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News Release

August 5, 2010

NanoMarkets New Report Sees $6.0 Billion OLED Lighting Markets by 2015

Glen Allen, Virginia: NanoMarkets has just published its latest forecasts of worldwide OLED lighting markets.  According to NanoMarkets, OLED lighting will generate $6.0 billion in revenues by 2015 driven by the need for cost efficient lighting in a number of different applications, including general illumination, architectural lighting, backlighting, vehicular lighting and signage.    The report titled, “OLED Lighting, An Eight-Year Market Forecast (2010),” is part of the firm’s “OLED Lighting Market Planning and Advisory Service” that was recently launched and leverages years of painstaking analysis and forecasting of the OLED lighting market on the part of NanoMarkets.

Further details about this and other OLED lighting related reports can be found on the firm’s website at www.nanomarkets.net.

Findings:

At present, most of the firms offering or planning to supply OLED lighting are focusing on the general illumination and/or the architectural lighting sectors, which together, NanoMarkets believes, will account for just over $4.0 billion by 2015.   The report discusses the types of OLED lighting products that will be needed as effective substitutes for today’s incandescent and fluorescent bulbs and tubes and the price points that these new OLED lighting products will fetch.

However, there are also other applications for OLED lighting with considerable potential.  For example, vehicular lighting is expected to bring in over $750 million in revenues in 2015.  NanoMarkets’ forecasts in this report also include two different scenarios for OLED backlighting; one in which OLED prove themselves to be an effective substitute to today’s electroluminescent lighting and one in which OLED technology reaches a level of development where it can provide an effective backlighting technology for LCD displays.  Under this second scenario, NanoMarkets believes that OLED backlighting could generate revenues as high as $1.4 billion.

About the Report:

This report analyzes and quantifies the opportunities for the emerging OLED lighting space.   It discusses what economic and technical challenges will need to be overcome in order to reach acceptable revenue levels as well as examines the alternative scenarios and the impact of panel size, efficiency, luminance and lifetimes.  In addition, to providing detailed forecasts, this new report considers the impact of performance improvements, funding and the establishment of the first OLED lighting manufacturing plants on the growth of OLED lighting revenues.

This report is part of NanoMarkets’ “OLED Lighting Market Planning and Advisory Service” that provides a comprehensive package of market reports, research notes and research inquiry hours.  The service provides market forecasts, a detailed analysis of the business case pushing OLED lighting forward, suppliers leading and influencing the market and the materials and manufacturing developments behind this growth.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has published numerous reports related to electronics and display materials.  Visit http://www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets’ reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

July 9, 2010…Bringing together property/facility decision makers, designers, luminaire manufacturers and enabling technology providers, the 2010-2011 SSL Summit series, hosted by Solid State Lighting Design, has taken a strong stance in its approach to help boost a “quality only” message inside the LED lighting industry. The East coast edition is slated for September 14-15 in New York City, with the West coast follow-on happening January 19-20, 2011 in the Los Angeles area. For 2010-2011, the SSL Summit is sticking firm to a commitment to require participating companies that would receive product-level visibility, to meet some basic quality vetting criteria. According to conference co-chair, Chris Brown, CEO of the national lighting solutions provider Wiedenbach Brown, “Whether a company is considering involvement as a speaker, sponsor or Summit showcase participant, we’re looking for them to meet some very basic criteria for their participation. While the Summit is not requiring the highest efficacy or perfect product, it’s clear that the players are substantially narrowed when you put basic hurdles in place, such as being able to show that independent LM-79 test data matches what they put out on their data sheet, that they are appropriately representing certifications, and that they bring a decent reputation with them.“

The SSL Summit puts forward a solid agenda designed to engage to the participants in the key issues and successful approaches visible in the LED lighting industry today. Avraham Mor, IALD, LEED AP, MIES and Partner with Lightswitch Architectural added, “Beyond the strong networking I’ve seen from my previous SSL Summit experience, one of the reasons I was willing to participate as a co-chair for this year’s Summit is the ‘quality required’ message that it carries. When considering what LED lighting has to offer, lighting decision makers quickly run head-on into a bewildering array of offerings. The Summit doesn’t claim that a participating company’s product is perfect, but it does stand behind the vetting to assure that engaging with that manufacturer to understand their offering is worth the decision maker’s time.” The Summit is receiving industry backing from a host of recognized companies, with the list so far including diamond sponsors Lithonia Lighting and LEDnovation. Platinum sponsors include GrafTech, Toshiba, Greenlight Initiative and Wiedenbach Brown, and are joined by CRS Electronics and NYECC at supporting levels. Highlighted speakers for New York include Margaret Newman, Chief of Staff of the NY City Department of Transportation, and David Bomke, Executive Director of the NY Energy Consumers Council. Visit www.SSLsummit.com from series information, or here to see the current New York SSL Summit line-up.

