London's famed Tower Bridge will be even more picturesque in 2012, thanks to GE’s new energy efficient LED technology and a cabling system to illuminate the 800-foot bridge. The new lighting will replace a 25 year old legacy system and help cut the amount of energy required to light the landmark by 40%.

GE Lighting has designed the National Christmas Tree and contributed its lighting and decorations for 49 years. This year, thousands of GE Color Effects® programmable, color-changing LED lights are illuminating the tree’s branches.

Not only does light pollution run up electric bills and create carbon emissions, it interferes with ecosystems and obscures our view of the heavens. Fortunately, LED lighting technology can solve many of these problems by reducing four components of light pollution: high light levels, uplight, trespass light and glare.

The pursuit of LED lighting solutions "makes good sense" and is a "no brainer," according to leading retailers who spoke at GE Lighting’s 3rd annual conference on LED & Energy Efficient Lighting Trends for Retail, held this month at the GE Lighting Institute in East Cleveland, Ohio.

GE Lighting has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Lightech, a privately held, advanced lighting technology leader based near Tel Aviv, Israel. The acquisition will expand GE's capability in solid-state lighting with intelligent power supply technology, and will accelerate development of more optimized, energy-efficient LED systems.

Nuventix, creator of an LED cooling technology for energy-efficient lighting, has announced that GE has provided capital alongside other investors and recently entered into a license agreement to access Nuventix’s extensive patent portfolio. "Nuventix's technology can improve the quality of LED lights by making them brighter, longer lasting and potentially cheaper," said Steve Briggs, GE Lighting.

More than 70 years after debuting its fluorescent lighting fixtures at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, GE used North America’s largest lighting trade show to unveil the next big thing in lighting: LED Edgelighting fixtures. It’s an innovation that represents a once-a-century turning point.

Across the supermarket industry, increasing energy costs have had a dramatic impact on retailers’ refrigerated display and lighting decisions. In the past few years, LED lighting technology has evolved to create tremendous energy savings compared to linear fluorescent. Now retailers have a powerful tool that they can use to combat rising energy costs. Read more from the May 2011 issue of Grocery HQ.  

GE's participation at LightFair 2011 this week spotlights the progress that its engineering and technology teams have made with the development of a line of energy-efficient LED edge lighting fixtures enabled by Pentelic™ lighting solutions, an offering from Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies.

Refrigeration and lighting account for more than 50 percent of total energy use in the average U.S. supermarket, making these systems the best targets for energy savings. GE Lighting Solutions is expanding its LED refrigerated display lighting product portfolio with ImmersionTM RH10, which provides a competitive advantage for grocery, convenience and specialty retailers.

GE and The Government of Canada have announced they are each investing $1.3 million, for a research project with Les Serres St-Laurent (Savoura) and McGill University, to develop innovative LED lighting technology for commercial greenhouses to help improve growing efficiency while reducing business operational costs.

The City of East Cleveland is decreasing energy costs by replacing 45 standard-technology municipal street lights with GE's award-winning Evolve™ LED roadway street lights. The project grows out of a long partnership between GE Lighting and East Cleveland, which has been the home of the unit's headquarters for close to 100 years.

The technology development arm for the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), GE Lighting, and the University of Maryland—as part of a two-year solid-state lighting program with the U.S. Department of Energy have announced the successful demonstration of a 1,500-lumen LED bulb.

The classic look of yesterday meets the energy efficiency and quality of light of today in the GE Evolve™ LED Contemporary Domed Area Light from GE Lighting Solutions. A recognized winner in the Next Generation Luminaries™ Design competition, the new LED fixture offers energy efficiency and a long 50,000-hour rated life at 85 percent of initial lumens with an output of 4,900 lumens at 90 watts.

The Evolve^TM LED Area Light is expected to save up to 48% of the electricity traditionally required to light Walmart Puerto Rico's parking lots, while cutting maintenance costs by an estimated 75%!