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EU Ban of 60-Watt Incandescents Goes Into Effect
SSLDesign News Staff
September 1, 2011...EU, like the United States, Austrailia, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Venezuela, India and a number of other countries are planning to ban inefficient incandescent bulbs. The bans are a gradual phase out to promote the switch to more efficient technologies such as compact fluorescent bulbs and LEDs. The EU ban of 60-watt incandescent bulbs is the first continent-wide, government ban on incandescent bulbs to go into effect. Cuba has already reportedly switched to efficient bulbs such as compact fluorescent. EU previously banned the sale of 100-watt incandescent bulbs in 2009. Unlike other bans, the initial EU ban does not include incandescent bulbs with reflective surfaces.
As of September 1, 2011, companies in the EU will no longer produce or import 60-watt incandescent bulbs. The bulbs currently on the shelves and warehoused can be sold until current stocks run out. The United States phase-out will not officially begin until January 2012 with the ban on production and importation of 100-watt incandescent bulbs.
Earlier, Osram commissioned a study about the public knowledge of the EU ban. The study found that the vast majority of people were not even aware of the 60-watt bulb ban. (Ref: Coverage). So we will have to just wait and see how things go in Europe with the ban.
Future Lighting Collaborates with Solnar Metrolight to Refurbish Tennis Court Lighting
SSLDesign News Staff
September 1, 2011...Future Lighting Solutions announced the successful completion of a lighting project of refurbishing lighting for the Beijing International Club Tennis Court in Beijing. Future worked with Solnar Metrolight Technology, Inc. to design a lighting scheme that took into consideration the many particular aspects for indoor sports arenas. The designers had to ensure sufficient light for players as well as spectators,while also avoiding any distracting glare.
The project began in May, and involved the replacement of 40 1000W CDM units by 196W. Luxeon-based LED lighting systems.
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Team Selected for Seattle Street Light Visibility Study
SSLDesign News Staff
September 1, 2011...Continuum Industries, Clanton & Associates, and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute announced that they will conduct an solid state lighting and street light control system demonstration project to begin in the fall of 2011 in Seattle, Wash. The project will provide in-situ testing and community feedback. It will also reportedly contribute valuable information in support of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) and International Commission on Illumination (CIE) street lighting illumination guidelines in North America and Europe.
The study will build on prior tests conducted by the team in Anchorage, San Diego, and San Jose. Those previous tests suggested that visibility benefits from broad spectrum street lights could be maintained while dimming to 50% light levels for improved energy savings during certain hours.
The Seattle study will also introduce new variables such as wet roads and asymmetric luminaires. Continuum will support the team with non-engineering tasks, including project management, test preparation, field work, and analysis and reporting. The visibility study is being headed by The Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA). NEEA has calculated the Northwest's potential efficiency savings from LED street light technology coupled with control systems to be up to 150 average megawatts (aMW) each year.
Lighting Science Group and Dixon Technologies Introduce Sub-$15, 60-Watt Retrofit LED Bulb
SSLDesign News Staff
August 30, 2011...Lighting Science Group of Satellite Beach, Florida USA, and Dixon Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, an electronics products manufacturer in India, unveiled one of their first joint products at a press conference in New Delhi. The companies jointly developed a high-performance, sub-$15 omnidirectional 60-watt equivalent A19 LED bulb that will be available in India by the end of the year. LSG plans to sell the retrofit luminaire worldwide early next year.
The LED-based bulb, which leverages LSG's innovative technical design, is the first in a series of products being jointly manufactured and distributed by the two companies. The full line of jointly developed products will include street lights, outdoor and industrial light fixtures and replacement bulbs.
LSG claims that this line of jointly developed products will set a new standard for lighting product performance, producing more light for less energy than any similar products currently available in India.
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East Lyme, Connecticut Lights Downtown with LED Luminaires from Hubbell Lighting
SSLDesign News Staff
August 30, 2011...Architectural Area Lighting, a division of Hubbell Lighting, has provided East Lyme, CT with its first outdoor area luminaires to incorporate powerful LED technology packaged in a designer housing. Just 10 miles west of Mystic, CT, A picturesque New England coastline community on Long Island Sound, East Lyme recently replaced outdated high-pressure sodium (HPS) cobra head lights in its downtown area with LED outdoor luminaires.
Bill Scheer, East Lyme's Town Engineer, wanted to be sure that he found the right person to help overcome the confusion in the market place and select the right technology. He brought in consultant Daryl DeJean of Emerging Technologies Associates at the start of the lighting replacement project to assist in the final choice. In addition to energy efficiency East Lyme wanted the ability to control illumination and use products made in America luminaries to keep jobs in the U.S.
