India’s second largest online retailer Snapdeal has formed a partnership with the country’s state-owned Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) to sell LED bulbs nationwide for INR 99 (US $1.46), according to an Economic Times report.

Two weeks ahead of Valentines, GE published a heartbreaking online letter ending its long term relationship with CFL, while announcing its new passion for LEDs.The creatively written marketing stunt was highlighting an important announcement that GE will discontinue the manufacturing of CFL bulbs in the U.S. market, and shift its focus in the consumer lighting towards LED bulbs by the end of 2016.

Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced components, introduced inFlux, a new lineup of high-flux (extremely bright), linear LED modules optimized for industrial lighting applications such as plants, parking lots and warehouses. The LED modules serve as a replacement for conventional T8 and T5HO (high output) tubes and are suitable for high-flux LED luminaires covering up to 40,000lm (luminous flux*).

Vishay Intertechnology introduced a new metal-core-based cool white LED power module featuring 12 high-brightness LEDs with high luminous flux of 4000 lm each at 1 A. To simplify designs and manufacturing processes, the Vishay Semiconductors VLSL12A03-3Q3T-50A can be combined with off-the-shelf LEDiL quadruple lenses, while its integrated small thermal sensor (NTCS0603E347JHT) and fourfold plug-in connector (87438-0443) eliminate the need for additional soldering.

The II-VI Laser Enterprise Division of II-VI Incorporated, a leading provider of high-power semiconductor laser components, today unveiled a new generation of high power 1060 nm single-mode laser diode seed module.

  Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal in the world, and the best way to guard against these pesky and dangerous insects is to take preventative measures. ZappLight, a dual functioning light bulb and mosquito trap, turns every room in a home into a mosquito's temple of doom. “This bulb will help stop the spread of mosquito-spread viruses,” said founder Paul Van Kleef.

With global crude oil prices crashing, the Middle East energy subsidies have also been swept away, reported The National Business.

Several Canadian municipalities are planning to invest CA $13 million (US $9.29 million) to replace 42,000 streetlights this year, reportedMetroland News.

Metro Detroit freeways to be upgraded with approximately 15,000 LED streetlights. Several major interstates freeways will be converted to LED lighting as early as April 2016 with a US $123 million public-private partnership.

In this Natural Resource Defense Council blog entry, Allison Clements, Senior Attorney, Project for Sustainable Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Energy Policy, New York sheds insights on how the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling that gives FERC has both the authority and the duty to regulate demand response will have on green energy developments.

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh in India plans to replace traditional streetlights comprising of sodium, fluorescent and CFLs with LEDs, reported Dhaka Tribune.

Whether in ice hockey or in automotive lighting – quality, performance and passion always help to achieve the desired goal. That is also why OSRAM is the official lighting partner of the EHC RedBull Munich ice hockey club. With the support of our partners at Subaru, the club tested the blue-white light of OSRAM COOL BLUE INTENSE in a quite different arena:

Nite Ize®, an innovator of visibility and safety products since 1989, introduces a new and improved Nite Dawg® LED Dog Collar. This high-quality nylon collar incorporates a bright red LED that illuminates 360 degrees as well as passive reflectivity striping for added visibility. These safety features ultimately allow pets to play more and their owners to worry less when the sun goes down.

Continually Shrinking Production Value、Growing Chinese Market、Three-in-one Sensor becomes the Standard Requirement

LEDinside research report indicates the industrial lighting sector has become more important in the lighting industry. Moreover, Europe currently still has the largest market share followed by China and U.S. Under the promotion of oil-related industries, European explosion-proof lighting market has grown slightly faster than the U.S. Affected by the strong demand for LED replacement lamp in recent years around the world and the government's subsidies, LED industrial lighting grows rapidly, its global market scale in 2016 will reach USD 2.932 billion, with growth of more than 15% in the next few years, and its market scale will reach USD 5.204 billion in 2020.

Established in 1976, SHANNG-HAO ENTERPRISE Co., Ltd. has been engaged in the sale of electrical instrumentation and explosion-proof equipment, and related importing and exporting business. With the business concept of “ Integrity, Service, Diversification”, it has been constantly serving and satisfying more customers on trading not only in Taiwan but also in other Asian countries.

