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Halonix Becomes the First Lighting Brand in the Country to Get Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Certification
One of India’s leading lighting companies, Halonix Technologies recently made headlines when it became the first lighting brand in the country to get Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certification f
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Philips Lighting and Shiv Nadar Foundation Join Hands to Create Awareness About Energy Efficiency and Climate Change
Philips Lighting, the global leader in lighting, has announced its decision to partner with the Shiv Nadar Foundation with an aim to create awareness among the youth of India, especially school childr
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JBVNL to Distribute Led Tube Lights and Fans to Consumers
Replacement of conventional bulbs with LED bulbs was a huge success in Ranchi and now the Jharkhand Bijli Vitaran Nigam Ltd (JBVNL) is gearing up distributes fans and tube lights that would save energ
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Ghaziabad Residents will Soon Have More than 50,000 Conventional Lights Replaced with LED Lights
Ghaziabad’s streetlights will soon be revamped and about 50,214 streetlights in Ghaziabad district will be replaced with LED energy-saving lights, sodium bulbs and tubelights. This project has b
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Government of India to Extend its Lighting Efficiency Program
Owning up to the fact that India has become one of the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gases, India aims to extend its lighting efficiency program to seven other Asian countries and the UK with ai
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Delhi Targets March 31st 2017 to illuminate all Dark Spots with LED Lights
The Delhi government recently announced that it has started working on illuminating 7,438 dark sports falling in the entire North and East MCD areas with the target to curb down accident rates caused
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SMDC Does the Unimaginable – Converts 2 Lakh Lights into LED – It’s a First in the World!
Under the spearhead of Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) replaced close to 2 lakh conventional str
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Vishay Intertechnology Introduces High-brightness LED Power Module
Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. has come up with a new metal-core-based cool white LED power module that features 12 high-brightness LEDs with high luminous flux of 4000 lm each at 1A. Further, to simpli
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LG Display’s OLED Lighting to Converge with Furniture
LG Display has entered a one-of-its-kind deal with Korean Furniture giant, Fursys Group for its specialised home furniture brand, iloom. The deal is supposed to mark the first ever convergence project
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ZappLight Releases LED Trap Light to Combat Zika Virus
ZappLight’s new LED bulb, a trap light, is designed to combat Zika virus and other mosquito-transmitted diseases thus provides a chemical-free, spray-free, and fume-free solution to bug invaders, al
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SmartCharge Light plans mass production for its SmartCharge 2.0
Rechargeable LED Light Bulb that can operate normally even when there is a power outage is now seeking crowd-funding support to enter mass production. In fact, SmartCharge Light is preparing its seco
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DURIS® S 5 is Now Also Available in 5 Colours, Including Various White
Osram Opto Semiconductors has come up with advanced DURIS® S 5 portfolio. The further improved and expanded new DURIS® S 5 family consists of various white and now also coloured medium power LEDs wi
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Samsung Reaches Benchmark with 173-lm/W Light Efficacy
Electronics giant Samsung has reached a benchmark for its high-power packaged LEDs with major upgrade in its industry-leading performance levels. The efficacy of Samsung’s LH351B package that featur
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Cree Expands XQ LED Family, Announces Bulk Shipping of IG and KR Series
Cree, Inc. has recently expanded its XQ LED family by adding XLamp® XQ-A LED – the smallest LED building block available for designs that use white and color LEDs thus allow customers (li
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Chennai Corporation Clears 120-Crore LED Street Light Project
The Chennai Corporation cleared a 120-crore project to install 28,808 LED street lights. The proposed LED street light project is meant for the expanded areas including Tiruvotriyur, Manali, Madhavara
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LEDs Reduce Delhi’s Peak Load by 145MW; Saves City Rs 61 Lakh Daily
The successful implementation of the DELP scheme has seen not only a decrease in bulb prices but also an increase in households converting to LED lighting. Delhi has become a stellar example of this t
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Shastri Bridge to be Illuminated with LED Lights
The Magh Mela held every year in Allahabad will see several firsts this time, one of them being the lighting up of the historic Shastri Bridge with LED lights. The Mela authorities alongwith installin
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Marine Drive Gets Warm Glow with 400 Yellow LEDs
After a minor setback which saw the rejection of white LED lights along a section of Marine Drive by Shiv Sena, the Queen’s Necklace is once again aglow in amber light as the stretch from Nariman
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Sonar Fort to Soon Light Up with LEDs
The municipal council has signed a MoU with EESL to install new LED lights at Sonar Fort in Jaisalmer. Around 284 lights around Sonar Fort will be changed to LED lights leading to a decline in energy
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LED Bulb Prices Down by 10% in Madhya Pradesh
Procurement prices of 9W LED bulbs in Madhya Pradesh have dropped by 10% from INR 73 per bulb (to INR 64.41 per unit. This has been made possible through the government initiated DELP program. The pro
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30% Increase in LED Lamp Production
Production of LED lamps that consume about 80% less energy than incandescent bulbs has increased to 3 crore per month against 10 lakh a year ago. LED lamps production is likely to grow much further as
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