Asheville Boasts First Large-Scale LED Street Light Deployment in North Carolina
Taking steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce its overall carbon footprint, the City of Asheville has initiated North Carolina’s first large-scale deployment of LED street lights. There are 3,643 LEDway® street lights from Durham-based manufacturer Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) being installed, with projected savings of $260,000 annually. Read more »
Spark Solar&Wind Hybrid LED Street Light Project in Guiyang City, China
At the Garden Street, nanming district, Guiyang city, All the Solar&Wind hybrid LED Street lights from SPARK will lightened in the evenings, which break the darkness of the night. They not only make the city’s night more beautiful, but also provide the reliable and green lighting source for the residents.
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Philips Lights up Zürich’s Hardbrücke, Switzerland’s Largest LED Project
Royal Philips Electronics’ (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) LED lighting solutions have completely transformed Zürich’s Hardbrücke, adding life to the neighborhood while reducing energy costs.
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Arraiolos, Portugal: 50% of Energy Savings Thanks to LED Technology by Osram OS
As of late, the streets in the historic centre of Arraiolos in Portugal have been lit up entirely by energy-efficient lighting diode technology (LED), used in combination with an intelligent lighting management system. This project, the first of its kind in the entire country, was realised by Schréder, a manufacturing company for street lighting, in cooperation with OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. In future, the new street lighting shall ensure energy savings of approximately 50 percent.
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GE Lighting Helps School Campus Reduce Energy Costs by More Than $200,000 Annually
Cuyahoga Valley Career Center (CVCC) recently called on GE Lighting, in conjunction with CCG Energy Solutions, to create a lighting equation that would result in better quality light and lower energy and life-cycle maintenance costs. Part of a $2.6 million comprehensive energy project, the school’s campus underwent a lighting upgrade that included state-of-the-art outdoor GE Evolve™ LED Area Lights, rooftop daylighting panels with automatic dimming, and new high-efficiency fluorescent fixtures ...
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Switching Over While Getting Equipped for the Future
Starting recently, the new-build Rohrdorf area of the Pielenhofen community near Regensburg is shining in a modern light: the plan is for nine street lights with LED technology from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors to shed their light on the future development. And that’s only the beginning – in stages, Pielenhofen will switch over its street lighting to LED across the community’s whole area. It is a measure that not only pays off for large cities: small communities can also achieve huge savings as a ...
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First Highway Service Area with LED Lighting in Germany
Since some weeks travelers on highway A24 between Berlin and Hamburg, Germany will be enlightened about one hour north of Berlin. The service area on one side of the highway is shining brilliantly whereas the one on the opposite side is showing the muddy and shadowy light drivers are used to since many years. Here a pilot project is demonstrating the highly visible difference between today and tomorrow.
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Portuguese Cities Expand Installation of Luxeon LED based Street Lights
The implementation of efficient, attractive LED street lighting in Portugal has gathered pace over the summer as EnergiaViva has completed installations of the new UrbanLED street light in ten towns and cities. Installation work in a further 20 Portuguese municipalities is expected to have been completed this fall.
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First LED Models Installed in Berlin, Replicating Golden Glow of Gas Originals
Historic gas street lamps in cities like Berlin, Prague and Warsaw can now be upgraded to energy-saving LED technology, thanks to a solid-state retrofit designed by Berlin-based Braun Schaltgeräte & Service with assistance from LED solutions provider Future Lighting Solutions.
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First Test installation for LED-Streetlighting from LEDworx in Vienna
The actual assets of Streetlights in Austria originate from the Sixties and Seventies of the last century. The spirit of innovation and the commitment to energy efficiency and LED-Technology of all parties concerned enabled a first test installation.
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