LED Lighting for a brighter future!

Royal Mail has replaced fluorescent lamps with LEDs at 16 centres across the UK, saving 11GWh of energy per annum Lux reports: Royal Mail Group has reduced its energy demands by 11GWh per annum by replacing lighting with LED lamps and additional controls across 16 mail centres within the UK. The replacement programme converted 200,000 m2 of operational floor space and saw the removal of approximately 20,000 fluorescent lamps. The financial payback period was 2.5 years. The LED lighting replacement programme represents a significant commitment by Royal Mail Group to reduce energy usage throughout its portfolio. In addition to the 11GWh annual energy saving, further substantial benefits include a reduced maintenance liability by the removal of fluorescent lamps. Royal Mail worked closely with the contractors and supply chain to optimise a programme designed to have zero impact on mail centre operations in terms of mail throughput and disruption. Royal Mail Group Property enga...

Looks like a streetlight, acts like a computer:  GE LED streetlights in San Diego, where intelligent, connected lighting could monitor things like traffic and crime. The new 'Current' services group embraces CEO Jeff Immelt's industrial internet strategy, treating LEDs as computers that route information. The conventional lighting group -no longer called GE Lighting- keeps the old stuff. It's possibly for sale. How do you make a viable business out of selling price-wracked LED lighting? If you're a big industrial conglomerate like General Electric Co., you basically stop treating the bulbs as a sales and profit item, and instead consider them as a tool and a cost in a radically reshaped model that relies on selling a wide range of industrial and commercial services. That is the take-away message from the $148.6 billion industrial giant's most recent reorganisation of its lighting business in which it moved commercial and industrial LEDs into a broad ne...

A panel of NHS facilities and energy managers and lighting professionals come together to discuss how lighting in hospitals can be tackled to improve patient outcomes and save energy

A panel of NHS facilities and energy managers and lighting professionals come together to discuss how lighting in hospitals can be tackled to improve patient outcomes and save energy NHS Trusts are in the midst of a period of huge technological change. The rise of LEDs and controls are enabling Trusts to benefit from huge energy savings and improved quality of light, with paybacks of under five years. At the same time, there is a growing awareness of the potential health benefits of biodynamic and circadian lighting, yet there are still very few examples of this cutting-edge thinking appearing on patient wards. Is this because there is a reluctance to innovate within Trusts or is it because the science behind circadian lighting is still not fully understood? Lux, in association with Aurora, invited a panel of industry experts, with participants including facilities managers and engineers from NHS Trusts, lighting designers and consultants, to its Healthcare Forum to discuss the...

Energy saving lighting expert Megaman UK has introduced the Kara integrated LED interior floodlight to its rapidly expanding fixtures range. The 26W integrated fixture, Kara, delivers an excellent performance with up to 2400 lumens, two colour temperature options - 3000k and 4000k and a lamp life of up to 50,000 hours.  The fitting has a fully adjustable tilting head which makes it perfect for applications such as retail cabinets and window displays where precision light is required. Kara is also an excellent choice for general retail displays and wall lighting.  The Kara LED floodlight is also available as an emergency lighting option. Kara comes with Megaman’s generous 3 year warranty, for more information on Kara and the wide range of fixtures offered see the website: www.novelenergylighting.com 

Lux Reports: Quantum dot technology set to be commercialised...European lamp ban goes ahead...and a new lighting show for the Middle East. Lux Today Oct 13 2015 presented by Courtney Ferguson.

The EU Streetlight-EPC initiative aims to use energy performance contracting to stimulate roadlighting refurbishment Lux Reports: The EU-backed Streetlight-EPC initiative aims to stimulate use of energy performance contracting (EPC) to drive take-up of energy-efficient streelighting refurbishment. The project hopes to get 36 EPC projects up and running in nine regions across the EU.   Most European regions have not yet seen a significant take-up of EPC, which can be a good funding mechanism in streetlighting refurbishment, where there are high energy costs and huge potential for savings. Apart from legal barriers, this can be attributed to the lack of understanding and trust in EPC and the absence of experienced energy service companies (ESCOs) and organisations facilitating the EPC market. In Europe, streetlighting consumes a significant amount of electricity: there are more than 56 million streetlighting luminaires in operation, with an estimated electricity consumpti...

Published on 29 Sep 2015 Philips Lighting chief Eric Rondolat has called on international business leaders to act on climate change by embracing new lighting technologies. PLUS: Internet of Things is theme of this year's LuxLive show in London. Lux Today 29 September 2015 presented by Courtney Ferguson.

EU review found no reason to delay the ban on mains voltage directional halogen lamps The European Commission has stuck with its decision to phase out mains-voltage halogen directional lamps from the European market in September 2016 following a review. The move has been described as a win for consumers and the environment by industry figures. “Earlier this year we saw an EU vote delaying the phase out of non-directional halogen lamps until 2018 and this threw into question which way the balance would swing for their mains-voltage directional cousins,” commented Fred Bass, managing director of Neonlite International, owner of Megaman. “However, common sense has ruled and these highly inefficient light sources will now be phased out within a year.” As part of the review of the lighting directive EC 1194/2012, four criteria needed to be assessed before a phase-out could be confirmed. Issues of affordability were under scrutiny, as well performance, equivalence to existing...