Kinetics LED lighting development for federal support

Color Kinetics today announced the company received the U.S. Department of energy (DOE) of $one million and seven hundred thousand for the development of LED lighting technology is provided, the main goal of LED development is to replace incandescent lamps for general lighting.

Color Kinetics company is one of the five companies to assist the development of the Department of energy investment, four other companies are: General Electric, Eastman Kodak, Osram Sylvania and SRI International, the total government funded $seven million, investment funds are used in the development of solid state lighting LED. According to the practice, the specific details of the use of funds by the Department of energy and other members agreed.

Color Kinetics's proposal is to develop LED lamps for general lighting, the company's goal is to develop a LED light source brightness can reach 60W the brightness of incandescent lamp, the brightness of the LED increased four times, up to 80 lumens per watt. Only to achieve this luminous efficiency can be close to the level of traditional lighting. In addition, the luminous efficiency of the lamp, the proposed development of LED lamps will be significantly better than the traditional lighting. This feature is also the essence of LED, LED can reduce the loss of light between the light source. The proposal is to achieve through the development of new hybrid LED light source package and system integration technology of LED model, to achieve this goal requires a company with the world's leading producer of LED Cree company (NASDAQ listed CREE) cooperation.

Color Kinetics and Cree will also be in the investment of $550000, all this shows that the two companies in advance LED in the field of general lighting development commitments. DOE said that the solid-state lighting has great potential, especially in the area of general lighting can achieve double efficiency, reduce the total energy consumption in the United States, on the other hand, it also saves the energy costs of consumers.

Color Kinetics President Bill Sims said: "in considering the advantages of LED in all aspects, the government also pay more and more attention to the development of LED technology, especially in the development of general lighting technology, which will bring huge energy savings for the country. Now, with the further development of our LED development and design efforts, coupled with our extensive professional and technical accumulation, Color Kinetics will continue to guide the development of the industry. We are committed to this year's launch of LED solutions for general lighting, we thank the Department of energy for our research support." Secretary of energy Samuel W. Bodman said "an important part of the solid-state lighting of President Bush's energy policy, but also can improve the utilization efficiency of the energy department's strategy, this technology can not only greatly reduce the energy consumption of the lighting in each building, but also can improve the safety of energy utilization."