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Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next PageABE FMaGSMARKETSLED lighting lifts the gloomnewsviewsAlthough the high-brightness LED market looks set todeflate in 2009, the general industry mood remains positive,with certain sectors such as LCD backlighting, andlighting in particular, providing cause for optimism. BobSteele of Strategies Unlimited, a market research firm,says that the market for packaged HB-LED devices grewby 11% in 2008, but is likely to shrink by 5% in 2009 (seep.15). The fastest growing sector of the device market in2008 was lighting, although this remains small in size(below $0.5 billion). However, a separate market studyby the same firm indicates that the market for LED lightingfixtures will reach $2.14 billion in 2009 and grow to$5.33 billion. At the LED device level, visibility remainspoor. Steele expects growth to resume in 2010, assumingthe economy as a whole recovers. Between 2008 and2013, the compound average annual growth rate is predictedto be 19.3%, with the market reaching $12.4 billionin 2013. ◀OUTDOOR LIGHTINGLA looking at LEDstreet lightsThe City of Los Angeles, with help from the Clinton Climate Initiative(CCI), has unveiled what could turn out to be the largest LED streetlighting retrofit project ever undertaken by a city to date. Over afive-year period, beginning in July 2009, the city’s Bureau of StreetLighting plans to replace 140,000 existing streetlight fixtures in thecity with LED units that will improve LA’s lighting quality, reduceelectricity usage, and ease what is known as sky glow — the artificialillumination of the night sky.The City of LA believes that the $57 million overhaul will lead to a40% reduction in electricity for street lighting, while reducing carbonemissions by 40,500 tons a year. Through energy and maintenancesavings the project is expected to pay for itself in 7 years. Uponfull implementation, the city will save $10 million annually.The City plans to install 20,000 fixtures in the first year beginningJuly 2009, with 30,000 in subsequent years. More than half willreplace 100-175W lamps, with a further 40% in the 200-250W range.The project also will include the installation of remote monitoringunits at all 140,000 fixtures to automatically report failures, enablingimmediate repairs.“If every city followed the example of Los Angeles and reducedthe electricity used by their streetlights by 50 percent, it would beequivalent to eliminating over 2.5 coal plants per year,” said PresidentClinton at the project launch. “We would do that while savingtaxpayers money...[and] we would also reclaim our night sky.” CCI’sOutdoor Lighting Program works with partner cities to improve theenergy efficiency of street and traffic light systems through a combinationof technical, purchasing, and project assistance. ◀MORE DETAILS: www.ledsmagazine.com/news/6/2/16BUSINESSPerkinElmer buysOpto TechnologyPerkinElmer has acquired Opto Technology Inc., asupplier of LED-based lighting components and subsystemsbased inWheeling, Illinois.The deal adds opticalsubsystems toPerkinElmer’s portfolioof high-brightnessLED components, andwill help PerkinElmerprovide SSL productsto OEMs serving thehealth, safety andsecurity markets. Bothcompanies exhibitedat Strategies in Light2009; the photo showsTaxiway light on show atStrategies in Light.an Opto Technology LED-based in-ground taxiwaylight, which requires little or no maintenance over 5years and meets the applicable standards for color andnarrow beam patterns.“The addition of Opto Technology expands PerkinElmer’spresence in the solid-state specialty lighting marketplaceand broadens the portfolio of LED subsystem capabilitiesthat we can provide to our OEM customers,” saidDavid Nislick, president of PerkinElmer’s Illumination andDetection Solutions business. ◀MORE DETAILS: www.ledsmagazine.com/news/6/2/3LEDsmagazine.com APRIL 2009 7Previous Page | Contents | Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next PageABE FMaGS