New LED Street Lights in Osaka Japan

Metal halide street lights were recently replaced with Philips LUXEON LEDs using only 25watts of power. This resulted in an 88% energy savings for the city of Osaka.

Click here for Philips press release

Cheers!

March 5, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments

LED Street Lighting In Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI June 2008- Changing street lights to LEDs

I am fortunate to live in Ann Arbor an shinning example for other cities.  Last year the city decided to switch over 1000 street lights to LEDs.  Cutting energy use in half and extending the life of the lamp 5 times longer(about 10 years).  The new LED street lights are expected to pay for themselves in 4 years with energy savings.  Ann Arbor calls energy efficiency “good policy”.  The city also uses solar panels to heat water at the fire department, biodiesel to power its buses and is putting pressure on the local power company DTE to provide power using wind turbines.  Energy efficiency is something Ann Arbor residents can take pride in.

February 20, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

Welcome to a new landscape!

Hi my name is John Paul and you have come across my new project.  This blog is as much for me as it is for you. The goal is to keep you and myself informed of how LED lighting is changes the landscapes around us.

I am in the lighting business and over the past 5 years I been noticing a huge shift to more green lighting techniques and technologies. I believe we have started a major shift away from inefficient traditional lighting (ie. standard incandescent lamps) and even more efficient fluorescent lighting which contains mercury.  Taking the place will be a new frontier of LED technologies. As with all technology LEDs will continue to experience compounding advances in efficiency every year compared to last. Right now many LEDs use 1/4 the energy and last 10 times longer than a standard incandescent producing the same lumen output. Within a short amount of time these numbers will become more impressive.  Recently pressures to reduce our dependency on foreign oil along with  the urgent need to slow global warming by cutting carbon emissions have become stronger.  More money will be flowing to research new LED technology but more importantly money will be spent actually implementing the LED fixtures into the landscapes around us.

Thanks for visiting,  Feel free to leave your comments or thoughts. 

-jp

February 19, 2009   Posted in: Uncategorized  No Comments