Do lighting energy-saving pioneer, Cree with LED fully armed workplace

CREE recently announced that it plans to replace all of its headquarters and manufacturing plant lighting into LED, and disclosed the results of the first phase of the replacement. Cree headquarters parking lot, entrance, lobby and conference rooms are now all use energy-saving environmental protection XLamp LED. Cree's LED workplace replacement (LED Workplace conversion) demonstrated LED's energy efficiency and light quality, LED lighting is now a viable choice for commercial and residential customers.

After the research on the energy consumption before and after the replacement of the lighting equipment, the energy saving of the LED lamp is confirmed. The results showed that the total energy consumption of the new LED was 48% lower than that of the incandescent lamp, fluorescent lamp and high pressure sodium lamp. Energy saving, environmental protection, low maintenance and processing costs in one of the LED lighting equipment is now a real alternative to traditional lighting solutions.

Local utilities - Duke energy (Duke Energy, one of the nation's largest power companies) is working with Cree to tap the benefits of LED lighting. Duke energy customers have been very interested in learning how to save money through energy efficiency, so the support of LED and other innovative technologies as their own responsibility. Duke hopes that the energy efficiency plan will be approved next year, and the company is focused on providing customers with a full range of lighting solutions, in which they hope to develop a number of projects that can benefit from LED technology.

Cree chairman and CEOChuck Swoboda said: "it is generally believed that LED lighting is still a few years away from the application of a wide range of applications, but it turns out that Cree technology can now make LED lighting program into reality. The replacement of the company's lighting equipment shows that the LED lighting revolution is progressing well and will demonstrate its benefits in terms of energy conservation, maintenance costs and environmental impacts. "

In addition, Cree also launched a new website www.ledworkplace.org and other agencies to share the LED workplace lighting to replace the results and implementation details, in addition to lighting equipment vendor information, the new site also includes related light, energy and maintenance standards, these standards form the LED lighting based cost savings. The site will also focus on other LED site installation.

Source: power system