Lunera Lighting has been given an honor as a Premier Private GreenTech Company in AlwaysOn’s GoingGreen Silicon Valley 100. It's said that 2010 GoingGreen Silicon Valley 100 Top Private Companies list is characterized by companies weathering stormy economic weather through innovative business models, multinational partnerships, and creative use of government incentives. Hundreds of companies were assessed to determine the breakthrough potential of their technologies, market size, management team, and investors.

To better serve the needs of its customers throughout the Asia Pacific region, GT Solar has set up its new Asia operations headquarters in Hong Kong.   It has been doing business in Asia since 2002, and has played as an equipment provider, to help the region's early adopters establish their PV and polysilicon manufacturing operations. At present, many of these companies have grown to become some of the region's largest solar manufacturers in China, Korea, and Taiwan.

Fairchild Semiconductor prepared to show its latest technological advancements for mobile applications, as well as power solutions that focus on the smart grid at electronica 2010, in Munich, Germany, 9-12 November. It's reported that Fairchild's booth (Hall A4, #506) will feature technology demonstrations that enable mobile connectivity and optimize energy usage in power supplies (AC/DC and DC/DC), mobile, LED lighting, motor, solar, computing, consumer and automotive applications.

AOC has launched its most cutting-edge design, the “Razor” Series, which is considered to be the world’s slimmest LED monitor.

LED lighting technology developer Once Innovations has utilized its proprietary AC conditioning technology to turn out luminous flux of 1080 lumens at 11.8W and correlated color temperature of 2870 K. 50mm diameter AC LED modules are designed to connect to 120VAC, 60Hz mains without the need for additional electronics.

Carmanah solar LED airfield lights have been selected by the Calgary Airport Authority in a competitive bid situation as part of a massive facility upgrade.   The first phase installation includes Carmanah A704-5 solar LED airfield lights fitted with blue LEDs for taxiway edge lighting that can be easily relocated as airfield construction demands.

American 3,600-square-foot CITGO sign perched beyond the left field wall at Boston's Fenway Park has got an LED makeover. The iconic CITGO sign and its 9,000 feet of dancing LED lights, is having all of its LED lights replaced with more technologically advanced and energy efficient LED bulbs supplied by Nichia and Agilent.

SavWatt USA introduced a new 60 Watt Eco-Pole LED Street Light and Parking Lot Light powered by a patent pending unique Wind Turbine and Solar panels.   The SavWatt Eco-Pole enables to take the place of a traditional 250 watt metal halide light and requires no grid hook-ups, saving 100 percent of the energy costs, maintenance and pollution associated with the energy used to power a traditional light.

Hi Score Corporation has recently offered 510 Energy Saving EcoGreenBulb T5 Retrofit Kits to replace 1020 T8 fluorescent bulbs in the stairwells and facilities rooms of Trump Tower One in Sunny Isles, Florida.   The conversion will reduce the energy required to light these areas by more than 50%.  

A multi-topology LED driver ZXLD1374 has designed by Diodes Incorporated , to increase the performance of high brightness automotive, industrial and commercial lighting systems.   With the integrated 60V power MOSFET switch, the ZXLD1374 LED driver can produce a maximum LED current of 1.5A.

Acuity Brands has completed a pilot outdoor LED lighting project, which uses its Holophane(R) brand of luminaires to bring energy savings and sustainability to the scenic campus of Anderson University, Indiana.

ANC Sports Enterprises will debut two 10mm light emitting diode (LED) dasherboard displays at Joe Louis Arena when the Detroit Red Wings open the National Hockey League season against the Anaheim Ducks tonight.

Home Depot schedules to sell a Philips LED bulb which now called the 12-watt EnduraLED, to replace the common 60-watt incandescent.   According to representatives from Philips and Home Depot , the bulb will be available by the beginning of December and will cost between $40 and $50.  

Diodes Incorporated announced a multi-topology LED driver designed to increase the performance of high brightness automotive, industrial and commercial lighting systems. Operating in buck, boost and buck-boost modes, the ZXLD1374 LED driver's integrated 60V power MOSFET switch is capable of producing a maximum LED current of 1.5A. The IC uses high-side current sensing and patent pending control loops to achieve high accuracy current control of LED strings.

