Apr
29
2010
The East Orlando Chamber of Commerce will be holding their Annual Visioning Luncheon on Wednesday, May 19th to showcase the area’s most innovative and forward-thinking economic sectors. Despite the current economic downturn, the fields spotlighted take innovative approaches to addressing industry trends, while still managing to finding innovative solutions to economic challenges and having an economic impact on our area. Representatives will be on hand from fields such as Bio-Tech and Life Science, Aviation and Aerospace, and Digital Media. Alex Fong, Sr. Vice President of the Life Sciences & Instrumentation division will be the featured speaker for the Optics and Photonics industry and will discuss the nature of the industry in Orlando and how it impacts the area. The event will be at the Renaissance hotel near the Orlando International Airport from 11:30am to 1:15pm. Tickets are $45 for CoC members and $55 for non-members.
Apr
27
2010
April 26, 2010…California, a U.S. state which is often at the forefront of establishing environmental and conservation laws and regulations, is home to a Representative Michael Honda of the state legislature. Michael Honda, a State House Representative of California District 15 introduced a bill to make consumer electronics smarter in terms of energy consumption and conservation. The bill called, the “Smart Electronics Act” H.R. 5070. which was introduced last week, hopes to add energy consumption management methods and technologies to individual consumer electronic devices.
Marvell Semiconductors supports the bill. Sehat Sutardja, Chairman, president and CEO of Marvell Semiconductors, Inc. stated, “Every year, people around the world consume energy from billions of new electronic products—from smartphones, to tablet computers to televisions. All our efforts to make energy consumption more efficient through ’smart grids’ and ’smart meters’ are wasted if we still have dumb products. The Smart Electronics Act is landmark legislation that will ensure that those new products are more energy efficient and earth-friendly, reducing our resource demands and carbon footprint for generations to come.”
From lights that stay on when no one is around, to DSL and WiFi routers that are always on, to to clock’s, stereos, microwaves, and other consumer electronics, all these devices can put a invisible drain on electric power consumption. Many of them do so even when in the “Off” state. Many devices are obviously “dumb” electricity hogs, or at least “dumb” electricity sippers
Apr
23
2010
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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Apr
07
2010
| DOE publishes updated R&D plan for solid-state lighting |
| 05 Apr 2010 |
| The updated R&D plan for LEDs and OLEDs indicates that warm and cool LED package efficacies are expected to approach 200 lm/W. |
| The US Department of Energy has published the March 2010 edition of the Solid-State Lighting (SSL) R&D Multi-Year Program Plan (MYPP).
The MYPP provides a description of the activities the Department plans to undertake over the next several years to implement its SSL mission.The document reviews SSL technology status and trends for both LEDs and OLEDs, and offers an overview of the current DOE SSL R&D project portfolio.
The DOE’s Jim Brodrick, who runs the SSL program, says that the plan serves a number of key functions; “Not only as the main strategy document for our SSL R&D program and a tool that guides our funding awards, but also as our implementation plan.”
The updating process is highly collaborative and depends on the input of dozens of real-world experts, who span a wide spectrum – from academics and researchers to device and luminaire manufacturersOne significant update to the Technology Research and Development Plan is updated milestones to align DOE targets with progress made to date.
Also, special attention has been paid to definitions, to align the MYPP terminology with the recently published IES Recommended Practice RP-16, Addendum a. Brodrick says that, far from being “an exercise in nitpicking and hair-splitting, this was a much-needed effort” to put the entire industry on the same page with regard to terminology, based on current standards and those in development.
In attempting to identify areas requiring funding focus in the short term, the Plan clarifies the scope and description of various tasks that will move these efforts along.One interesting finding, says Brodrick, is that, although the efficacies of warm-white LEDs are presently well below those of cool-white products, there are ways to close that gap. Some of these are already being employed in products that have appeared on the market. Ultimately, both warm and cool LED package efficacies are expected to approach 200 lm/W.
The DOE will continue to update the Plan on an annual basis to incorporate new analysis, progress, and new research priorities as science evolves.
Courtesy LEDs Magazine |
