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1.
Jason Brown Stumbles, Yet
Charms as U.S. Opens Final Day of Team Figure Skating Event - With the U.S. sitting third in
Sochi’s team figure-skating competition, 19-year-old Jason Brown, son of Steve
Brown, CEO of A.L.P. Lighting and grandson of the founder, Bill Brown. making his Olympic debut, got
the Russian crowd clapping along for his Riverdance-style free skate to “Reel
around the Sun” at the Iceberg Skating Palace Sunday but fell short of the
marks he’s capable of after falling at the front end of three-jump combination. Brown opened with a beautiful triple
axel-triple toe into a camel spin. His program gained steam from there, but the
fall followed. After taking silver at
last month’s U.S. Championships, Brown’s popularity has soared with over 3.5 million
hits on his YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzpyI5oavEo&feature=youtu.be He was introduced to the Olympic audience as "an internet sensation." Jason
helped Team USA win bronze in Team Figure Skating… http://www.washingtonpost.com
2.
DOE
Early Lessons Learned in Bringing SSL to Market - The U.S. DOE has
published a new report that documents early challenges and lessons learned in
the development of the SSL market. Entitled Solid-State Lighting: Early
Lessons Learned on the Way to Market, it summarizes early actions taken by
DOE and others to avoid potential problems that were anticipated based on
lessons learned from the market introduction of CFLs. The report also
identifies issues, challenges, and new lessons that have been learned in the
early stages of SSL market introduction. The report is available at www.ssl.energy.gov/tech_reports.html.
A webinar on the report will be presented on Thursday, February 20, at 1:00
p.m. Eastern Time. For more information on the webinar: DOE
SSL website
3.
Zhaga References NEMA Dimming Spec for LED
Drivers, Notes Safety Requirements - The Zhaga
Consortium has formally added requirements that LED light engines with
integrated control gear support the NEMA SSL 7A-2013 dimming specification and
also noted that socketable modules must meet new UL safety standards. The Zhaga
Consortium has announced that it will now require dimmable LED light engines
that include driver electronics—what Zhaga terms integrated control gear—to
perform in compliance with the NEMA SSL 7A-2013 standard for phase-cut dimming.
http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/2013/10/zhaga-references-nema-dimming-spec-for-led-drivers-notes-safety-requirements.html
4. LEDs Change Thinking About the Light Bulb
- Lights are no
longer just for lighting. With the development of LED lamp technology, the
lowly light bulb is doing more than turning on and off. A lamp can be the
centerpiece of an environment meant to improve health, moods and even food. LEDs can create light in multiple colors, generate
less heat and use a fraction of the energy of older types of bulbs. And LEDs
can be controlled remotely from a PC or smartphone app, as programmable as a
television. Philips sells a range of energy-enhancing lights, including the goLITE BLU,
a panel of blue LEDs. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/technology/personaltech/leds-change-thinking-about-the-light-bulb.html?_r=1
5. Lighting
Up LEDs - "Out
with the Romex Wire: In with the Category 6 Cable"
The relentless penetration of IT has a long history of changing
building systems; transforming analog phones to digital phones, changing analog
surveillance cameras, IP-enabled access control, IPTV as well as a host of
other systems. The next building system to transform to an IT structure is low
voltage LED systems; it's been in the making for a few years and led by some of
the innovative companies and early adopters. It's now at the point that where
we can project that the IT structure for LED lighting systems will become the
new norm. http://www.smart-buildings.com/
6.
2014 LED Industry Directory & Market Database - The
LED Industry Directory from LED Journal is an annual reference guide to LED
manufacturers and suppliers. It contains
important market information organized in a way to make it a valuable reference
tool for industry analysis and contacts including business development and lead
generation efforts. Readers, purchasers, and users of the directory include:
- Manufacturers of LEDs
- Manufacturers of LED Packages/Modules/Arrays
- Manufacturers of LED Applications/OEM Integrator/LED Systems
- Dealers of LED Products
- Service Providers
7. DOE 2014 SSL R&D Workshop Presentations
Posted - Held on January
28–30 in Tampa, FL. 200 attendees explored such
topics as creating added value with intelligent lighting and using spectral
control to shape the lighting experience. The workshop offered a rich mix of
perspectives and insights from manufacturers, research institutions, industry,
academia, and government—and a unique forum to discuss innovative concepts, new
directions, and key barriers that stand in the way of moving the technology to
the next level. The workshop presentations and materials have been posted on: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ssl/tampa2014_materials.html
8. The Electrical
Industry's Top Ten News Stories of 2013 - Two of the Top Ten
stories in 2013 relate to what’s happening in energy:
#4.
Lighting manufacturers acquire niche product manufacturers to fortify their
positions in the LED market. It would be tough to name another
product market that has undergone such a complete transformation as the lighting
business’s fast march toward LEDs. LED new products are obsoleting
entire product categories, an entire generation of new players are moving into
the lighting market from the semiconductor industry, and household names in the
lighting business are trying to reinvent themselves to compete in the
solid-state era.
#8.
Excitement over renewables dies down a bit. With the
exception of the states in the Wind Belt that extends from the Dakotas down
through Texas and those areas where local utilities are building massive solar
farms, it seems like most folks in the electrical business aren’t quite as
jazzed about the sales potential of solar and wind. The local financial
incentives that help support solar in some states are drying up. http://ewweb.com/news/electrical-industrys-top-ten-news-stories-2013
9.
Cary,
NC installing 8,000 American Electric Lighting (Acuity Brands) LED Streetlights - The project, done in partnership with energy provider
Progress Energy, will replace the majority of the city’s streetlights with LED
streetlight fixtures. http://www.newstreetlights.com
10. How
LED Streetlights Will Change Cinema (And Make Cities Look Awesome) - The decision
by the city of Los Angeles last year to replace its HPS streetlights—known for
their distinctive yellow hue—with new, blue-tinted LEDs might have a profound
effect on at least one local industry. All of those LEDs, with their new urban
color scheme, will dramatically change how the city appears on camera, thus
giving Los Angeles a brand new look in the age of digital filmmaking. http://gizmodo.com/led-streetlights-will-change-hollywood-and-make-every-c-1514840416
