| Lighting at Santa Fe Public Parks Goes Off the Grid September 8, 2010...Santa Fe Mayor David Coss and Qnuru, a maker of solid state lighting solutions held a ceremony to mark the installation of solar-powered luminaires in three of the city’s public parks. The installation employs Qnuru off-grid fixtures, named the “Santa Fe” in honor of the city that inspired them. They illuminate Frenchy’s Field Park, a 17-acre “natural park” that serves as a links... Kenosha Picks Amerlux for Street Lighting Retrofit ProjectSeptember 3, 2010...Kenosha, Wisconsin will reportedly be retrofitting 750 of its downtown area street lights. The city has engaged Amerlux Global Lighting Solutions to do this project and still maintain its existing street light poles and refractors, thereby saving potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in replacement costs.
"In the spirit of making smart, thoughtful and informed decisions for its citizens, the city of Kenosha undertook a rigorous year-long evaluation process to ensure... Zumtobel's LED Lighting Solution Brightens Hamburg’s Museum of Art and IndustrySeptember 3, 2010...Zumtobel’s Supersystem LED lighting systemhas been incorporated into the contemporary interior design of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. The Museum now welcomes its guests in an entrance hall flooded with light. As the museum’s technical director, Thomas Frey, points out, “From the very beginning we tended towards an LED solution, and now we have achieved a highly attractive result thanks to the professional technical support provided by... Burger King's First Energy Efficient Restaurant Employs LED Technology from Everlight ElectronicsAugust 31, 2010...Burger King opened its first energy efficient restaurant in early June in Waghäusel, Germany, with LED lighting technology from Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd.
According to Everlight and Burger King, the parking area is illuminated by six 60 W SL-Dolphin street lights in neutral white with Phoenix lighting pattern. The SL-Dolphin street lights feature a luminous flux of about 6,000 lm and a color temperature of 5,000 K. The asymmetric wide view... EU Ban on 75-Watt Incandescent Bulbs to Begin, Packaging to Have New InfoAugust 31, 2010...Beginning tomorrow the second stage of an EU regulation for the phase-out of incandescent lamps will be coming into force. The 75-Watt bulbs will gradually disappear from shop shelves. Retailers will be allowed to sell their existing stock, but production of the bulbs by manufacturers and importation of bulbs must cease.
As part of the phase-out plan a uniform Europe-wide duty to inform will also apply to new lamps... Sharp Introduces LED Ceiling LightsAugust 26, 2010...Sharp Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, announced at a press conference that it is following up its LED lamps with LED-based ceiling lights
The new ceiling lights will come in six models in the Japanese market.
The luminaires will use the company's proprietary light diffusion technology. The ceiling lights have a thin design that is 43 mm at the thickest part and just 8 mm at the thinnest.
With three of the... Retail Display Cases Get a Sleek New Look with D-LED Luminaires and Luxeon LEDsAugust 26, 2010...An Israeli jewelry store, Royalty Jewelry, a 430-square-foot boutique in Tel Aviv’s Ramat Aviv Mall, has incorporated new LED-based under-cabinet and in-cabinet fixtures to transform the store. The new LED-based fixtures measure merely 1/10th the height of comparable non-LED luminaires. The store's new showcases have a sleek, more open appearance with better product lighting. The New fixtures from D-LED Illumination Technologies boast 85 percent less power consumption.
D-LED created the... MSi Lighting Helps Las Vegas Retailer Save MoneyAugust 24, 2010...RC Willey, a furniture retailer in Summerlin, Nevada on the western edge of Las Vegas with a 50,000 square-foot showroom decided to replace all of its halogen spotlights.
After doing the math, the company decided to replace the inefficient halogen bulbs with super efficient MSi LED lighting. All of the showroom's 4500 90-watt halogen spotlights were replaced with 10-watt iPAR LED lights. The conversion was a simple matter of...
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... The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued a California-based LED bulb manufacturer and its principals to stop them from exaggerating the light output and life expectancy of its LED bulbs, and misleading consumers. In its continuing effort to stop deceptive advertising the FTC filed a complaint charging that since 2008, Lights of America, Inc. has overstated the... 
