LEDs Outdoor Lighting Newsletter | July 21, 2011

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Headline News
LED street lights saving serious cash in Seattle
 The city of Seattle has installed thousands of LED street lights and is reaping the benefits in terms of hundreds of thousands of dollars of savings.
Philips to acquire LED outdoor-lighting specialist Indal
 The Spanish company will join Philips’ Professional Luminaires business and add to its capabilities to offer LED outdoor lighting.
Solar LED-lighting consortium releases introductory recommended practices
 The Consortium for Solar Lighting that formed back in April has released an introductory recommended practices document for outdoor LED-based SSL applications.
Tempe vetoes LEDs, chooses induction street lights
 US Lighting Tech announced that it will supply the city of Tempe, Arizona with 1000 induction street lights after the city decided LEDs weren’t a good match for the desert temperature extremes.
Application Stories
LED street lights improve visibility at UK highway junction
 Philips recently collaborated with the UK Highways Agency to install LED streetlights at a critical access road to improve visibility while reducing required maintenance.
Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores shines smartly with largest US installation of GE LED parking lot lights
 Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores has retrofitted its parking lot at its Hudson, Ohio, headquarters and adjacent store with high-efficiency Evolve LED Series Area Lights from GE Lighting
MHA Lighting saves Roadchef 70% on service-station lighting costs
 UK-based Motorway Service Area (MSA) operator Roadchef has saved 70% on lighting costs after installing 86 under-canopy LED fittings at one of its biggest service stations.
BetaLED street lights installed in Cody, WY, the Rodeo capital of the world
 In 2008, Cody, WY began working on a street light retrofit project with the idea that new energy-efficient lighting technologies would reduce energy and maintenance costs.
Articles
Lightfair International report, section 6: Outdoor Lighting
 Lightfair 2011 delivered LED-based lighting innovation in many forms. A-lamp and linear products took center stage, while new outdoor-lighting fixtures and modular SSL products also emerged, reports Maury Wright.
More Application Stories
Zumtobel designs dynamic LED facade for huge Korean shopping mall
 The Galleria Centercity shopping mall in Cheonan, Korea is wrapped in 22,000 programmable LED luminaires, creating a dynamic façade that covers 12,600-square-meters.
Philips installs LED lighting in Edinburgh’s Victoria Park
 Royal Philips Electronics has installed highly energy-efficient street lighting installations across seventeen key points within Edinburgh’s Victoria Park conservation area.
Crystal LED ring-lights illuminate Ferrari World fountains
 Crystal has supplied unique fixtures, which combine the LED lights and water nozzle into a single component, to the water feature at the entrance to Ferrari World on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi.
Obelux to install high-intensity LED obstacle lighting on 327m-high mast
 A high-intensity LED lighting system will replace xenon lights in an aviation obstacle application in Tiirismaa, Finland.
Products
GE expands outdoor LED lighting product line with 10 new offerings
 GE Lighting has expanded its full-line of products for retailers and municipalities with 10 new outdoor LED lighting products that provide energy and maintenance savings with a rated life of 50,000 hours.
Ambergreat introduces Amberstar 252W, 25312-lm LED street light
 Amberstar, the latest generation of LED street light from Ambergreat, uses high-brightness Cree LEDs, with a light efficiency of 107 lm/W.
Relume Technologies launches sales tools for retrofit street lamps
 Relume Technologies has launched new online sales tools, featuring new branding, brochures, sales sheets, specification sheets and customer training presentations.
Zhihai releases new multi-function LED light up to 1000W HID retrofit
 Zhihai Power Technology has released its new generation LED light, the Genius series, which can be used for street lighting, floodlighting and pendent lighting.

 

 

 

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