January LED Lighting News

With energy prices climbing it is more important than ever that we
support products and technology which conserve energy.

Numerous cities in the USA are changing to LEDs.
Ellwood City Borough in Beaver and Lawrence
counties started by replacing 135 traffic lights with
energy-efficient LED lights, planning to save the
municipality and taxpayers more than $14,000 for
the year.In Austin Texas in early 2007, the City Council
created an Energy Efficient Taskforce.They replaced
90% of all city buildings with efficient lighting.

Incandescent light bulbs in traffic lights were replaced
with Light Emitting Diodes, reducing energy consumption
by 90%.
In October 2008 an announcement by the
New York State Energy Research and Development
Department encouraged people to upgrade their old
christmas lighting to LEDs stating that LED lighting
strands last up to 11 seasons, rarely burn out and will
save you up to $100 per year on your energy bill.
Boston’s Prudential Tower is on the important list of
landmark skyscrapers that use LED lighting fixtures
to dynamically transform their facades.High performance
LED spotlights have been installed on the buildings’s
crown, saturating the local landmark with vivid colour
and colour changing effects.The colour scheme can be
changed to support local events, celebrate holidays,
reflect the brand colours of individual organizations etc.

The UN Climate Conferance in Copenhagen’s Bella
Center where the main conferance sessions took
place in December 2009,had new energy-efficient,
solar powered LED lighting installed.By changing
the outdoor lighting and using LED luminaires on
the new lamp posts the energy savings of up to 67%
will reduce the urban carbon footprint.
In the Japanese city of Yokohama the Marine Tower
is looking bright
with LED lights adding glamour to the city at night.
Beautiful landscape lighting plays an important role
in urban development.LED lighting is a safe method
of delivering energy to light up the cities and landmarks
to add joy to city life.Many supermarkets throughout
the country are embracing the green building movement
to reduce hefty utility costs.
Developers are very conscious of changing to
environmentally-sustainable projects.They are
using LED lights which reduce energy consumption
by at least 67% .

Supermarkets have also installed LED lights in freezer
cases.There are no starting problems in cold
environments because LEDs are ‘instant on’ with
no warm up time needed as seen in conventional
CFL lighting.

Importantly LED lights do not contain environmentally
hazardous metals such as mercury or sodium and
do not emit potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation
or infrared radiation like halogen lamps.
Maintenance costs over the long life of around 30,000
hours will be nearly non-existant.

The advantages of LED lighting adding to the lowering
of world’s carbon footprint cannot be underestimated.