In collaboration with the Coreplast Laitila company, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has created a reflector that can be wirelessly controlled via a mobile phone application. This involves equipping a traditional reflector with sensors, LED lights, and wireless charging and communication.

Videssence lights the new, spacious main Gateway Center news set that recently debuted at KDKA-TV with new LED lighting fixtures. For over two and a half decades these two have partnered to utilize Videssence’s lighting products to ensure a superior broadcast image of KDKA’s exceptional sets and lively anchors and guests. Videssence provided LED Fresnel and Soft Lights in addition DMX control/power strips for the current studio.

Jarman Square, previously known as Leisure World, is a new leisure park in Hemel Hempstead. With the re vitalized complex welcoming a host of popular new restaurants and leisure facilities, the project team wanted to use lighting in an engaging way to enhance the visitor experience.

The LED industry was embroiled in its own storm of legal disputes, as blizzards engulfed certain parts of the Northern hemisphere this week. Nichia clinches a hard won victory against Everlight in the Eastern District of Texas this week, the court uphold its claim that Everlight had infringed its 250 patent. However, Everlight was able to bag a win in an earlier Michigan court ruling that has invalidated two of Nichia’s key YAG patents.

Osram Licht AG's Malaysian unit, Osram Opto Semiconductors (M) Sdn Bhd, is setting up a research and development (R&D) center here to serve the general lighting and illumination sector in Asia.

Royal Philips today announced the appointment of Jean Botti as Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer as part of the company’s strategy to capture a larger portion of the HealthTech opportunities. Jean Botti, who will join Philips as of April 1, 2016 from Airbus Group (AIR), will become a member of Philips’ Executive Committee and will report directly to Philips CEO Frans van Houten. Jean Botti will succeed Jim Andrew, who left Philips in the fourth quarter of 2015 for personal reasons.

The worst is thought to be over as 2015 comes to an end, a quick overview of developments in the past year show product prices have reached new historical lows in the past year. The elimination race has escalated with restructures becoming the new norm in the industry.

The California Energy Commission adopted first-in-the-nation energy standards for the next generation of light bulbs. The standards cover small-diameter directional lamps, often used in track lighting, and general purpose light-emitting diodes - commonly called LEDs - used to replace typical existing home lighting.

Imagine a lamp without a light bulb. The People's light is an exciting new textile product developed by Finnish textile heritage company Finlayson. The People's light includes a LED embedded light film which lasts up to 10,000 hours. The lamp is light and can be folded flat, making it an ideal product for web stores and retailers.

This Saturday, the non-profit arts organization, ILLUMINATE, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and world-renowned artist Leo Villareal will officially re-light The Bay Lights, an iconic LED lighting installation on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, using equipment developed by Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), the global leader in lighting. The artwork, which originally appeared in March 2013 as a two-year installation, will now permanently illuminate the San Francisco Bay’s night sky with 25,000 Philips connected light points and an advanced cloud-based connected lighting platform to remotely monitor and maintain the lighting system.

Power management company Eaton today announced that the biggest names in the National Hockey League (NHL®) and American Hockey League (AHL) will play their all-star events this weekend under its innovative and energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) digital lighting system.

One of the benefits of automating control systems within buildings is the ability to customize services and personalize a user’s environment; the human machine interface (HMI) is the gateway to such controls. The addition of proximity sensing is an underutilized improvement to many interfaces in an automated building ecosystem, including thermostats, security-system keypads, monitors and elevator call buttons. Proximity sensors can improve the user experience, decrease power consumption, and increase the life of the liquid crystal display (LCD) and backlight.

The IG Series parking garage luminaires and KR Series LED downlights by Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE) are now available to ship in volume. Both series feature cutting-edge Cree® WaveMax™ Technology, an optical platform with a revolutionary combination of control, uniformity and efficiency to deliver a superior visual experience in new form factors that are intelligent in both design and function.

EpiTop Inc., a leading company in the development and manufacturing of deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes (DUV LEDs) today announces that they have demonstrated high performance DUV LEDs with wavelength at 280nm from a single 4545 large chip device, achieved a world record optical output power of 176.6 miliwatt @ 1A dc operation at room temperature. According to the best of their knowledge it is so far the highest reported optical power from a single die at such shorter wavelength under dc operation. The L-I and IV characteristic of the 4545 large chip was plotted below.