Dallas Reduces Energy Costs By 60%

The City of Dallas is leading the green initiative in Texas  by converting five downtown parking garages to energy efficient LED lighting. They are setting the standard for energy efficient lighting technology that reduces energy consumption and operating costs. The City expects a 60% reduction in annual energy use and expects to substantially  reduce maintenance costs over the lifetime of the fixtures. Lumetech Group, a leading provider of commercial LED lighting solutions, and Lighting Science Group, a leading American maker of LED lighting, are installing Lighting Science Group’s long-lasting and ultra-efficient Flat LowBay LED fixtures in garages at Dallas City Hall, Dallas Public Library, the Jack Evans Police Building, the freight terminal beneath Thanksgiving Square and the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.

“The City of Dallas is committed to acting in the best interests of its taxpayers and to improve the efficiency in which it operates." said Ron Natinsky, Dallas Council Member. "I hope that our actions compel the leadership of other cities and private sectors to follow suit,”

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Better Lighting For 90% Less Energy

Americold an Atlanta, GA based provider of temperature-controlled warehousing and logistics to the food industry that owns and operates over 182 temperature-controlled warehouses around the world, has teamed with Groom Energy and Digital Lumens to install Digital Lumens’ Intelligent LED Lighting Systems at Americold facilities located in Massachusetts, Utah and Wisconsin. The new upgrades produce higher quality lighting and reduce overall energy consumption up to 90 percent or 2.3 million kilowatt hours (kWhs) annually. Over the coming months, Groom Energy and Americold are scheduled to upgrade facilities in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois and Texas. The projects will reduce an additional 3.3 million kWhs and 3.25 million pounds of carbon dioxide annually.

Groom Energy developed customized configurations for each location, managing all installation, system commissioning and training. The design delivers lighting “on demand,” producing evenly distributed high light levels when operators are nearby, then automatically dims to “nightlight” levels after operators have exited the area. The mesh networked lighting system continuously tracks and reports energy consumption and savings. “Americold’s feedback during the development process was invaluable to our successful product design. In addition to broad improvements in light quality and energy efficiency, Americold is also leveraging LightRules management software for a detailed view into the facilities’ operational performance and to measure progress toward company-wide sustainability objectives.” said Tom Pincince, president and CEO of Digital Lumens.

Our teams are very pleased with the increased light levels, functionality and the significant energy savings,” said Americold’s Vice President of Engineering, Fred Walker. “From the earliest days of the project, Groom Energy has been working with Americold to design the most effective and efficient lighting system for their facilities, we have been able to provide measurable savings and exceed corporate objectives for light quantity, quality, safety and the overall functionality.”said Bob Kirby, executive vice president and co-founder of Groom Energy Solutions.

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University Of Miami Evaluates LED's

The University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida is working to create a "greener" campus by evaluating LED lighting and other energy efficient products for both interior and exterior applications. The U of M has installed 20 LEDway, BetaLED™ fixtures to illuminate walkways on the main campus and is evaluating LED lighting for interior applications such as conference rooms, hallways and classrooms. Initial installations used for lighting conference rooms and hallways is saving as much as 70 percent on energy costs. The university will use these instalations to evaluate the performance of the LED lighting and other sustainable technologies for future use.

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Redbird LED's Receive ETL Listing Mark

Atlanta, GA based Redbird LED, has received the ETL Listing Mark for their Cardinal™ brand family of LED linear lighting for commercial buildings. These lights have an internal power supply that allows retrofits of existing fluorescent light tubes. Because Cardinal™ linear lights use the same shape and form factor as fluorescent bulbs old fixtures can converted to LED by simply bypassing the ballast and installing Redbird LED linear lights.
The ETL Mark is a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) certified by OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, to test products to the specifications of applicable product safety standards. "We are thrilled that Intertek has tested and certified our LED linear lighting products,” said Jonathan Eppstein, President of Redbird LED."This is an important step in our growth to become a leading provider of value priced high performance LED lighting.”

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Cree XLamps Now In Warm/ Neutral White

Cree, Inc. of DURHAM, N.C., now has XLamp XM-L LEDs available in neutral- and warm-white color temperatures (2600-K to 5000-K CCT). In warm-white (3000-K), XLamp XM-L LEDs provide up to 117 lumens per watt at 350 mA and 108 lumens per watt at 700 mA. The neutral-white (4000-K) XM-L LEDs provide up to 138 lumens per watt at 350 mA, 128 lumens per watt at 700 mA and 84 lumens per watt when driven at 3.0 A.
Unlike competing LED's that use large-footprint packages and diffuse optical sources to deliver hundreds of lumens, XM-L LEDs use a compact footprint and small optical source size allowing manufacturers to control light output and place light exactly where it is required. “Cree is the only LED manufacturer currently delivering production volumes of warm- and neutral-white LEDs at these performance levels,” said Paul Thieken, Cree, director of marketing.
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Tech Lighting Wins NGL Award

Tech Lighting, of Chicago, IL captured a winning spot in the accent track lighting category of the third annual Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) Solid-State Lighting Design Competition. "With 328 products submitted and 138 products qualified based on documentation, it's an honor to be one of four winners in the accent lighting category," said Joshua Weiss, Vice President of Product Development for Tech Lighting.

NGL judges noted the color quality, adjustability and overall design of the LED head.At 18 watts and 810 net lumens, the head offers a high level of performance. The power supply and heat sink fins all sit within the head resulting in a clean, thoughtful and seamless design. 

The NGL competition is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and the International Association of Lighting Designers. It helps promote excellence in the design of energy-efficient LED luminaires for general illumination in commercial lighting applications and make it easier for lighting designers and specifiers to find LED lighting products that are worthy of specification.  Competition judges evaluate products based on a number of factors relating to suitability and quality, as well as energy-efficiency.

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LSG / LPI Team Up To Chase L Prize

Lighting Science Group and Light Prescriptions Innovators have teamed up to develop a highly efficient, high output and low cost 60-watt replacement LED bulb, that they will enter to win the the U.S. Department of Energy's prestigious L Prize competition.

The L Prize, or Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize, was established by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 as a way to promote the development of a highly efficient, high quality LED replacements for the traditional 60-watt light bulb. To be considered for the L Prize a light bulb must work in current sockets, get six times the energy efficiency of an incandescent build (measured in lumen's of light per watt of electricity used), while meeting other high standards for color rendering, life, quality, cost and availability.

"We are confident that our LED bulb developed in partnership with LPI meets or exceeds all of the criteria for the L Prize, making it a strong contender to win the competition, but we also believe that developing this product will further accelerate the transformation of the lighting industry to highly efficient LED technology." said Fred Maxik, founder and chief technology officer of Lighting Science Group. "This LED bulb will help accelerate America's shift away from inefficient, dated lighting products to innovative, high-performance products," said Roberto Alvarez, chief executive officer and president of LPI.

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