Before making his recommendation, DeJean interviewed downtown merchants, civic leaders, and even the police. DeJean found that collectively the community wanted uniform lighting for greater visibility, cost effectiveness, sustainability. They also wanted aesthetics that would complement the overall streetscape and character of the downtown area. DeJean then compared LED to HID and induction light sources and the manufacturers who made the products. He looked at photometrics, technological accomplishments, design, and sustainability among other characteristics. As a result of his exhaustive research and comparisons, he chose and recommended the Providence luminaire made by California-based Architectural Area Lighting (AAL).
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SSL Summit NYC, Oct 19-20 - Smarter, Better LED Lighting
Tom Griffiths - Publisher
September 7, 2011...The words from our friend Jeff Miller, former president of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD), continued to echo over the last few years. More than once, he commented, "I believe LEDs will be able to give us more efficient and flexible light, I'm just not convinced we're going to get better light." Hmmm... As we looked at how the twice-yearly east and west coast SSL Summit would best serve the industry moving forward, it struck us that while quality is a "big issue" the point was all about getting to better lighting. Not just better LED lighting, but better lighting. The SSL Summit has grabbed that mission and will run with it, focusing not as much where lighting is, but facilitating the discussion on where it is going.
Designed from the outset as a strong "insider's meet", the Summit has consistently delivered on bringing together key influencers in the lighting market, for frank discussions on what the industry is doing right, and wrong, and how to do it better. For the past few years, the theme has been "it's all about quality", up to and including our vetting of not only speakers, but also sponsors and showcase participants, to weed out non quality-oriented participants. For 2011-2012, those hurdles remain in place, but we're expanding the envelope to the broadest defection of lighting, summed up as "Smarter, Better Lighting" noting that "If it's not better lighting, we're missing the point." With a Summit focused on supporting that future of better light, we can make things more encompassing, rolling "quality" into a bigger vision of "better/smarter", to include all aspects of lighting such as quality of design/manufacturing, quality of light itself, smart lighting, application-specific lighting (putting the photons where they matter most), creative fixtures, and more.
While we'll certainly touch on both the good and not-so-good examples of the solid state lighting industry's progress to "take over the world of lighting", we'll also dedicate a large part of the dicussion towards what the future holds, and how to make sure it delivers "better", not just "newer". The goal will be to look out 5-10 years, so participants can remain ahead of the curve in this rapidly-changing, tech-driven revolution. If we only achieve clarity in that 2-5 year time frame, it will still put the participants substantially ahead of their competition, especially at the luminaire level, which is often forced by design cycles into a lagging position, trailing the state-of-the-art by months or more. Most important will be the delivery of "the vision" of what lighting really needs to do for the users in order to be truly better. In our travels and discussions with worldwide lighting manufacturers, we've only encountered a handful that understand that LED lighting is not just about a new emitter to replace the filament or tube, but that it will represent a fundamental shift in how we "do" light, as well as what we do with it. Specifiers are just beginning to think about this, and in the next few years, they'll be demanding things that weren't even dreamed of. We all need to be equipped to meet that demand, and those that aren't will simply disappear.
To begin this expanded and forward-looking course, we've recruited Dr. Robert Karlicek as our lead co-chair (bio here). "Dr. Bob" is director of the Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center at Rennsselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and was formerly CTO for Luminus Devices and Microsemi, as well as GM at Gore Photonics. Bob brings with him a well-respected reputation for advancing the state of the art wisely. Other top-notch influencers are highlighting the conference, including Derry Berrigan, IALD, IESNA, Chief Innovation Officer of Light Think Studios and Principal of Derry Berrigan Lighting Design (bio here), who will be sharing her experience and recent successes, along with new details on a broad-reaching initiative educate the next generation of lighting designers outside the confines of "how lighting has always been done."
You will also be hearing from other notable influencers, including Margaret Newman, AIA, LEED AP, Chief of Staff for the NYC Department of Transportation (not tough to figure out that NYC's streets, sidewalks and parks use a lot of fixtures...), and Shoshanna Segal, IALD, LEED AP, who will be discussing core concepts of our discernment and the impact of the quality of light. The program is a strong one, and if you haven't seen it this week, you haven't seen it, so take a look at the agenda and you'll get the point. The expectation will be set around "information exchange" with the key influencers and decision makers the SSL Summit has proven to be able to deliver on since it's inception.
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Well timed for IESNYC's Control This! event...
You can make your SSL Summit participation even more productive by plugging in to the IES New York City section's upcoming Control This! The Summit wraps up with lunch and a guided discussion Thursday, so right after that, head straight over to The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street where more than 500 lighting design community members are expected to attend this trade show and lecture series dedicated to the challenges facing the industry in lighting controls and energy management technologies. Control This! 2011 will offer guests the choice of six programs within two tracks: Construction & Commissioning and a Design Track. Attendees will see firsthand the latest innovations and product development in the rapidly growing fields of lighting controls and energy management systems by viewing the latest innovations on display by the industry's leading manufacturers. You'll find more information at www.ControlThis.org
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