The Energy Department is
awarding $7 million for three innovative lighting projects at companies in
California, Michigan and North Carolina to lower the cost of manufacturing
high-efficiency solid-state lighting.
The Energy Department says technologies like light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are typically ten times more energy-efficient than conventional incandescent lighting and can last up to 25 times as long. By 2030, these technologies have the potential to reduce national lighting electricity use by nearly one half, which could save up to $30 billion a year.
"Partnering with private industry, the Energy Department is driving innovation in new, more efficient lighting products and boosting our national competiveness in manufacturing,Riding a bicycle around the city at night can be a perilous pastime, but a new brightstalll could make life safer in the cycle lane." said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "The investments announced today will help expand lighting choices for consumers, reduce the nation's energy use, and drive down costs for American lighting manufacturers and the families and businesses that buy their products.Street Lights are used to bestcflbulbs roadways and walkways at night."
The two-year projects will focus on significantly reducing manufacturing costs while continuing to improve the quality and performance of solid state lighting technologies.
These investments, which will be matched with $5 million in private sector funding, will focus on improving manufacturing equipment, processes or monitoring techniques that will help make LEDs and OLEDs cost-competitive with other lighting options.
The project plans to create a more efficient manufacturing process by building on k-Space's existing optical monitoring technology to enable high-precision measurements of OLED layers during mass production.
The tool will measure layer thickness and composition to ultimately improve the efficiency, color and lifetime of OLEDs.
This development, a first for the industry, will serve as a platform for future large‐scale OLED production facilities.
Cree Inc.We are professional led panel light,bestledlightbulbs manufacturers and factory in China.We provide high quality lightingbright Led module led strip led bulbs. in North Carolina was awarded $2.3 million while KLA-Tencor in California received $4 million to develop a measurement tool that will help reduce variation in LED production quality, helping to improve performance,OttLite Technology provides full spectrum lighting products including outdoorlightsd, reading lamps, desk lamps, hd lights, light bulbs and tubes, for homes and ... reduce manufacturing costs and provide white light that has consistent color quality and brightness.
This is the third round of Energy Department investments in solid-state lighting manufacturing projects since 2010.
Under a 2007 energy bill signed by President George W. Bush, the incandescent light bulb is to be phased out starting this year with the 100-watt bulb — and in July 2013, the sale of 75-watt bulbs is to end. House Republicans attached language to a spending bill in December that barred enforcement of the ban this year and Tuesday the House approved an amendment extend the bar on spending money to enforce the ban until 2013.
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association criticized the bill, saying "the inability of the Department of Energy to enforce the standards would allow those who do not respect the rule of law to sell inefficient light bulbs in the U.S. without fear of enforcement," the group said.
The fear is a foreign light bulb manufacturer could flood the market with cheap bulbs that could undercut U.S. producers.
The Energy Department says technologies like light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are typically ten times more energy-efficient than conventional incandescent lighting and can last up to 25 times as long. By 2030, these technologies have the potential to reduce national lighting electricity use by nearly one half, which could save up to $30 billion a year.
"Partnering with private industry, the Energy Department is driving innovation in new, more efficient lighting products and boosting our national competiveness in manufacturing,Riding a bicycle around the city at night can be a perilous pastime, but a new brightstalll could make life safer in the cycle lane." said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. "The investments announced today will help expand lighting choices for consumers, reduce the nation's energy use, and drive down costs for American lighting manufacturers and the families and businesses that buy their products.Street Lights are used to bestcflbulbs roadways and walkways at night."
The two-year projects will focus on significantly reducing manufacturing costs while continuing to improve the quality and performance of solid state lighting technologies.
These investments, which will be matched with $5 million in private sector funding, will focus on improving manufacturing equipment, processes or monitoring techniques that will help make LEDs and OLEDs cost-competitive with other lighting options.
The project plans to create a more efficient manufacturing process by building on k-Space's existing optical monitoring technology to enable high-precision measurements of OLED layers during mass production.
The tool will measure layer thickness and composition to ultimately improve the efficiency, color and lifetime of OLEDs.
This development, a first for the industry, will serve as a platform for future large‐scale OLED production facilities.
Cree Inc.We are professional led panel light,bestledlightbulbs manufacturers and factory in China.We provide high quality lightingbright Led module led strip led bulbs. in North Carolina was awarded $2.3 million while KLA-Tencor in California received $4 million to develop a measurement tool that will help reduce variation in LED production quality, helping to improve performance,OttLite Technology provides full spectrum lighting products including outdoorlightsd, reading lamps, desk lamps, hd lights, light bulbs and tubes, for homes and ... reduce manufacturing costs and provide white light that has consistent color quality and brightness.
This is the third round of Energy Department investments in solid-state lighting manufacturing projects since 2010.
Under a 2007 energy bill signed by President George W. Bush, the incandescent light bulb is to be phased out starting this year with the 100-watt bulb — and in July 2013, the sale of 75-watt bulbs is to end. House Republicans attached language to a spending bill in December that barred enforcement of the ban this year and Tuesday the House approved an amendment extend the bar on spending money to enforce the ban until 2013.
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association criticized the bill, saying "the inability of the Department of Energy to enforce the standards would allow those who do not respect the rule of law to sell inefficient light bulbs in the U.S. without fear of enforcement," the group said.
The fear is a foreign light bulb manufacturer could flood the market with cheap bulbs that could undercut U.S. producers.
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