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Green LEDs for Efficient Lighting Using Solar Technology

Greg Crew — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:17:40 +0000

The folks at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are applying a fabrication method for building highly efficient multi-junction solar cells to aid in the quest to increase LED efficiency for white light.

Green light: This gallium-indium phosphide LED was fabricated by researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Solar-cell manufacturing techniques could yield LEDs that require 20 percent less energy.

A new approach to fabricating light-emitting diodes (LEDs) could be used to increase their efficiency by 20 percent while yielding higher-quality light than conventional LEDs. Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, CO, have demonstrated the approach by making a yellow-green LED that could soon be combined with other colored LEDs to yield white light. The new LED could help replace current, inefficient methods of generating white light…
-Green LEDs Continued

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American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) – Lighting Retrofit

Greg Crew — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:38:36 +0000

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) can be funded for energy saving and efficient lighting retrofit projects. It would be worth it to visit recovery.gov to see if your lighting retrofit project qualifies.

How does the Recovery Act work?

Twenty-eight different agencies – such as the Departments of Education; Health and Human Services; and Energy – have been allocated a portion of the $787 billion in Recovery funds. Each agency develops specific plans for how it will spend its Recovery Act funds. The agencies then award grants and contracts to state governments or, in some cases, directly to schools, hospitals, contractors, or other organizations. The agencies are required to file weekly financial reports on how they are spending the money and their specific activities related to Recovery funds. Starting in October 2009, recipients filed their first of regular quarterly reports on how they are spending the Recovery Act funds that they received.

Continue to recovery.gov

Lighting Maintenace and Retrofit Company Informational Video

Greg Crew — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:04:02 +0000

A&K Energy Conservation Inc, was founded in 1967 as a Lighting Maintenance and Retrofit Company. We have enjoyed many years of servicing our customers through lighting service, planned group relamping, and through upgrades to new and more energy efficient lighting. We hold ourselves to the highest possible standards in the industry and are proud to produce a little introduction video to give you an idea of who we are and what we are about.

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