LED Lighting for a brighter future!

Reconvergence:  Beth Comstock has helped guide industry convergence before, when she ran digital media for NBC Universal and the Googles were infiltrating traditional film and broadcasting. She'll try it again at GE as the lighting industry goes Net. LUX Magazine reports: When you're an aging corporate conglomerate and you're trying to decide how your lighting division can survive in the digital era, do you a) get rid of it, or b) try to infuse it with an innovative spirit? For Philips and Siemens the answer has veered toward 'a,' most recently with Philips' announcement this week that it will seek 'alternative ownership' for its lighting group, a move that echoes Siemens' 2013 spin-off of its Osram lighting company. At GE however they're taking a new crack at 'b' with a quiet corporate restructuring in which CEO Jeff Immelt has fused GE Lighting with a division charged with 'growth and innovation' and whose boss, Be...

Lux Magazine Reports: When you live in a private apartment block in Edinburgh, the stairwell lighting can be like an extension of the outdoor street lights in the sense that the Edinburgh City Council pays for it. And so it is that the great British streetlight battle has gone indoors. No, the Edinburgh City Council is not turning off the stairway lights. Rather, the Council is – you guessed it – replacing around 90,000 bulbs in thousands of the city's so-called tenements with energy saving LEDs models, according to the Edinburgh Evening News. The city expects the £9 million project to cut energy consumption and slash costs by 50 percent. Edinburgh's tenements include the historic privately owned buildings that make up a large part of the city's distinctive housing stock, known for stone facades, high ceilings and ornamental detail. Many of them date from the 19th century; some are older, and some date up to the 1970s. Various public policies look after t...

Lux Magazine reports: Let's say you're in charge of energy use at the company and you want to take big steps to slash the bill. Who you gonna call? A building insulator? A smart meter salesman? The most common answer is.... 'An LED vendor.' That's according to a poll of over 100 UK energy professionals in the public and private sector by Energy Live News (ELN), which asked them to name which measures they took over the last year, and which ones they are planning. 'LEDs were the most popular choice for energy professionals to save energy over the last year – and they look set to remain favourites for the next 12 months,' the website reported. 83 percent of respondents said they tapped LED lighting over the last year, and 80 percent said they'll bring in LEDs over the next 12 months. The number-two measure both for last year and the upcoming one didn't even involve outright product purchases, as managers reported that 'changin...

Lux Magainze report: Energy-efficient lighting has come out top in a survey of green technology investments for businesses. Over three quarters of businesses (77 per cent) polled by the Carbon Trust said they had invested in energy-efficient lighting in the past year, while 59 per cent had invested in employee training and 57 per cent had invested in energy metering and monitoring. Almost all businesses surveyed said energy efficiency was an important consideration when buying or upgrading equipment. However, the survey also highlighted reservations about the transition to the new technology, with only half of respondents (51 per cent) saying they were confident about manufacturers' energy-efficiency claims. Hugh Jones, managing director of business advice at the Carbon Trust said: ‘Our survey showed that return on investment is the most important factor for organisations considering investing in energy efficiency and low carbon technologies.’ The survey com...

Lux Magazine reports: The government is considering ways to slash demand for energy by encouraging homes and businesses to install low-energy lighting and controls. A consultation on ways to reduce demand for electricity was launched yesterday together with the Energy Bill, and runs until the end of January. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) believes that a quarter of the potential energy savings to be made in homes by 2030 could come from getting rid of incandescent lamps, while lighting and controls could account for more than a third of savings in commercial properties and nearly half in the public sector (including streetlighting). In the residential sector, the major barrier to adopting these technologies is a lack of awareness, the government believes, while in commercial buildings the main problems are the payback period on lighting upgrades and the fact that the person using a building and paying the bills is not always the one with the power to...

Lux checks out the new LED lighting installed at Costa Coffee in Gidea Park, Essex. Novel Energy Lighting works with business and shops to supply and install LED lighting to save clients energy and deliver long term cost of ownership savings

Lux Magazine report: Facing criticism that he is missing his carbon reduction goals, Mayor Boris Johnson has found an additional £11.5 million – most of it from the European Union – to retrofit London's buildings for energy efficiency. The new financing extends a three-year old scheme called the London Energy Efficiency Fund (LEEF) that has helped install LED lighting, solar panels, insulation, new boilers and other technologies aimed at cutting energy consumption in private homes and in public buildings such as schools, libraries, hospitals and town halls. 'We need to do everything possible to make the most of our resources, reduce carbon emissions and create a more secure, cost-effective and sustainable heat and power supply across London,' Mayor Johnson said in a  press release . His critics would agree. A month ago, the London Assembly's Environment Committee said the mayor was falling well  short of the carbon reduction milestones  he ...

The Philips MASTER LEDtube Value InstantFit has been selected as a finalist in the category Innovative Lighting Product at this year's Electrical Industry Awards. The winner will be announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday, 23rd October at The Royal Garden Hotel, London. Philips MASTER LEDtube Value InstantFit The  Philips MASTER LEDtube Value InstantFit  has been shortlisted in the category of  Innovative Lighting Product   at this year's   Electrical Industry Awards.   The winners will be announced on Thursday, 23rd October 2014. Organised by Electrical Times, the awards are the trade's longest running and highly respected awards.  Showcasing innovations and achievements, The Electrical Industry Awards are a highlight on every calendar!  The  MASTER LED tube Value InstantFit  is a new replacement for fluorescent tubes that can  be fitted in just a few seconds, with  no nee...

Energy efficient controls from LightwaveRF have been used in conjunction with Megaman’s energy saving lamps in a demonstration house at the BRE (Building Research Establishment) in Hertfordshire. The house forms part of the seminal sustainable refurbishment project, the BRE Victorian Terrace, on BRE’s Innovation Park. BRE Launch Energy efficient controls from LightwaveRF have been used in conjunction with Megaman’s energy saving lamps in a demonstration house at the BRE (Building Research Establishment) in Hertfordshire. The house forms part of the seminal sustainable refurbishment project, the BRE Victorian Terrace, on BRE’s Innovation Park. The park is a mini-community of demonstration homes and buildings that have pushed the boundaries of global knowledge on delivering sustainability in the built environment.  It features a range of unique and diverse approaches to sustainable design, construction and refurbishment and a host of innovative low carbon products, ...

Are you conscious of your increasing electricity bills ? At least 25% of that bill will be due to lighting, from using traditional bulbs and tube lights. Traditional lights like incandescent bulbs emit a lot of heat, as they use chemicals like mercury and phosphor to glow. What’s more, these lights are known to consume a lot of electricity to produce light, which is why your energy bills are so high every month. LED lighting technology, uses electricity in a smarter way.Unlike traditional incandescent bulbs, LED’s do not require any warm up time to emit light. Therefore you get instant illumination when switched on. And since they consume less energy they don’t heat up excessively, thus reducing fire risks. For top quality LED lights, consider the leading lighting manufacturer, Philips. They produce LED  lights come different product ranges like LED GLS bulbs, spots, tubes, candles, lamps, etc. What’s more, each of these lights come of different wattages to suit...