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1.
Hundreds of LED Lights Illuminate NYC’s 1
World Trade Center Spire - Hundreds of red, white and blue LED modules are
illuminating lower Manhattan as officials test the lights atop 1 World Trade
Center. The port authority of New York and New Jersey said Friday the beacon is
packed with nearly 300 modules and their glow can be seen for up to 50 miles. The
beacon and spire together stand 408 feet tall and bring the building, formerly
called the Freedom Tower, to its symbolic height of 1,776 feet and is deemed the nation's tallest building. 11/08 AP
2.
Con Ed 2012 Rates Highest of Any Major US Utility - Con
Ed's 2.1 million residential customers in New York City and Westchester County
paid an average of 25.65 cents per kilowatt hour in 2012, the data released
Friday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That's more than twice
the national average price of 11.88 cents per kilowatt hour. Con
Ed said in a statement that more than 25 percent of the bill consists of
government-imposed taxes and fees. Long Island
Power Authority customers also paid some of the country's highest rates at 19.03
cents per kilowatt hour last year. 11/12
AP
3.
Status of the
LED Industry 2013 - Growth
of the LED industry has come initially from the small display application and
has been driven forward by the LCD display application. In 2012, General
Lighting has surpassed all other applications, representing nearly 39% of total
revenue of packaged LEDs. Indeed, the LED TV crisis of 2011 (following an
overestimation of the market) had the benefit of decreasing LED prices and
intensifying the competitive environment. As a matter of fact, LED-based
lighting product prices have decreased more rapidly than expected, increasing
the penetration rate of the technology. Yole Développement estimates packaged
LED will reach a market size of $13.9B in 2013 and will peak to $16B by 2018.
Growth will be driven mainly by General Lighting applications (45% to 65% of
total revenue during this period), completed by display applications. http://www.researchandmarkets.com/publication/m9qh8qc/status_of_the_led_industry_2013
4.
Philips On ‘The Future of Light’ - Based
upon expert interviews and more than 50 case studies, the report summarizes 12
trends which have been grouped into four themes showing the way lighting can be
used to create experiences, tell stories, convey information and promote
wellness. The PSFK report highlights projects which collectively demonstrate
the numerous benefits of light, ranging from healthy sleep patterns and
feelings of safety, through to macro issues, including the readdress of
resource scarcity and climate change. http://electricalcontractor.com/?p=11760
5.
Christmas Lights Are Going Green
- The shift is
showing up at stores, which are selling more of the efficient LED lights.
Wal-Mart is devoting half of its shelf space for Christmas lights to LEDs and
offering a string of 50 mini LED lights for $5, down from $6.30 last year. Costco is selling no incandescent Christmas
lights at all. General Electric, which
has peddled holiday lighting for more than a century, expects that two
out of every five strings of lights sold this year will be LEDs. 11/11 The Kansas City Star
6.
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. LED-based lighting will enable higher
illuminance levels on iconic artwork in famed Rome cathedral while preserving
the historically-significant work and utilizing 60% less energy. http://ledsmagazine.com/news/10/11/7
7.
tED
Magazine Prepares to Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary - In 2014, tED
magazine will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Each month, the magazine will
have a special feature looking back on 50 years of bringing you news about
electrical distribution industry. http://www.tedmag.com
8.
MaxLite Launches
Mobile Website - To meet the rapidly
changing needs of customers and other lighting professionals that work in the
field, MaxLite® has launched an easy-to-navigate mobile website that
dynamically displays data sheets, images and information from the company's
extensive product library for use with any type of smartphone. Rather than using downloads, the website will provide
information dynamically and instantaneously. MaxLite's mobile website is
updated daily with new product and application images, specification
information, promotions and other corporate information that is vital to its distributors,
specifiers and sales representatives. View the mobile website from your
personal computer at http://m.maxlite.com
9.
Eaton LED Solutions Improve Lighting for
Georgia Auto Dealership - Power management company Eaton and its
Cooper Lighting division are proving that LED fixtures can provide more than
just energy savings with a recent project for Georgia-based car dealership,
Nalley Honda-Buick-GMC-Isuzu located in Brunswick. To showcase automobiles and
reduce energy expenses, Eaton's Cooper Lighting business teamed up with Georgia
Power to install 76 Streetworks Galleon LED fixtures, resulting in impressive
illumination and an overall energy savings of 60 percent. 11/15 http://www.tedmag.com
10.
Top U.S.
Organizations Using Most Green Power -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its
updated lists of the top Green Power Partnership (GPP) organizations choosing
to use clean, renewable electricity. The top 10 partners appearing on the Top
100 list include:
1)
Intel
Corporation
2)
Microsoft
Corporation
3)
Kohl's
Department Stores
4)
Whole
Foods Market
5)
Wal-Mart
Stores Inc.
6)
U.S.
Department of Energy
7)
Staples
8)
City of
Houston, TX
9)
Starbucks
Company-Owned Stores
10) Apple Inc.
11. One-day
Immersion in LED Lighting Education and Solutions - For specifiers of
commercial, architectural and decorative LED lighting products. http://www.ledspecifiersummit.com/
12. ASHRAE/IES
Publish 2013 Energy Standard 90.1-2013 - Energy Standard for
Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings, incorporates 110 addenda,
reflecting changes made through the public review process. Appendix F gives
brief descriptions and publication dates of the addenda to 90.1-2010 reflected
in this new edition. The most significant lighting changes include improvements
to daylighting and daylighting controls, space-by-space lighting power density
limits, thresholds for toplighting and revised controls requirements and
format. http://www.techstreet.com/ashrae/products/1865966
13. Raleigh Orthopaedic Selects Cree LED Lighting - Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic, one of the city's largest
orthopaedic practices, chose LED lighting from Cree, Inc. for the facility's
new state-of-the-art headquarters and surgery center. The North Carolina
facility installed more than 1,000 Cree® CR Series LED architectural troffers
throughout the 98,000-square-foot clinic. According to Raleigh Orthopaedic, the
newly installed LED troffers will decrease the clinic's lighting energy usage
by 54 percent compared to outdated fluorescent technologies. http://www.tedmag.com
14. Chicago City
Infrastructure Trust Eyes ComEd Efficiency Fund - The money would come from ComEd customers who pay, on
average, $1.24 a month on their bills for energy efficiency programs. The fund
totals almost $160 million annually, money that currently is used for programs
such as swapping out light bulbs and providing rebates on appliances. 11/12 Chicago Tribune
