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Growing Bigger Chickens With LED Lighting Research done by an Arkansas based LED lighting company shows that poultry farmers who switch lighting in there poultry houses to LED, will not only see lower energy bills, but larger birds as well. Next Gen Illumination, Inc., a Fayetteville, AR LED manufacturer conducted the test by fitting two poultry houses with there NGI AgLED lights and two other houses on the same farm with either CFL, cold cathode, or incandescent bulbs. Each house was... Read Full Story

CSA Group, a not-for-profit membership association testing products to North America, Europe and Asia standards is expanding its LED light testing laboratory in Alpharetta, GA. The company has moved from it’s 8,000-square-foot testing facility, to a state-of-the-art 30,000-square-foot testing laboratory. The expansion will help CSA keep up with growing demand caused by government standards for energy-efficient lighting being enacted this year. The new standards phased out 100 watt light bulbs... Read Full Story

Algae Farm is a Woodlands, TX based company developing the processes and systems used for the indoor cultivation of high yield algae. The algae will be used for the production of oil, residual biomass and algal biomass used in nutritional supplements, cosmetics and renewable energy. Algae are traditionally grown in shallow outdoor ponds using sunlight and fresh or salt water. These open ponds have large surface areas allowing sunlight to easily reach the algae in the shallow water. Open... Read Full Story

High Tech Lights LLC of Honolulu, Hawaii is moving it’s manufacturing factory from mainland China to Las Vegas. The factory will manufacture indoor and outdoor LED lights, spotlights, streetlights and replacement fluorescent tubes. The 10,000-sq.-ft. facility will employ 150 workers with and average salary of $20 an hour. The new factory is expected to generate $1.6 million in new taxes for Nevada over the next 10 years and pump $198.1 million into it’s economy. High Tech Lights is teaming... Read Full Story

The city of Champaign, IL is looking at LED streetlights as a way to reduce it’s energy bills and greenhouse gas emissions.Champaign owns and leases 4,770 streetlights with a yearly cost for electricity of around $400,000. In 2010, the streetlights accounted for 51% of the cities total electric bill. If the city were to replace all of the sodium-vapor streetlights now in use with LED streetlights, it would slash it’s cost to keep the cities streets lit by two-thirds. Champaign is evaluating... Read Full Story

When Maple Leaf Life , the news blog for Seattle’s Maple Leaf Neighborhood, asked local residents to give there first hand opinion about new LED streetlights being installed throughout the neighborhood, they got it! At the present time, there have been 20 comments left about the new LED’s. While there are a few minor complaints, the overall reaction to the LED streetlights is positive. Here is a brief recap of the comments left showing what residents like and dislike about Seattle’s new LED... Read Full Story

A Tucson, AZ based furniture retailer is expecting to save $268,000 a year in energy and maintenance costs by switching to LED lighting. Sam Levitz furniture is replacing 5,000, 90 watt halogen spotlights with 12-watt LED lights in four of its furniture showrooms. The switch to the long lasting and energy efficient LED’s will save the furniture chain $3.1 million over the expected 12 year lifespan of the lights. The new LED lighting in the Sam Levits showrooms will not only save the... Read Full Story

The goal of any lighting source is to produce light with a color rendering index, or CRI, that closely matches that of the sun. Light sources with a high CRI produce light that reproduces colors more faithfully, allowing objects to look more natural. Intematix Corporation, of Fremont, CA, announced that it has developed a remote phosphor blend for use with blue LED lights that produces a CRI of 98. This breakthrough will allow lighting manufacturers to develop LED lighting products that will... Read Full Story

In a follow up to a story we published in August of 2010, ( Iowa City Saving $60,000 A Year With LED’s ) Iowa City, Iowa is now estimating that over the next ten years, the city will save half a million dollars in energy costs. Iowa City switched lighting in 5 city owned parking garages to LED lighting last year. Since then, energy costs at the parking garages has dropped to half of what it was before. The decrease in electricity use was so dramatic, the local energy company, MidAmerican... Read Full Story

In a follow up to a story we published in August of 2010, ( Iowa City Saving $60,000 A Year With LED’s ) Iowa City, Iowa is now estimating that over the next ten years, the city will save half a million dollars in energy costs. Iowa City switched lighting in 5 city owned parking garages to LED lighting last year. Since then, energy costs at the parking garages has dropped to half of what it was before. The decrease in electricity use was so dramatic, the local energy company, MidAmerican... Read Full Story