MetLife recently took out an energy savings policy with GE Lighting, upgrading to Evolve LED outdoor lighting in parking lots at 10 office locations and switching to more energy-efficient fluorescent lighting at its 650,000-square-foot administrative center in St. Louis.

The 2012 GE Edison Award is presented to Hervé Descottes, Jeff Taylor and Jessica Tchah of L’Observatoire International for lighting Vintry Fine Wines in New York, N.Y. Read more about all of our GE Edison Award recipients.

Highlighting its continuous commitment to next-generation LED lighting solutions, GE’s Lumination™ LED Luminaires, Evolve™ LED Scalable Area Lights and Tower Bridge lighting retrofit project have been recognized with three 2013 Architectural SSL magazine Product Innovation Awards (PIA). 

GE Lighting has received recognition for three products in the 2013 Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Solid-State Lighting Design Indoor Competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

On May 24, 1935, the first night baseball game was played at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. GE Lighting was there to spark a lighting revolution. According to the legendary announcer Red Barber, "As soon as I saw the lights come on, I knew they were there to stay."

Tarentum Borough, Pa. is converting 100 percent of its street lighting to GE's new Evolve™ LED Scalable Cobrahead fixtures with dimmable photocells, saving nearly $40,000 a year. GE Capital facilitated a lease-to-own financing strategy that allowed the city to achieve cash flow positive status from day one of the project.

GE Lighting's Evolve LED Scalable Cobrahead fixture has earned a Best-in-Class designation in the Roadway Lighting category in the 2012 Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) Solid-State Lighting Design Competition. The NGL awards were created by the U.S. Department of Energy to recognize excellence in energy-efficient LED commercial lighting unit design.

GE Tetra EdgeStrip and Tetra miniStrip LED systems for cabinet signs have been recognized by Environmental Design & Construction (EDC) magazine as two of their Top 10 products of the year.

GE Lighting—inventor of many of the major lighting technologies at work today, including the first visible LED 50 years ago—has signed an agreement to acquire Boulder, Colorado-based Albeo Technologies Inc., a privately held LED fixture manufacturer established in 2004.

GE Lighting continues to evoke the imagination of architects and lighting designers with LED luminaires that inspire new commercial ceiling landscapes. The Lumination™ LED Suspended Luminaire aims to redefine office, retail and hospitality environments with captivating form and function.

In an Australian first, the City of Sydney is rolling out new energy-efficient GE LED street and park lighting, halving electricity use and carbon pollution compared to conventional lighting, and saving the city approximately $800,000 per year in energy and reduced maintenance.

NACS, the Association for Convenience and Fuel Retailing, has named two GE Lighting Solutions products as "Cool New Products" at the NACS Show: Tetra EdgeStrip for cabinet signs and Evolve LED Area Lighting.

On Oct. 9, 1962, GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., "turned on" the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED). In the 50 years since, GE has been on the forefront of LED innovation.Learn more about the beginning of the LED era, and how the sky’s the limit for LED technology.

Its bright orange and purple box signs and pole signs help Public Storage stand out, but with as many as eight signs at one property, the company wanted to improve energy efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. GE Tetra LED Lighting Systems are expected to save $1.9 million in combined energy and maintenance costs each year.

Thanks to new GE Evolve LED Outdoor Lighting Systems, the city of Las Vegas estimates that it will soon save nearly $1.7 million in annual energy costs by reducing electricity use by more than 20 million kilowatt hours (kWhs).

Sobeys and Kudrinko’s – winners of Supermarket News’ 2012 Sustainability Excellence Awards – have been able to significantly reduce their carbon footprint, saving cash as well as the environment. One reason: Both have selected GE Immersion RV40 LED systems as part of comprehensive energy-saving solutions.

Lighting designers, specifiers and property managers can shape indoor spaces in engaging new ways with the LED Architectural Lighting portfolio from GE Lighting Solutions. These LED systems add rich layers, bold backdrops and dramatic accents to retail shops, hotels, offices and restaurants.

