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| EPA releases final draft of Energy Star Luminaires specification 20 Dec |
| The Luminaires specification now has an effective date of October 1, 2011. |
| Outdoor Lighting: Corunna deploys LED retrofits, Osram announces retrofit kit 20 Dec |
| Corunna, Michigan has retrofitted metal halide street lights with SSL while Osram Sylvania has launched new 35 and 55W LED area-light retrofit kits. |
| Philips Lumileds mass-producing LEDs on 150-mm wafers 20 Dec |
| Lumileds says that it is now producing millions of GaN-based LEDs weekly on 150-mm-diameter wafers, allowing the company to increase its production capacity for power LEDs. |
| LG Innotek and Zumtobel Group sign LED cooperation agreement 15 Dec |
| Zumtobel and LG will work together to transfer expertise from the LCD backlighting market into the general lighting field. |
| Outdoor Lighting: Mexico street lights, Roswell car park 14 Dec |
| A Mexican town plans to install 25,507 GE LED street lights while a Lexus auto dealer in Roswell, GA used SSL to achieve an 86.6% reduction in the energy required to light its parking lot. |
| Hotel SSL retrofit delivers 1.1-year payback 14 Dec |
| A DOE Gateway demonstration project in a San Francisco hotel shows LED retrofit lamps deliver 70% energy savings and a quick 1.1-year payback period on the investment. |
| LED Industry News: Seren, Phoseon, Fernplas 14 Dec |
| Seren Photonics has completed its first funding round, Phoseon Technology is expanding its headquarters in Hillsboro, Oregon, and Fernplas has invested in injection-molding capabilities. |
| SAP installs LED lighting system from Redwood at Palo Alto campus 14 Dec |
| An LED-based lighting system will reduce energy usage and operational costs for software company SAP, but it was not the most effective green technology that the company installed. |
| Cree opens LED chip manufacturing facility in Huizhou 13 Dec |
| Cree Huizhou Solid State Lighting Co., Ltd., the company’s first LED chip manufacturing base in China, has opened just over a year after the project was announced. |
| SemiLEDs shares commence trading on NASDAQ after IPO 10 Dec |
| SemiLEDs will invest funds generated from its IPO to expand its production capacity in Taiwan and to carry out R&D related to LED chip production on 6-inch wafers. |
| Outdoor Lighting: Niagara Falls plans to test LED street light energy use 07 Dec |
| Niagara Falls plans to begin an LED evaluation project in early 2011 while SSL projects in Palo Alto and Cleveland face roadblocks. |
| Rubicon grows profits as sapphire-wafer prices rise 07 Dec |
| With an imbalance of supply and demand for sapphire wafers in the LED market, Rubicon Technology has benefited from substantial price increases and has also significantly enhanced its production capacity. |
| Osram completes LM-80 tests on two LED models 02 Dec |
| Oslon SSL and Golden Dragon Plus LEDs from Osram have passed the rigorous 6,000-hour LM-80 test that is key to various luminaire certification standards and purchasing guidelines. |
| Instrument Systems announces strong year-end results 02 Dec |
| LED test and measurement company Instrument Systems has announced a 47% increase in revenue for its latest business year, and has also delivered its 1000th CAS 140CT series Array Spectrometer. |
| LED-based MR16 from CRS Electronics approved by utility rebate programs 02 Dec |
| Two major US utilities have approved an LED-based MR16 lamp from CRS for inclusion in their rebate program. |
