http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/noribachi-streamlines-led-pricing/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/noribachi-streamlines-led-pricing/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:26:49 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69789 Smart energy products firm Noribachi has streamlined pricing of it LED and solar lighting, resulting in reductions of up to 31 percent across the LED product line. The company is hoping that the new prices bolster both interest and investment in LED lighting. The company says cost has “everything” to do with how quickly energy-efficient [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/noribachi-streamlines-led-pricing/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/soffe-cuts-lighting-costs-65-with-retrofit/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/soffe-cuts-lighting-costs-65-with-retrofit/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:12:27 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69750 The M.J. Soffe Company, a manufacturer of active apparel, expects to cut lighting costs by 65 percent with an energy efficiency project at its Fayetteville, N.C. headquarters. The subsidiary of Delta Apparel has engaged Piedmont Service Group to upgrade 2,500 lighting fixtures during the next four months. Piedmont will install LED lights in conference rooms [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/10/soffe-cuts-lighting-costs-65-with-retrofit/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/lighting-brief-soraa-cree-and-marvell/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/lighting-brief-soraa-cree-and-marvell/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:38:14 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69707 California-based lighting startup Soraa has launched an LED lamp that it says emits more light per LED material and can handle more electric current per area than its competitors products. The Soraa LED MR16 lamp is the first LED bulb that rivals the light performance of a 50W halogen lamp, Soraa says. Cree has introduced [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/09/lighting-brief-soraa-cree-and-marvell/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/tva-power-savings-could-come-from-energy-efficient-appliances/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/tva-power-savings-could-come-from-energy-efficient-appliances/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:25:51 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69635 The mass installation of such energy efficiency measures as compact fluorescent lighting and heating and cooling systems could effectively flatten Tennessee’s power demand for the next 18 years, according to research commissioned by utility Tennessee Valley Authority. The research by Global Energy Partners estimated the region’s achievable savings potential at 3,256 to 7,494 gigawatt-hours by [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/08/tva-power-savings-could-come-from-energy-efficient-appliances/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-carb-diesel-vehicles-china-vs-eu-ets-mexico-climate-law/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-carb-diesel-vehicles-china-vs-eu-ets-mexico-climate-law/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:50:49 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69458 California’s On-Road Heavy-Duty Diesel Vehicles (In-Use) Regulation has shifted the reporting date to March 30, 2012, for most privately and federally owned diesel fueled trucks and buses with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) greater than 14,000 pounds. The regulation requires installation of PM retrofits for heavier trucks beginning January 2012, and replacement of older [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/06/policy-enforcement-briefing-carb-diesel-vehicles-china-vs-eu-ets-mexico-climate-law/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/lighting-briefing-philips-cummings-properties-noribachi/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/lighting-briefing-philips-cummings-properties-noribachi/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:42:33 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=69353 Royal Philips Electronics saw a 70 percent increase in LED lighting sales in 2011, excluding LED chips, reports Optics.org. In the final quarter of 2011, LED-related sales were up 37 percent year-on-year despite a decrease in sales at Philips Lumileds – its LED chip manufacturing subsidiary. Philips Lumileds has launched Luxeon K, an illumination grade [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/02/02/lighting-briefing-philips-cummings-properties-noribachi/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/25/tarlton-taps-progressive-for-retrofit/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/25/tarlton-taps-progressive-for-retrofit/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:20:24 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68885 Progressive Lighting & Energy Solutions is to undertake an energy efficiency improvement project for Tarlton Properties, located in Menlo Park, Calif. The project includes the installation of building efficiency controls and a lighting retrofit at the 47-acre, 13-building business park. Progressive, in participation with Pacific Gas & Electric, secured funding through a combination of third [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/25/tarlton-taps-progressive-for-retrofit/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/netled-launches-wi-fi-led-flourescent-tube-replacement/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/netled-launches-wi-fi-led-flourescent-tube-replacement/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:53:09 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68735 NetLED has released a 40W LED light panel designed to replace a fluorescent tube and controllable by computer, smartphone or tablet device. Using the networking software, the fixtures can be remotely and individually dimmed to a 10 percent lighting level, allowing, for instance, brighter light above desks in use, dimmer light above desks near windows, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/netled-launches-wi-fi-led-flourescent-tube-replacement/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/sandia-casino-expects-75-energy-drop-with-led-lights-solar-panels/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/sandia-casino-expects-75-energy-drop-with-led-lights-solar-panels/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:00:12 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68723 Sandia Resort & Casino in Albuquerque will consume about a quarter the energy in its parking lots through switching hundreds of gas discharge lamps to Noribachi LED bulbs, the two companies have said. The resort, owned and operated by the Pueblo of Sandia, has replaced 400W and 175W metal halide bulbs with LED bulbs using [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/23/sandia-casino-expects-75-energy-drop-with-led-lights-solar-panels/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/stop-shop-nabs-4m-in-incentives-for-lighting-and-ecms/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/stop-shop-nabs-4m-in-incentives-for-lighting-and-ecms/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:35:57 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68599 Stop & Shop has cut costs and received over $4 million in utility incentives through use of efficient lighting and electronically-commutated motors (ECMs) at hundreds of stores and warehouses, the company has announced. Bluestone Energy Services installed and replaced lighting fixtures with energy-efficient LEDs. At Stop & Shop stores in North Kingstown and North Providence, [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/19/stop-shop-nabs-4m-in-incentives-for-lighting-and-ecms/feed/ 1