Lighting

ACCRA, GHANA, May 9, 2008—The World Bank Group has selected 16 companies and organizations as winners of the Development Marketplace competition for their innovative products or services tailored to Sub-Saharan Africa’s off-grid lighting market.

LED lighting at home in Accra, Ghana: Photo by The World Bank, International Finance Corporation and Lighting Africa

The winners will receive up to $200,000 to implement projects that offer affordable, clean, and safe off-grid lighting and that improve access to lighting for people living without electricity across the region.    » read more »

May 9, 2008 -- ESCANABA – A pilot project between the Michigan Department of Management and Budget (DMB) and one of Michigan’s “green” technology companies will help the state “flip the switch for energy savings."

At a press conference at the Escanaba State Office Building today, DMB Director Lisa Webb Sharpe announced the partnership with ilumisys, a Michigan-based company that focuses on next-generation and solid-state lighting technologies.

Over a four-year period, ilumisys will replace 200 four-foot long fluorescent tubes in the Escanaba facility with three successive generations of LED lamps. The first generation was installed last week. Each generation is expected to be more energy efficient.    » read more »

Funding to total $27.8 million with industry contribution

February 12, 2008 -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that DOE will provide up to $20.6 million for a total of 13 projects aimed at advancing solid-state lighting (SSL) research and product development. Combined with industry cost share, investment in these projects will total $28 million. SSL lighting is an advanced technology that creates light with considerably less heat than incandescent and fluorescent lamps, allowing for increased energy efficiency.    » read more »

January 15, 2008 -- WASHINGTON, DC - Americans are more than making good on their pledges to help fight climate change by replacing their lights with Energy Star qualified CFLs (compact fluorescent lights). EPA estimates that Energy Star CFL sales for 2007 were nearly double those in 2006, accounting for approximately 20 percent of the light bulb market in the U.S.    » read more »

October 23, 2007 -- New York City, N.Y. – The 20-day national Energy Star Change a Light Bus Tour concluded today with nearly 1 million Americans across the country pledging to change more than 2.6 million lights to help fight climate change. This represents a potential savings of nearly $70 million in energy costs and prevention of 1 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson ended the 10-city tour at Manhattan's Union Square.    » read more »

11 October 2007 -- In the poorest parts of the world, especially in rural villages and outlying city slums, people are confined to their homes by darkness at night. The only light they have usually comes from a smoky fire or an air-polluting kerosene lantern. But an entrepreneur from Houston, Texas is trying to change that by distributing flashlights powered by energy from the sun in developing nations.    » read more »

New Programs to Help “EmPOWER Maryland”

ANNAPOLIS, MD (August 9, 2007) – The Maryland Energy Administration (MEA) today announced four new energy efficiency programs to save Maryland residents both energy and money. The programs will focus on increasing the energy efficiency of Maryland homes and saving energy through the use of compact fluorescent lights.    » read more »

June 28, 2007 -- BERKELEY, CA — A bio-friendly nano-sized light source capable of emitting coherent light across the visible spectrum, has been invented by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California at Berkeley. Among the many potential applications of this nano-sized light source, once the technology is refined, are single cell endoscopy and other forms of subwavelength bio-imaging, integrated circuitry for nanophotonic technology, and new advanced methods of cyber cryptography.    » read more »

Biden Amendment Will Expand Delaware Energy Saving Light Bulb Program to Nation

June 14, 2007 -- Washington, DC — U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) introduced an amendment today, modeled after his Flip to Save bill, to the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007 (‘the Energy Bill’) to increase the use of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), which are longer-lasting and more energy-efficient than regular incandescent bulbs. Sen.    » read more »

6/5/2007 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- With an energy efficiency commitment, Air Force officials pursue leading-edge technologies for energy efficient lighting as part of its energy strategy for the 21st century.

The Air Force spends about $1 billion annually for the 77 trillion British thermal units of energy required to run more than 700 million square feet of facilities at 166 sites worldwide, with 20 percent of the cost for lighting.    » read more »

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 1, 2007 — An Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed technology collecting sunlight connected to special indoor light fixtures has earned an Excellence in Technology Transfer Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.

The award was presented recently to representatives of the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the consortium's annual convention in Arlington, Texas.    » read more »