Ed Morrison · Learning more about LEDs

May 23rd, 2010

In the past couple of days, I’ve been poking around the LED market and finding some interesting developments. All of which makes me think that Cleveland is nuts to sign a ten year LED deal with a Chinese manufacturer that no one has heard of before.

Take, for example, the case of LED North America which is working to make LED lights last longer.

Using a lightweight carbon foam developed at Oak Ridge National Labs that reduces temperatures in LED engines by as much as ten degrees Celsius, the company is looking to double the life of LEDs. That, the company argues, could represent an “industry game changer” with an effect most immediately apparent in public LED applications in schools, streets, parking garages and office buildings.

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  1. JS Says:
    May 23rd, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    Here’s a nice tidbit from Los Angeles…

    “The City will install remote monitoring devices on each of its 140,000 new street lights, allowing the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting to collect real-time data on its system performance at the fixture level. The City will be able to centrally monitor its street light network, verifying energy savings and performance of new LED fixtures, and optimizing equipment maintenance.”
    – CCI Case Study Los Angeles

  2. Brian Cummins Says:
    May 23rd, 2010 at 10:36 pm

    Ed,

    Thanks for the link and for the postings on the LED/Sunpu Opto deal. The more I’ve learned about the technology the more I find it incredible that the deal has come this far. We’re hoping the Administration and Council leadership does not call for a vote tomorrow. If we don’t vote tomorrow it will provide more time to strip the layers (jobs and being able to get out of the contract) of these “Emperor’s New Clothes”!

    If you’ve not seen it yet from my previous post, check out the the newly formed DOE Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium:

    http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/ssl/consortium.html

    And, read about how Seattle’s City Light has dealt with wading into the LED market. Their Manager, Edward Smalley is heading up the DOE’s Street Light Consortium, I assume due to City Light’s judicious entry into the utilization of LEDs – using an open competitive process, scrutinizing products and companies and building relationships based on performance:

    http://www.ledsmagazine.com/news/7/5/6

    Regards,

    Brian Cummins
    Cleveland City Council, Ward 14
    bcummins[at]clevelandcitycouncil.org