According to Toshiba , it has completed the first stage of renewing external lighting at the Louvre, and it will continute to install the warm glow of new LED lighting in the Pyramid, the three pyramidions and the Colbert pavilion of the Louvre on December 6.
The Louvre museum recognized the value of replacing the old, high energy xenon lighting with LEDs, and selected Toshiba as its partner in this endeavor. Toshiba has delivered and installed its latest LED products and fittings. Working in close collaboration, Toshiba and the Louvre have designed the lighting to bring out the intrinsic beauty of the museum. Fittings include high beam-lamps to illuminate the Pyramid and the palace walls.
In addition, the remaining facades of the Napoleon Court will be completed in April 2012, and the courtyard will follow in 2013. Toshiba will provide a total of 3,200 LED light fittings to replace 4,500 xenon lighting fittings, and they will cut annual power consumption for the exterior lighting by 73%, from 392,000 to 105,000 watts.
Toshiba recognizes LEDs as the lighting of the future and is taking its new lighting system business to the global level. The company has ceased production of general incandescent bulbs in March 2010. It aims to secure sales of 350 billion yen in FY2015.