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June 25, 2010…The U.S. Department of Energy has issued results of its GATEWAY demonstration of LED-based Parking Lot Lighting at T.J. Maxx in Manchester, New Hampshire The project involved replacing a total of 28 [22- 400W (nominal) high-pressure sodium and 6- 400W metal halide] luminaires manufactured by Spaulding with 25 LED luminaires manufactured by BetaLED. The T.J. Maxx is the main tenant in the parking lot of the demonstration. In the GATEWAY demonstration each LED luminaire had an array of 120 LEDs. The luminaire was controlled by an integral occupancy sensor that connects to a driver varies its operation between “high” and “low” light output settings.

According to the study conducted by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the BetaLED product achieved an estimated payback in this installation of about 3 years because of high electricity ($0.14/kWh) and maintenance costs incurred by the conventional products at this location. Using the lower national average electric rate of $0.104/kWh and more typical maintenance rates results in a payback slightly more than 5 years. The report says that much of the 58 percent energy savings supporting these payback calculations is attributable to the 47% reduction in average light levels for the “high” output setting

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SSLDesign News Staff

June 22, 2010…The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in mid-2011 consumers shopping for light bulbs will notice new labeling on packaging. The new labeling will be designed to help customers choose among the different types of bulbs on the market including: traditional incandescent bulbs, and newer high-efficiency compact fluorescent (CFL), and light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs.

The FTC says that the new front-of-package labels will emphasize lumens to be the measure of brightness, not watts. This will obviously be new to some consumers. To help consumers understand the savings potential an estimated cost of electricity per year of use will also be included in the label. A diagram with number line with the color temperature is designed to help consumers comprehend correlated color temperature. The higher the color temperature in degrees Kelvin, the cooler the light appearance. The label will also include the life expectancy in years of life based on three hours of use per night.

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SSLDesign News Staff

The 25th Image Sensing Show will be held Yokohama, Japan from June 9 - 11, 2010.  The show focuses on image processing products and technologies widely used at production sites such as appearance inspection and measurement, as well as a variety of image processing products used in the fields associated with our daily lives such as: automobiles, ITS (Intelligent Transport System), security, education, entertainment, service, medicine, and the research and development fields.  Our representatives in Japan, KLV, will be demonstrating our HSi-300 Hyperspectral Imaging System.  The HSi-300 features an AOTF-based spectral filter system, instrument driver control and control module, and a powerful, intuitive image capture and hyperspectral analysis software suite.  It now features µ-Manager plug-ins, a free and open source application software platform for imaging and control of automated microscopes on multiple operating systems (Windows, Mac, and Linux).  The HSi-300 is integrated with DVC cameras and the Andor Ixon EMCCD family of scientific cameras, and soon will be integrated with Hamamatsu and Photometrics.

April 23, 2010…The United State Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that Seattle City Light has been selected to lead a national effort to guide municipalities in evaluating LED street lights. Edward Smalley of Seattle City Light will lead the Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium, which will collect, analyze, and share information and lessons learned related to LED street lighting demonstrations. (Ref: Coverage). Many municipalities hope to take advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act/Block Grant funding to replace existing street lighting with energy-efficient LEDs.

The DOE says that starting today, cities and power providers and others who invest in street and area lighting are invited to join the Consortium and share their experiences through national and regional meetings, webcasts, web-based discussion forums, and other means. The DOE notes that most of the planned demonstrations are similar except for geographic location, which impacts local climate, cost of electricity, and related details.

The consortium’s goal is to build a repository of field experience and data that will accelerate the learning curve for buying and implementing high-quality and energy-efficient LED street lights. The DOE Consortium efforts are funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The DOE says that membership in the Consortium is open to municipalities, utilities, and energy efficiency organizations, with participation at various levels from other interested parties. Interested parties can sign up to be consortium members with the online consortium charter.

The first webcast is planned for May 6 and all interested parties are invited to attend. More details about the webcast will be available soon! DOE News Release,

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SSLDesign News Staff