Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Traverse City Installs 700 LED Lights

Traverse City, Michigan. Traverse City Light & Power is installing 705 street lights, pedestrian lights and building lights. The new LED's are replacing high-pressure sodium and other lights in downtown Traverse City. West Grandview Parkway is getting 342 LED streetlights while the farmers market area and downtown are receiving 313 LED gooseneck walkway lights. Fifty building lights were also installed on several schools in the area. In all, the project cost over $450,000. A Michigan Energy Efficiency Block Grant covered $250,000 of the cost of the lights, TCL&P paid almost $64,000 to cover the rest of the cost of the lights along with spending over $136,000 in instillation costs. The LED's are expected to save 463,618 kilowatt hours of electricity each year which will reduce CO2 output by around 706,000 pounds per year.
You can lower your own energy consumption and help reduce carbon emissions by switching from old, inefficient mercury vapor or HID underwater dock lights to much more efficient underwater LED dock lights.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Tech Lighting Wins Three Lightfair Awards

Chicago based Tech Lighting walked away from the LIGHTFAIR International Innovation Awardsas one of the big winners for 2011 . The LIGHTFAIR International Innovation Awards honors lighting industry innovations for lighting-related products and designs. Each product was judged by a panel of renowned lighting professionals. Tech Lighting's ELEMENT LED Adjustable Downlight won Best In Category for Downlights, Wallwashers and Accent Lights and there IBISS LED Head not only won BEST IN Category for Track, Low-Voltage, Cable and Rail Systems category, it also won this years Design Excellence Award which honors one product for outstanding achievement in design and application. "LED has come a long way in the past several years," says Josh Weiss, General Manager of Tech Lighting. "we have fully embraced what is possible with the latest technology. Instead of simply integrating LED into the form of a traditional head, we celebrated what was possible with LED to create a design that never would have been achievable without the advent of LED." LIGHTFAIR International is the largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference in the United States. Shadow-Caster Underwater Marine Lighting makes there own line of innovative underwater LED lights for boats. There SC line of underwater lights is the brightest, most rugged and most well designed line of underwater marine lights on the market today.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Everbody Wins With Switch To LED's

This story from the Columbia Business Times in Columbia, MO shows how everbody wins when electric companies help local businesses switch to energy efficient LED lighting.
Boone Electric Cooperative of Columbia, MO is offering rebates to there commercial and industrial customers who switch to energy-efficient lighting. The rebate covers 40 percent of the costs of switching to more energy-efficient LED bulbs and fixtures. By making the switch to LED lighting businesses substantially reduce there lighting costs, save even more on air conditioning costs because of the lack of heat put out by LED's compared to halogen lights and save on maintenance costs and the cost of replement bulbs. Local contractors benefit from the program because they are often hired by the companies to replace the lights and fixtures. Even the electric companies benefit. Having there customers switch to more energy efficient lighting reduces the need for them to build more power plants. Waterfront restaurants, bars and hotels can lower there lighting costs and bring more customers to there establishment by installing underwater LED dock lights along there docks and seawall. Give your customers what they really want, great water views, even after the sun goes down!

http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/11767/2011/05/27/boone%E2%80%99s-energy-rebate-program-a-bright-idea-for-local-businesses/

Friday, June 10, 2011

Michigan LED Manufacturer Expanding

Relume Technologies, the Oxford, MI based manufacturer of outdoor LED lighting products is expanding its workforce by hiring 15 new workers. The company has already doubled it's 2010 sales and expects to quadruple it's sales by years end. "My plan is to employ 400 people in Michigan within the next three years," says Relume CEO Crawford Lipsey. "We're doing projects from California to Washington, D.C.,". Relumes products include LED street lights, parking lot and garage lights, area and post top lights, traffic lights and LED lights for commercial signage and outdoor advertising. Relume products can save energy and lower costs for businesses or municipalities. There highly efficient LED products utilize patented Silver Circuitry™ technology to burn brighter and last longer than competing LED solutions. Heat is the enemy of LEDs and proper thermal management is the key to making LEDs burn brighter and last longer. Outstanding thermal management is also what makes Shadow-Caster underwater LED lights for boats outshine there compotition. Better thermal management makes Shadow-Caster LEDs brighter then any other underwater LED on the market.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

City Market Saves More With LED's

City Market, Onion River Co-op, Burlington, Vermont's only downtown grocery store has installed energy efficient LED lighting in its 16,000 sq. ft. community-owned food cooperative. City Market chose Digital Lumen's Intelligent Lighting System to replace the 400 watt metal halide lights throughout the facility and LED track lighting and motion-controlled LED freezer lighting from  ElectraLED. The lighting upgrade is expected to save 100,000 kWh of energy per year. The LED lights will also decrease maintenance costs, improved product presentation and reduce premature aging of meat and produce from UV light and excessive heat for the lights. "The lights have been very well received and the whole store has a whole new dynamic of brightness and colors,” says Brent Demers, Facilities Manager of City Market/Onion River Co-op. Energy efficient LED lighting will save you money on energy costs and maintenance costs. The best places to install LED lighting is in areas that require the lights to be lit for long periods of time such as public buildings, parking lots and <a href="http://underwater-lightsusa.com/underwater-led-dock-lights/" >underwater LED dock lights</a>.

Friday, June 3, 2011

Liberty From High Lighting Costs

The inscription on the Liberty Bell could not be more fitting, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof,”. These words, originally meant to declare our country's freedom from a foreign land can now be used to declare our freedom from the high cost of lighting our homes, our streets and our buildings. The National Park Service has taken the first steps in this direction by switching the more then 2700 PAR 38 tungsten lights that had been lighting the Liberty Bell to Par 38 LED lights manufactured by MSi Solid State Lighting of Deerfield Beach, FL.
Since 2003 the Liberty Bell has been housed at the Liberty Bell Center. The glass enclosure allows the bell to be viewed at any time, day or night. This setup makes it easier for visitors to see the worlds most famous bell, but it also means higher electricity costs and more maintenance costs. Before, the tungsten bulbs used to light the bell needed to be replaced every two months. Now, the new PAR 38 LED lamps, shining 24 hours a day, are expected to last 7 years.
LED lighting is becoming the first choice of businesses, governments and homeowners who want to save on lighting costs and reduce maintenance costs. PAR 38 LED lights like the ones used at the Liberty Bell Center can be used in exterior floodlights around homes or businesses. Combine them with underwater LED dock lights as a cost effective way to light marinas and waterfront restaurants.