When Monroe Lee, owner of KIA AutoSport, began design on a new KIA dealership in Columbus, Ga., he decided to investigate lighting solutions that delivered bright, high-quality light while helping to reduce energy consumption in one of the facility's key areas: dealer lots.

Hubbell Lighting, a world leader in lighting innovation, announced today two new high-performance LED outdoor lighting solutions—Hubbell Outdoor Lighting’s LED Miniliter® MHS LED Floodlight and LED Geometric Wall Sconce family. Making a good thing even better, the company has taken two of its popular selling products and dramatically increased the efficiency and performance of them by upgrading the light sources to LED. Hubbell Miniliter MHS LED Floodlight Based on the proven design of its popular HID floodlight, Hubbell Outd...

New LED lighting along Maine’s Interstate 295 will improve roadway lighting and reduce energy costs. The Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) selected Holophane® HMAO™ LED high mast outdoor lighting fixtures from Acuity Brands, Inc. to retrofit 105 light towers that illuminate Interstate 295. The new HMAO LED high mast solution provides two distinct benefits for the MaineDOT: evenly distributed white light for enhanced illumination and greater energy efficiency compared to the previous lighting technology. HMAO LED hig...

Energy Smart Industry (ESI) announces the launch of LED outdoor lights under its energy efficiency program. The company has been providing with different lighting solutions in the past that cater to industries with different requirement and has helped many of them in reducing their electricity bills.

Generally speaking, those who believe that there is no possibility of a large scale replacement with LED street lamps mainly take two factors into account: the quality and cost of LED street lamps. The quality problem exists in all aspects: luminous flux, luminous efficacy, luminous decay, thermal dissipation, color temperature, luminance distribution, stability, homogeneity, power supply and lifespan of other components. On the other hand, the cost of street lamps is several even dozens times higher than conventional street lamps.

Japan is the birthplace of LED outdoor lighting including LED ambient lights, LED night safety street lights, which help to reduce crime, and other novel lighting fixtures.

Outdoor Lighting Perspectives, a provider of residential and commercial outdoor lighting systems, announces it is now offering homes and businesses LED fixtures as part of their full service outdoor lighting design, installation and maintenance offering. DG Lights of California will be OLP’s manufacturer and distributor of these new LED light fixtures.

Germany is initiating a trend in Europe – with the first highway service area equipped with brilliant modern LED lighting at the A24 in Walsleben, the Federal Ministry of Traffic is setting international standards. LED street lighting is the future technology - as they are remarkably lighter, more energy-efficient and have longer lifetime. Security is enhanced as dark areas and long shadows belong to the past. The pilot project in Walsleben East will demonstrate the superior performance of LED technology.

IESNA's 27th annual Street and Area Lighting Conference (SALC) held this year in Denver on October 12th through 15th. It’s reported that the event broke previous records for attendance with over 500 people present.