GE's latest innovations in lighting technology. www.gelightingrevolutiontour.com

7.      Lighting Webinar to Investigate Causes for Compatibility Issues - With government legislative weight behind energy-efficient lighting and changing consumer-purchasing behavior, a problem has arisen in the lighting industry. On Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at 2 p.m. EDT, Electrical Contractor magazine will host a webinar, in partnership with Leviton, on the three main causes for compatibility issues when pairing energy-efficient lamps with dimmers designed for incandescent technology. http://www.ecmag.com/

8.      White Papers by Lois I. Hutchinson at www.lighting.com -

• “Lighting Design Certifications: From A to Z,” a series of eight posts http://lighting.com/lighting-design-certification/
• “Stand By Your Luminaire,” a discussion on the lack of LED luminaire lifetime ratings standards and product warranties. http://lighting.com/stand-by-your-luminaire/

9.      Chattanooga Seeking 'Green' Lighting Compromise - The city may make one more push toward trying to break a stalemate on how many "green" streetlights to install across Chattanooga. The City Council is considering a rollout of 26,000 lights--at a cost of $18 million--with the city floating three bonds over three different years. The City Council reached a stalemate Tuesday night on the best option to pay for the lights and how many to either buy or lease.  The administration brought forth a resolution to spend $6 million on 5,200 lights to cover downtown and some key streets.

3/19 Chattanooga Times

10.  Gasoline Fuel Update - http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/?src=email