PHILIPS Lighting Earns 2011 Leader of Change Award |
New York, N.Y. – For its longstanding commitment to sustainability through the development of innovative lighting, including light-emitting diode (LED) technologies, Philips Lighting has been selected as a 2011 Leader of Change Award winner by the Foundation for Social Change and the United Nations Office for Partnerships. [more]
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MSSLC Publishes Model Specification |
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (MSSLC) published
version 1.0 of their new Model Specification for LED Roadway Luminaires. This document was developed by
Consortium members with input from a manufacturer’s working group. Philips Hadco collaborated with this
group in reviewing and providing input to the specification. [more]
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Philips Hadco lights up the City of Boston |
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- Savings of $1.1 million annually in electricity costs expected with 14,000 new energy-efficient LED luminaires.
- LEDs will help eliminate more than 5,000 tons of greenhouse gas annually. |
Philips Hadco and Hurry Associates recently partnered with the City of Boston to convert more than 14,000 of their mercury vapor street and roadway luminaires to energy efficient LED technology. The collaboration further strengthens both Philips Hadco as a leader in sustainable LED lighting solutions and the City of Boston as one of the greenest cities in the U.S. The conversion is expected to save the city approximately 8.9 million kilowatt hours (KWh) of energy each year. [more] |
Colour rendering from LED lighting |
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Specifying white LEDs can be far more complicated than you think
For general road lighting, Lumileds' Hechfellner thinks streetlights need more reason and less specmanship. After all, you will not have forgotten that the incumbent technology has a CRI of 25 max.
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"Is the objective to make cars look good, or higher energy efficiency?" he asks. "We could see 10-15% extra energy efficiency if we went from 70 CRI to 60 CRI. We are struggling to persuade the industry." So don't over-specify CRI if you don't need it, unless you like wasting power.
[To read the full article by author Steve Bush at Electronics Weekly, click here.] |
DOE Announces Philips as First Winner of the L Prize Competition |
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| On August 3, 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Philips Lighting North America has won the first award under the Department's Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition. DOE's L Prize challenged the lighting industry to strive to develop super high-performance, energy-saving replacements for conventional light bulbs that will save American consumers and businesses money. [more] |
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