Title: Digital Lumens: LEDs Winning the Lighting War - Greentech Media

Industry sector: Energy efficiency

Digital Lumens: LEDs Winning the Lighting War

LEDs on the cusp of transforming the lighting industry, replacing the incandescent light bulb.

Greentech Media
Eric Wesoff: August 25, 2010

We're in the midst of the great lighting transformation, with solid-state LEDs on the cusp of transforming the lighting industry. The Edison bulb will soon be a relic and CFLs an interim step.

The industrial lighting industry is worth $5 billion in the U.S. alone and Digital Lumens, a light-emitting diode (LED) lighting and control startup just announced a big design-win in what is one of the opening salvos of the industrial LED lighting revolution.

Digital Lumens' customer, Maines Paper & Food Service, deployed the company’s Intelligent Lighting System in their 9-football-field-sized, 460,000-square-foot headquarters in Conklin, New York. Here are the expected results:

* Lighting-related energy use reduced by 87 percent.
* Saving 1,726,108 kWh per year (enough electricity to power 200 homes for a year).
* A reduction of 1,240 metric tons of CO2 per year.
* Improved light levels and safety facility-wide.

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