Taking steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce its overall carbon footprint, the City of Asheville has initiated North Carolina’s first large-scale deployment of LED street lights. There are 3,643 LEDway street lights from Durham-based manufacturer Cree, Inc. being installed, with projected savings of $260,000 annually.

As part of a city-wide goal to reduce energy usage and improve nighttime visibility and overall facility safety, the South Durham Water Reclamation Facility installed energy-efficient LED lighting from Cree, Inc. The new Cree lighting simultaneously addresses the facility’s competing exterior lighting requirements – the need to improve safety and light levels and the need to reduce energy usage and maintenance costs.

Driving the next generation of mainstream LED lighting adoption, Cree, Inc. introduces the breakthrough XLamp XB-D LED. The first LED based on an innovative new Cree technology platform, the XLamp XB-D LED ushers in a new era of price-performance for lighting-class LEDs. This LED can further simplify designs, ultimately removing a key barrier to widespread LED implementation—up-front system cost.

Cree, Inc. extends its high-brightness LED leadership with the commercial availability of the new Screen Master C4SMT and C4SMD 4mm LEDs. The superior brightness and unrivaled far-field pattern matching, combined with industry-leading packaging technology, can enable Cree LED customers to deliver a better viewing experience for their audience and achieve lower system and operating costs than previous generations of LEDs.

Cree, Inc. announces it has granted five LED lighting manufacturers licenses to select Cree patents through its recently launched remote phosphor licensing program. By making fundamental remote phosphor patents available through license, Cree is further enabling LED lighting adoption, as Cree innovations facilitate the development of LED lights combining remote phosphor optical elements with blue LEDs.

Cree, Inc. has announced the commercial availability of the new LMH2 LED module family, designed to speed time-to-market for high-quality LED luminaires. The barrier-breaking LMH2 is the only LED module delivering 80-lumens-per-watt system efficacy combined with CRI greater than 90. The modules feature Cree TrueWhite® Technology, a revolutionary way to generate white light with LEDs. The modules deliver high efficiency with beautiful light chara...

Cree, Inc.’s Ruud Lighting subsidiary will hold a groundbreaking ceremony today to highlight a 208,000-square-foot expansion to its manufacturing facility. The company’s $24.5 million investment will focus on manufacturing and assembly of LED lighting and is expected to create 469 new full-time jobs over the next four years.

Cree, Inc. announces that more than 930 LR6 six-inch LED downlights and LR24 LED lay-in luminaries have been installed at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base as part of an overall renovation currently underway. Located outside of San Diego, Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps, serving as its prime amphibious training base for nearly 100,000 Marines.

Cree, Inc. announces the commercial availability of high-voltage XLamp XT-E and XM-L LEDs. These new LEDs can enable the use of more efficient, smaller drivers to lower cost for compact lighting applications such as candelabras and retrofit lamps.

Cree, Inc. continues to extend the advantage of its innovative, industry-leading XLamp LED family with the announcement of new levels of performance for its highly efficient XLamp XP-G LEDs, now delivering up to 140 lumens per watt. The proven XP-G LED can help lighting manufacturers reduce system cost and complexity and can make existing designs brighter and more efficient.

Cree, Inc. announces the commercial availability of TEMPO Services, a comprehensive set of quantitative and qualitative tests and analyses for LED-based lighting fixtures and lamps. TEMPO (Thermal, Electrical, Mechanical, Photometric and Optical) Services represent the accumulated advantage of Cree’s extensive experience with customer LED systems combined with the use of calibrated test equipment to give LED lighting manufacturers and end users...

Cree, Inc. have announced its entire family of LED-based troffer replacements, including the latest Cree CR series of troffers, have been qualified by the DesignLights Consortium™ (DLC), ensuring they meet the highest level of quality standards. Cree’s CR14™, CR 22™ and CR24™ troffers, along with the LR24™ and LR24-HE troffers, are the most efficient and have the highest CRI of any products rated in the DLC “Linear Panel” categori...

This application note demonstrates a remarkably simple way to incorporate the Cree XLamp® MP-L EasyWhite™ LED into a pendant light, a popular hanging luminaire that has traditionally used A-form incandescent bulbs and more recently self-ballasted CFLs.

In a move to improve lighting quality and safety at its Cold Canyon Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Waste Connections, Inc. upgraded its lighting system with Cree-powered Xeralux LED high-bay fixtures. The Xeralux fixtures feature Cree XLamp® XP-G LEDs, helping Waste Connections reduce its energy costs by almost two-thirds and nearly eliminating its maintenance costs.

The design and production of high-lumen, small form, point source illumination has been on of the more challenging solid-state lighting applications. Requirements for high lumen density combined with limited space for drive electronics and thermal dissipation have limited the adoption of LED illumination.

This application note demonstrates that an LED task light can readily outperform its linear fluorescent equivalent and incoperate dimming for mood setting and for additional energy savings.

Several Department of Energy (DOE) CALiPER program tests conducted in 2008-2010 evaluated a broad sample of market-available LED-based T8 lamps and concluded that they do not yet represent a viable option to the fluorescent lamp.

Addition of BetaLED® Product Line Strengthens Leadership Position in LED Lighting and Components

In the first century of electric lighting, the now universal bulb-luminaire dichotomy gave rise to a variety of basic illumination (lamp or bulb) technologies, thousands of different styles and configurations of these lamps along with tens of thousands of luminaires. A large class of lighting systems, from cove lighting to inceiling troffers are implemented with single (or multiple) linear fluorescent lamps (LFL)

First Cree LED Lighting Fixture Designed for International Markets Replaces MR16 Downlights, Delivers Rapid Payback, Highest CRI and Lowest Power Consumption