Power management company Eaton announced that its Neo-Ray Index light-emitting diode (LED) luminaires are helping to improve the lighting performance while lowering energy usage in the Gumberg Library at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Recently completed on its first floor, this LED lighting upgrade will help the university reduce its annual energy consumption for the floor significantly.
The Shops at Grand Avenue’s parking garage in Milwaukee, Wis., got an LED lighting upgrade, replacing 986 metal halide 150W lights with VPL LED parking vaportight fixtures manufactured by Precision-Paragon (P2), consuming 51 watts each.
The LED retrofit reduced the facility’s lighting energy consumption by over 66 percent. Continue reading
Everyone knows the places well. They are the comforting light that is barely visible along the long, dark and lonely highway. Quick shop, neighborhood grocery or convenience store, whatever the name, we all know what they mean. Whether it’s candy bars, cigarettes, or a tank of gas and a good cup of joe, the good old quickie mart is there to grant your every wish—24 hours a day, 7 days a week, holidays and hurricanes too.
Canopy lights are just one area where LEDs can help convenience stores, gas stations and all-night stores save money. Some owners have seen savings as high as 70 per cent compared to non-LED lights. Payback on the investment in LEDs can be as little as a couple of years.
LED-based lighting will enable higher illuminance levels on iconic artwork in famed Rome cathedral while preserving the historically-significant work and utilizing 60% less energy.
Osram’s lighting business has announced that it will be retrofitting the lighting in the Rome, Italy Sistine Chapel, using LED-based fixtures to highlight the Michelangelo frescoes. The project, involving custom-designed fixtures optimized for beam control and with a color spectrum that will highlight the pigmentation in the frescoes, will be completed next year, although a pilot project entitled LED4Art has already proven the concept. Continue reading
Dubai Municipality, one of the main administrative departments of the Emirate of Dubai government, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Philips to convert all of the municipality’s lighting to LED. The agreement embraces all 262 of the municipality’s buildings, including city government offices, schools, public buildings such as courts and sports venues, and transportation buildings. The transformation from conventional lighting to LED is expected to save the Municipality up to 50 percent, roughly 10.5 GWh per year, on its energy consumption. It will also mean a reduction of some 6,200 tons of CO2 emissions per year.
Dubai skyline: the Dubai Municipality, a department of the Emirate’s government responsible for the city of Dubai, signed an agreement with Philips to replace all lighting in its 262 buildings with LED lights.