The “BEKA LEDlume” is the latest range from the South African street lighting manufacturer BEKA. All variations of these luminaires are equipped with Oslon SSL LEDs by Osram Opto. The “BEKA LEDlume” series is designed to improve the energy efficiency and durability of lighting in the streets of the African continent. Back in 2010, BEKA equipped its luminaires for the World Cup stadia in South Africa with LEDs supplied by Osram Opto. Upon selecting the LED for the new street lights “BEKA LEDlume&rdqu...

A Richmond manufacturing company was selected to produce a new street light technology that could result in huge energy savings for cities, businesses and individuals around the globe. LAD-JD Lighting of Muncie designed a new patent-pending LED street light that uses 90 percent less energy than current street lights. The Muncie company then stumbled across Richmond's CMJ Corp. -- a Department of Defense contractor -- during Google Internet searches to try to find a nearby manufacturer that could mass-produce the technology. The unit uses just 13 watts of pow...

City officials announced that a program to replace more than 35,000 streetlights with brighter, energy efficient bulbs is under way. About 80 percent of the city's streetlights over the next 17 months will get new magnetic induction lights that have a whiter illumination over the current sodium vapor lamps. "The city will save $2.2 million annually from reduced energy and maintenance costs, and the higher-quality light will make our neighborhoods safer," Mayor Jerry Sanders said. According to the city, the life span of the new bulbs runs up to 100,000 hours, or ...