Monthly Archives: April 2009

Enlarge image The rapid growth of solid-state lighting products has resulted in an increasing number of products on the market for various lighting applications, most of which reliably showcase energy savings. However, quite a number of underperforming products are also … Continue reading →

Street lights can consume up to 40 percent of a city’s energy budget. The EECBG program is ideal for upgrading or retrofitting existing metal halide streetlights with new energy efficient LED street lights such as LED*Waves’ Knossos LED Street Light. … Continue reading →

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced on March 26 that it plans to invest $3.2 billion for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program as part of the Obama administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 … Continue reading →

Coating an LED with a carefully tuned nanocrystals helps make LED lights warmer and less clinical, a new study from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey shows. The researchers argue that this development is necessary to pave the way for energy-efficient … Continue reading →