When Lake Nona, Florida pursued a vision to line its Southeast Orlando streets with new lighting, the 7,000-acre, master-planned community needed to match exacting aesthetic guidelines to leading-edge technology. Community leaders found their answer in GE Lighting's Evolve™ LED Contemporary Twin Support Post Top and Evolve LED Roadway fixtures.

Wawa convenience stores wanted visually appealing, simple-to-install vertical refrigerated display lighting. The company found the answer in Immersion™ RV30 LED systems from GE Lighting. Wawa now enjoys combined energy and maintenance savings exceeding $1 million a year.

Spectrum Health of Grand Rapids, Mich. focused on revamping their parking decks with three goals in mind: improve security, reduce maintenance costs and save energy. After retrofitting 1.25 million square feet of parking garage space and more than 3,500 parking spaces with 1,500 GE Evolve LED Garage fixtures, Spectrum accomplished all three goals.

With the LED lighting expertise of GE Lighting, a spectacular refurbishment of London’s iconic Tower Bridge has welcomed the world to the 2012 London Olympics. The stunning architectural details of the bridge are now clearly visible at night for the first time in its 118-year history.

To reduce energy consumption while improving light quality, the London-based travel agency teamed with GE Lighting to develop a one-to-one retrofit lighting solution for its retail store in Peterborough, England.

Brookshire Brothers recently launched a facility-wide lighting update, including in-store, parking lot, exterior signage and refrigerated case fixtures. Using a myriad of new linear fluorescent lighting (LFL) and LED technologies from GE Lighting, Brookshire Brothers is saving more than $235,000 in annual operating costs. Watch the video, read the case study and explore the photo gallery.

Tower Bridge, one of the world's most recognizable landmarks, has been transformed with a new world-class lighting system in time to mark the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The energy efficient lighting system features GE Tetra Contour LED lighting, and gleamed white to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

GE Lighting LED solutions were recently installed in several locations at Marriott International’s headquarters in Bethesda, Md. The installations have enriched lighting quality, heightened employee security and improved energy efficiency. Following its corporate campus-wide lighting update, Marriott will use 860,000 fewer kilowatt hours (kWhs) of electricity and save more than $120,000 in combined energy and maintenance costs a year. 

GE Tetra® PowerStrip LED systems installed in the new advertising panels at the entrance to Frankfurt International Airport achieve energy savings of more than 60%. The new panels, together measuring 29 meters wide by 14 meters high, feature a total of 285 LED modules per sign. Tetra® PowerStrip is frequently specified to replace fluorescent light sources.

Businesses can at last bid farewell to obtrusive fluorescent tubes and distracting, dated lighting fixtures. New Lumination™ Recessed LED Troffers from GE Lighting Solutions bring the option of sleek, modern styling to traditionally uninspired commercial ceiling space. The chic, slim fixtures as thin as the width of a finger emit a crisp, pleasing light and instantly enhance the aesthetic of any room.

For businesses intent on keeping up appearances, the two newest members of the GE Tetra® LED Lighting Systems family deliver superior light uniformity in shallow cabinet signs. GE Lighting Solutions introduces Tetra EdgeStrip and Tetra miniStrip, which are designed to replace T8 fluorescent tubes by offering a number of features that provide superior visual performance in any climate while delivering up to 90 percent energy savings compared to T8 lamps.

GE Lighting is taking its energy-saving, cost-reducing lighting solutions on the road again with the 2012 GE Lighting Revolution Tour. This tradeshow on wheels is designed to give designers, distributors, architects, contractors, facility maintenance and utility executives a first-hand experience of GE’s latest innovations in lighting technology.

The next generation of Tetra® LED lighting systems for channel letters provide outstanding uniformity and use fewer modules than previous models. Fewer modules means fewer components will need to be replaced and repaired over time, which can translate to less maintenance and easier upfront installation.