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Energy Smart LED Bulbs from GE Allow LED Lights to Be Used in General Applications

Two new lamps from GE Consumer & Industrial - a 7-watt GE Energy Smart LED PAR20 lamp and a 10-watt GE Energy Smart® LED PAR30 lamp - enable restaurants, retailers and other commercial customers to make significant strides toward general lighting with white light emitting diodes (LEDs)

7 Jul 2009

Smart, Energy Efficient Street Lights in Palo Alto Increase Light Quality While Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Plus Energy and Maintenance Costs

Echelon Corporation announced today that the City of Palo Alto is demonstrating smart, energy efficient streetlights based on Echelon's LonWorks technology. The City aims to reduce energy and maintenance costs and lower greenhouse gas emissions, while improving light quality. Currently, the city's 6,300 streetlights cost around $700,000 annually in energy and maintenance costs

7 Jul 2009

First Colorado City to Have All LED Street Lights is Ouray

Through joint efforts between San Miguel Power Association, Inc. (SMPA), The City of Ouray, Tri-State Generation & Transmission, the Governor’s Energy Office, and Beta LED, Ouray, CO will officially become the first city in the state of Colorado to have 100% LED street lighting

6 Jul 2009

Super Efficient Lighting Just Around the Corner

New developments in a substance which emits brilliant light could lead to a revolution in lighting for the home and office in five years, claims a leading UK materials scientist

2 Jul 2009

SANYO Eneloop Lamp Becomes a Rechargeable Flashlight When Picked Up

SANYO is pleased to announce the release of a rechargeable interior light, “eneloop lamp,” as a new addition to the “eneloop universe products.”

30 Jun 2009

Higher Light Output From New Cost-efficient White DomiLED Light

DOMINANT introduces a new high intensity white DomiLED, the DDW-KJG. This product family also includes a High Color Rendering Index (CRI) version, the DDW-KJC

29 Jun 2009

Low Energy LED Lights Create Unique Shopping Experience

LED luminaires from OSRAM’s innovative new range have been used to create a unique shopping experience at The Trafford Centre in Manchester

24 Jun 2009

Next Generation OLED Materials From DuPont Can Last For Over 100 Years

DuPont today announced the development of its new, proprietary "Gen-3" solution-based organic light emitting diode (OLED) materials technology that can last a record lifetime of more than 1 million hours - equivalent to over 100 years of constant use

24 Jun 2009

Environmentally-Friendly KFC and Taco Bell Restaurant Earns LEED Gold Certification

Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company and parent of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, has constructed the Company’s first building under the United States Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program. Their KFC-Taco Bell restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts has been awarded LEED Gold certification

23 Jun 2009

UNEP Welcomes Action On Combatting Climate Change Via Restriction of Hydrofluorocarbons

A scientific paper, highlighting the need to accelerate action over a group of gases known as Hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) as part of the climate change agenda, was today welcomed by the head of the UN Environment Programme

22 Jun 2009