The Path To Mainstreaming LED Lighting December 28, 2009
Posted by ledguy in Christmas lights, The Business.Tags: Home Depot, Osram, Philips, Philips Lighting, Sylvania
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With a flurry of year-end news about LED lighting, I can detect that we are at the start of a big upswing in the mainstream adoption of LED lighting. The press release wars are starting, leading lighting brands are putting more product on retail shelves and showcase installations are being promoted. (more…)
More LED Bulb Sightings at Home Depot! December 4, 2009
Posted by ledguy in Products, Replacement bulbs, The Business.Tags: Home Depot, Philips, Philips Lighting, Replacement bulbs, solid state lights, SSL lighting
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Back in September I posted about this display of Philips LED lights at Home Depot. At the time, I wondered if this was just this store manager or a real retail push by Philips. I now have the answer — it’s real!
Philips LED lights in Home Depot, Waltham MA
The photo in that post was from a Home Depot in Watertown MA. I have since seen similar displays at stores in Norwood and Waltham.
Clearly, Philips is staking out shelf space as the first-to-market. But are the products ready for prime time? Will this pioneer strategy give them first mover advantage or backfire if the products don’t meet consumer expectations? I expressed some doubts in my last post and have now bought a couple of the bulbs to try out. Stay tuned for the reviews!
Philips LED lights, Norwood MA
L-Prize — Near a Winner? September 25, 2009
Posted by ledguy in News, Products, Replacement bulbs, The Business.2 comments
Will this bulb win the L-Prize?
This NY Times article give Philips the pole position for this $10 million prize. Win or lose, it is great for LED lighting. (more…)
OLEDS in the New York Times September 7, 2009
Posted by ledguy in News, OLED, The Business.Tags: GE Lighting, LED, led lights, OLED, Organic LED, Osram, Philips, Philips Lighting, solid state lights, SSL lighting
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I haven’t written about Organic LEDs yet — from what I had read, they were pretty far off in the future. This New York Times article describes several innovative, exciting and exotic lights that can be created with OLEDs. If I were the product manager, I’d focus on a simple panel to replace the ubiquitous, standard 4-foot fluorescent tube fixture. (more…)
LED Bulb Sighting at Home Depot! September 6, 2009
Posted by ledguy in Products, Replacement bulbs, The Business.Tags: led lights, Luxeon, Philips, Philips Lighting, solid state lights, SSL lighting
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Philips LEDs at Home Depot
Nestled among the CFLs at Home Depot were 3 Philips LED bulbs of fairly mainstream sizes. IMHO, this is bad merchandising for these products which are not ready for mainstream markets. (more…)
Cree Financials Good; Strategy is More Interesting August 20, 2009
Posted by ledguy in News, The Business.Tags: CREE, LED, led lights, solid state lights, SSL lighting
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LED lighting leader Cree announced their quarterly and fiscal annual earnings. The numbers are good and come with the usual “record-breaking” spin of earnings announcements. Behind the numbers Cree’s perceptive understanding of the lighting market and creative approaches to overcoming resistance to LEDs is even more impressive.
Three Initiatives Accelerate LED Streetlight Adoption August 14, 2009
Posted by ledguy in Streetlights, The Business.Tags: CREE, DOE, LED, LED City, led lights, LEDCity, solid state lights, SSL lighting, Street lights
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Industry, foundations, and now the federal government are getting behind a movement to convert streetlights to LEDs.
The Outlook for LED Manufacturing Efficiency August 13, 2009
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Trade magazine LEDs Magazine and their accompanying blog provide this detailed view of the state of LED manufacturing process (blog post here). Bottom line: manufacturing processes for LEDs are about where computer chips were in 1975.
Are LED lights efficient over their entire lifecycle? August 11, 2009
Posted by ledguy in News, The Basics, The Business.1 comment so far
A controversy bubbled up in the NY Times yesterday – does it take so much energy to manufacture LEDs that it offsets the energy saved by using them? A new study answers this question that has already been answered by the DOE…. (more…)
Streetlights — the first market entry product for LEDs? August 8, 2009
Posted by ledguy in News, Streetlights, The Business.3 comments
Since I first wrote about LED streetlights in Mill Valley, CA back in September, a long list of cities have joined as well. Will streetlights be the first product to mainstream LED lighting?
