1. DOE Webinar on Early Lessons Learned in
Bringing SSL to Market - On Thursday, February 20, at 1:00 p.m. EST,
the U.S. DOE Solid-State Lighting Program will host a 60-minute live webinar
entitled Solid-State Lighting: Early Lessons Learned on the Way to Market.
DOE has just published a report summarizing key efforts to date and identifying
12 lessons about LED market development thus far, with an eye toward rapid
market growth – enabling huge energy savings and improved lighting service – in
the future. The webinar will describe the 12 lessons and attendees will be able
to submit questions, comments, and their own takeaways from the LED lighting
market experience to date. For more
information, or to register, visit the DOE
SSL website
2.
The Port Authority of NY and NJ Awards
Contract for $2.1 Million Lincoln Tunnel Lighting Upgrade - Constellation announced that it has been
awarded a contract by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for the
installation of 2,300 energy efficient LED lights in the Lincoln Tunnel.
Facilities Solution Group (FSG), located in Perth Amboy, N.J., installed the
system. Green RG Management, based in North Arlington, N.J., provided the LED
lighting fixtures. Green Econometrics, in Clifton, N.J., conducted the energy
efficiency analysis of the project. Bernie Erickson, Northeast Regional Manager
for FSG stated, "FSG values our longstanding relationships with both
Constellation and the Port Authority, and we were pleased to play a part in
this exciting project." 2/03 BUSINESS WIRE
3. NPPD, Others Offer Incentives for LED Bulbs - The Nebraska Public Power District and its
wholesale customer utilities are offering incentives to residential electric
customers for the purchase and installation of LED bulbs with a $5 account
credit for each Energy Star-qualified 60-, 75-, or 100-watt LED equivalent to
the standard bulb they buy, with up to 10 credits available per residential
account this year. NPPD www.nppd.com and
its wholesale customer utilities are contributing approximately $100,000 toward
this campaign in 2014. 2/10 Public Power
Weekly
4.
Orlando Is One of 10 Cities
Picked for $9 Million Energy Project - The City Energy Project
will pay for a building-efficiency expert to work full time in each of the
cities and to finance additional expertise as each city rolls out plans to
lessen the energy used by municipal and privately owned buildings. The other
cities are Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles,
Philadelphia and Salt Lake City. They were selected for
"ambitiousness" and range of sizes and types. http://www.cityenergyproject.org/
5.
Grissom Air Reserve Base Paves
Way for Energy Savings - The
U.S. Department of Defense has an annual energy budget of approximately $20
billion, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of the federal government's total
energy consumption. U.S. military bases
alone rack up a $4 billion energy bill annually. One of the most innovative and
groundbreaking projects at Grissom was the recent installation of a $100,000
geothermal heating and cooling system. It's the first unit of its kind ever
installed on an Air Force Reserve Command base. Other energy-saving upgrades
include the installation of low-flow plumbing, better HVAC controls, energy
efficient lighting, and infrared heating systems. Grissom spent more than
$900,000 last year on those projects.
1/30 AP
6.
LED Lighting Emphasizes Natural Beauty in Museo
Del Duomo Zumtobel Arcos
Xpert LED spotlights have been deployed during the just completed two-year
renovation of the Museo del Duomo -- the Museum of the Cathedral located at the
Milan Cathedral in Italy. The UV- and IR-free lighting with a CRI of 94
highlights the historic sculptures, paintings, and scale models of the
cathedral with the oldest model dating to 1519. Zumtobel supplied a variety of LED
lighting products for the renovation including Panos Infinity downlights,
Tecton row lighting, and Linaria fixtures in side rooms. http://www.ledsmagazine.com
7.
