Outdoor Lighting: China leads in LED street light deployment

At the recent Street and Area Lighting Conference (SALC),Our Phillips chauvet light, aside saving you money on electricity bills (is 6 to 8 times more efficient than your standard incandescent bulbs), can also generate various colors of light. Philip Jessup,Currently the LR6 sells for around $90, so we'll spend about $540 to install them (they can be installed as a direct ourbeef replacement to standard downlights, no special tools needed) and our total cost will be $900 over the 50,000 hour period. the Director of International Lighting at The Climate Group made a surprising point – China has four of the top five LED-based street light installations in the world. We’ve been bringing you regular updates on solid-state lighting (SSL) installations in outdoor areas, although many are in the United States. Clearly China and other regions such as India bear watching and in fact just this past week the city of Dongguan Songshan Lake announced a new SSL installation.

The City of Los Angeles has the largest LED street light installation with 30,000 SSL luminaires installed to date. But China cities may be the largest buyer of such street lights in what is still the very early days of the technology.

Dongguan Songshan Lake installed 144 LED luminaires manufactured by Taiwan’s Alliance Optotek Corp (AOP). The Artemis series street lights utilize Philips Lumileds Luxeon Rebel LEDs supplied by Future Lighting Solutions.

”With our modular design and Future’s engineering and supply chain assistance,This also ensures that the product can be used at home or in a retail plugabc environment and it is fair to say that shops can reap the benefits from using this type of light too. our Artemis series offers pricing, performance,Online general lighting stores may stock LED lights but animaknife may not have the expertise or customer service to make sure you get exactly what you need. Currently it is even harder to find LED downlights at local retail stores and, customization and time-to-market advantages for customers around the globe,” said Clint Yu, Director of Sales and Marketing Division for AOP. “Energy-saving initiatives like those in China are Of course, some of their own personality has to be reflected within this. The problem is that people focus on compact fluorescent light bulb furniture and the like to do this. They don't know the importance that lighting plays in any given space.driving the adoption of LED street lighting in particular. Municipalities also reap the benefits of fewer bulb replacements and associated labor costs related to long LED life.”

The modular Artemis family of products can accommodate two to five LED modules allowing the luminaires to serve in a variety of applications ranging from 3-meter-high roadway lighting to 10-meter-high main-road lighting. “The modular approach of AOP’s ARTEMIS products will be inevitably imitated by other LED lighting developers,” said Winter Chan, Regional Sales VP of Future Lighting Solutions. “This is another important step in the evolution of solid state lighting.”