It’s the year of the diode

The industry is ready for the year of the diode, writes Doug Bailey, v-p marketing at Power Integrations The emergence of solid state lighting has been discussed in the technical media, at trade shows and in labs for almost a decade. Many of the initial... Read more

Energy Efficient Lighting for Commercial Markets

Global Outlook for LED Solid State and Other High-Efficiency Lighting Technologies in Commercial Buildings: Market Analysis and Forecasts For more than 130 years, the world has relied on variations of incandescent and gas-discharge lamps to illuminate... Read more

Taiwan invests in LED street lighting, government urged to do more

Taiwan has begun a three-year project to replace 53,000 street lights with LEDs, while a report from a strategy meeting urges greater investment to help Taiwan’s LED manufacturers. According to an article published in Taiwan Today, Shih Yen-shiang... Read more

Research eyes energy-saving fluoros

The global trend towards using fluorescent globes instead of incandescent ones as a strategy to beat climate change could be increasing eye disease, according to new research by scientists at The Australian National University. Published today in the... Read more

Lighting the future with Lighting Council of Australia

LED Light Works is now a proud member of the Lighting Council of Australia (LCA) with our membership becoming active this past July. Membership to the LCA represents an important strategic alliance for LED Light Works as they are the peak body in the... Read more

TED Talk: Wireless data from every light bulb: Harald Haas on TED.com

What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick to for the human eye to detect,... Read more

New lighting market report release by McKinsey

Based on a worldwide survey of lighting professionals and consumers, as well as other input factors, McKinsey has developed a lighting market model that estimates the size of the global lighting market through to 2020, differentiated by application, geography,... Read more

LEDs may have reached “tipping point” with electrical contractors

A survey of 700 readers of Electrical Contractor magazine showed a majority of contractors believe LEDs are either now ready to replace incandescent and fluorescent lamps or will be ready by the Fall of 2012. Electrical contractors may be reaching... Read more

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