Toshiba Progresses in
Louvre Project, Lights Mona Lisa
with LEDs - A
custom controllable SSL fixture now provides adaptive lighting on the famous
Mona Lisa painting, and linear LED fixtures have been installed in the Red
Rooms. The Louvre Museum in Paris,
France will ultimately see most of the lighting converted to LEDs. Toshiba said
that the design uses 32 LEDs along with a control system and optics that ensure
uniformity of lighting and frame the painting. The dynamic system was developed
to enable museum workers to adjust the spectrum of the light to compensate for
color shift that is due to ambient lighting and the way that lighting hits the
protective glazing on the famous painting.
See the video: https://www.toshiba.eu/lighting/en/news-events/mona-lisa
8.
Osram LEDs to Light The Sistine Chapel's
Michelangelo Frescoes - The
project, involving custom-designed fixtures optimized for beam control and with
a color spectrum that will highlight the pigmentation in the frescoes, will be
completed next year, although a pilot project entitled LED4Art has already
proven the concept. While LED-based solid-state
lighting (SSL) has long offered efficiency advantages compared to legacy
sources, it's a fairly recent development in which LED fixtures have become accepted
in museum or historical settings where artwork is omnipresent. http://www.ledsmagazine.com
9. IKEA to Donate Solar Lighting to Refugees with Each LED Bulb Purchase
- For
the 10.5 million refugees around the globe, much of their lives are spent in
the dark. In partnership with the United Nation Refugee Agency (UNHCR), IKEA
announced that for every LEDARE LED lightbulb sold in its stores, it will
donate €1.00 (U.S. $1.34) to UNHCR refugee camps for solar lighting,
fuel-efficient cooking stoves and other renewable energy technologies. http://www.ikeafamilylivemagazine.com/gb/en/article/35914
10. DOE’s
Solid-State Lighting: Early Lessons Learned on the Way to Market - This
study identifies and characterizes 12 key lessons that have been distilled from
DOE’s SSL Program results. http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/ssl/ssl_lessons-learned_2014.pdf
11. Public Lighting Authority to Install LED
Lamps in Detroit - The state-created Public Lighting Authority is looking for LED suppliers to speed
up the $160 million relighting project of Detroit. The authority decided to exclusively use LED lamps and
accelerate the pace of installation with a goal of completing all city
neighborhoods with 50,000 new LED lights to be
installed over the next two years. Fewer
than half of Detroit’s 88,000 streetlights are believed to work. 2/12
Detroit News
12. York
County PA Commissioners Poised to Spend $2.4 Million for Efficiency Projects - The
board is considering making an amendment to an existing contract with
Harrisburg-based McClure Company. The
county has already spent about $6.1 million on facilities upgrades, under
McClure's guarantee that the company would pay the difference if county coffers
didn't save the $380,000 per year McClure said would be saved. Under the current proposal, projects include
heating and air-conditioning improvements, more interior and exterior lighting
upgrades at various facilities, and transformer replacement. 2/13 The York
Dispatch
13. Linear
Fluorescent Lamp Shipments Retreat During Third Quarter of 2013 - NEMA’s
shipment indexes for T5, T8 and T12 lamps retreated during 2013Q3, decreasing
by 7.3%, 9.4% and 5.5%, respectively. Year-over-year (y/y) performance showed
mixed results for the different lamp types. The T5 lamp index increased by 5.7%
compared to 2012Q2. T8 lamp shipments improved as well increasing by 10.7%.
Shipments of T12 lamps continued to decline, registering a decline of 6.3%
(y/y). http://www.nema.org
14. 2014 Lighting for Tomorrow Competition - Since 2002 the annual Lighting for
Tomorrow competition has encouraged manufacturers to develop well designed,
energy efficient lighting products - the best decorative energy efficient
lighting fixtures in the market. The 2014 competition
seeks lighting control devices, solid state lighting (SSL) fixtures,
replacement lamps, and retrofit kits. This year there is a particular interest
in securing high lumen LED lamps, LED lamps under $10, LED fixtures under $50,
high efficacy LED products, high CRI LED products, OLED fixtures, and senior
friendly lighting products. Guidelines: http://www.lightingfortomorrow.com/
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