Benefiting from the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program, which provides software for emerging clean tech companies in North America and Europe, PearlLED is using Autodesk's Digital Prototyping software to help design a new LED lightbulbs.

Luminus Devices has installed CBT-90 white PhlatLight LEDs inside Martin Professional's new MAC 350 Entour™ lighting fixtures to brighten the stage on Crowded House's World Tour. The MAC 350 Entour is the entertainment lighting industry's first LED alternative to traditional high intensity discharge-based profile fixtures.

Bridgelux(R) has chose Electro Scientific Industries(ESI) 's fully automated wafer scriber, the AccuScribe(R) 2150P to support the manufacturing of its LEDs in the United States.

The members of Cree LED City(R) Program will cooperate with the DOE Municipal Solid-State Street Lighting Consortium (Consortium).

Acuity Brands has come out four white papers, which are comprise of four fundamental LED topics, such as  LED Binning, Photometric Measurement, Lumen Depreciation and Color Quality, to help educate the marketplace about LED lighting and technology and associated issues in lighting design.   "LED and Binning” relates to binning LEDs, color temperature, chromaticity and ANSI binning standards.  

Nexxus Lighting has to put off the laboratory of its first series of Array(TM) LED replacement lamps, because the product is under the review of the ENERGY STAR program.   Once the test is completed, Nexxus will submit its R30 product in both its flood and narrow flood configurations at 3000 deg Kelvin color temperature.

Energy-saving luminaires offer reliability, minimal maintenance for general lighting areas where security is imperative.

Dell launched new LED and laser colour printers which are available in colour printing technology to small and medium businesses and home offices worldwide.   The breakthrough LED printing technology, including the world's smallest A4 small business laser class colour printer, rounds out its printer family delivering optimal performance and energy efficiency to organisations of all sizes.

Diodes Incorporated has launched two 9-channel LED drivers with internal charge-pumps, which are suit for backlighting small-LCD screens, keypads and LED lights.   With three groups of 3-LED channels and its three independent PWM dimmable control inputs, the AL3158 provides a simple drive for RGB LEDs.   Meanwhile, the AL3159, with its versatile 3-wire logic decoding of LED current control, simplifies the driving of 9-LEDs for illuminating LCD screens and LED indicator control.  

Acuity Brands has set up its new training center at Sensor Switch facility in Wallingford, CT. According to the firm, this facility is designed to provide hands-on training for Sensor Switch customers and business partners as well as to showcase the newest Acuity Brands(R) intelligent LED lighting and lighting controls solutions.

RGB LED technology also features innovative lead frame design for superior heat dissipation

Ruud Lighting, one of the lead sponsors of Light Middle East, will present lighting solutions that are designed to meet the needs of consumers in the Middle East. It will showcase its latest LED lighting division – BetaLED, focusing on exterior lighting products and innovations including those for street lighting, area and pathway lighting, illumination for parking structures, specialised tunnel lighting, flood lights and security and perimeter lighting among others.

Acuity Brands, will present at the OLEDs World Summit Conference on September 29, 2010 in San Francisco. Peter Ngai, the company's Vice President of Research and Development, will present "An Accelerated Performance Roadmap for OLED Lighting," to discuss the design, performance and sustainability requirements needed from OLED panel manufacturers for the technology to be viable in general lighting and illumination applications.

ON Semiconductor, will introduce its newest LED lighting solutions with four products and GreenPoint(R) Interactive Online Design Simulation Tool  at the Strategies in Light Europe conference Sept. 27-29 in Frankfurt, Germany.

Midwest Innovative Products Inc designed LiteItUp night light that can best be described as a "user-customizable table top night light display".

LED lighting solution provider Optiled Lighting International Ltd. (Optiled) has collaborated with Circle K convenience store to launch a time-limited offer for the Optiled Super Star LED lamp. With this promotion, Optiled has become the first LED lighting provider to offer such products at convenience stores.