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Great news for people looking to retrofit their businesses or homes with mains voltage GU10 bulbs. We have slashed pricing on the BRAND NEW range of Philips Master LED GU10 5.5W Dimmable. These amazing lamps deliver top quality 50W equivalent output, and come with Philips rock-solid 5yr warranty.
Now available for as low as £11.49ea +VAT. If you need more, give us a call and we can discuss price further!
If not now, when?!
Available HERE
Philips MasterLED GU10 5.5W dimmable
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Discounts on Philips MasterLED GU10 Lamps
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Philips launched their new MasterLED GU10 Spot, 5.5W=50W, Dimmable lamp at the beginning of the year. This lamp replaces the ever popular GU10 6W=50W – and offers higher light output (~50lumens).
As we begin to push the new GU10, we have decided to discount its price to get volume moving. GU10s are the ‘mainstay’ of the LED retrofit world, so we intend to shift a lot!
Our prices for the new 5.5W GU10 start at just £13.25+vat. We’ll do you a deal at less than £12.00 if you come to us with a large enough order! No excuses for not retrofitting you buildings now! Comes with a 5 year warranty. Philips are best in class – there’s a reason they are World no. 1 in LED….
BTW: we also reduced our 6W GU10 price to clear stock – still a fantastic product, and comes with a 5 year warranty.
You can buy the GU10 5.5W dimmable HERE
You can buy the GU10 6W dimable HERE
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London Goes LED in Biggest Ever Streetlight Upgrade
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Over 35,000 London streetlights are to go LED in a massive ‘invest to save’ project.
Transport for London is to spend close to £11 million installing a central management system and upgrading 35,000 lights to LED by 2016.
Further upgrades will be made over the next 10 years, with most of London’s streetlights to be LED by 2023, as part of a £4 billion investment in the capital’s roads.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said the project would bring lighting on the London’s roads ‘up to 21st century standards’.
Havard Engineering and CU Phosco – both winners at this year’s Lux Awards – will benefit from the work, with Havard winning a multimillion pound contract for the controls and CU Phosco picked as a preferred supplier for the post-top luminaires.
The controls system will be aligned with traffic flow and road usage, and will reduce maintenance costs by keeping track of light failures.
The programme aims to reduce carbon emissions by around 9,700 tonnes a year, delivering annual savings estimated at £1.85 million. Johnson said: ‘With tens of thousands of lights marking the way on our road network it makes complete sense to focus energy and resources on bringing them up to 21st century standards’.
‘This is the largest investment to modernise street lighting on major roads in our capital’s history and will not only cut carbon emissions and save money but it will also lead to even better and safer roads for Londoners’.
Please visit our main site to discover our range of street lighting products and other amenity lighting for projects. http://www.novelenergylighting.com/led-downlights/led-street-lights.html
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Energy Efficiency Financing for LED Upgrade Projects
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The Carbon Trust offers support and advice for companies that want to implement energy-efficiency schemes. It also runs an accredited supplier scheme. Alongside this it can offer – thanks to a partnership with Siemens Financial Services – structured finance packages which are designed so that savings exceed repayments, following an independent assessment of the energy-saving potential.
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All new Waitrose stores to be 100% LED
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Speaking at LuxLive today, Toby Marlow, general manager of sustainable development at Waitrose, revealed that all new Waitrose stores will be lit 100 per cent by LEDs from now on.
Marlow described how the retailer’s Ipswich store has undergone a complete LED refit covering office, retail and warehouse space – resulting in an overall efficacy of just seven watts per square metre, reducing running costs by up to 42 per cent.
‘Moving towards LED has been a step-change in design,’ Marlow said. ‘We can now position light where we want it and make greater use of contrasts. Efficiency and colour rendering has improved dramatically and we’re now up to 130 lumens per watt,’ he told the audience at the event.
Marlow says the redesign is between 40 per cent to 42 per cent more efficient than its equivalent T5 scheme – savings that would not have been possible just a year ago.
LED lighting first got a foothold in refrigerators and freezers, because LEDs work well in the cold, but Marlow said: ‘We’ve gone beyond refrigerators now. Everything in the Ipswich store is lit with LEDs.’
He notes a difference to the in-store ambience thanks to the clear, bright light, but said that some of the best feedback has been customers saying they didn’t notice the difference at all.
LEDs had previously been trialled in a branch of Waitrose in Stratford, but the Ipswich store is the first branch to go completely LED. ‘All new developments will be completely lit with LED and more traditional technology will be phased out,’ added Marlow.
Marlow stressed that it’s important to choose the right luminaires, the right LEDs and the right design. But having said that, Waitrose has had only 33 driver failures from the 35,000 installed. ‘There’s work to do around warranties,’ he warned. ‘But we’re seeing payback in under three years, and in the new store the payback has been under two years. It’s win-win – if you do it properly.’
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Updated Part L to come into force in April 2014
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Courtesy of Lux Magazine:
Updated Part L to come into force in April 2014
The long awaited new version of Part L- the section of the Building Regulations that covers energy efficiency will come into force in April 2014, the government has announced. The new regulations will insist on a 6% cut in CO2 emissions for new homes, and 9% for non-domestic buildings – significantly less than the 20% originally envisioned. Baroness Hanham also told Parliament that minimum efficiency standards for non-domestic lighting upgrades will be strengthened.
The regulations were originally supposed to come into force this year. The government now says the full regulations and impact assessment will be published ‘shortly’ with guidance to be published ‘ during the course of the summer’.
Lighting industry figures have been frustrated by the uncertainty surrounding the contents of the new regulations. Communities minister Don Foster said “Today’s measures mean business and householders will not only benefit from reduced energy bills but they will also know they are doing their bit to tackle climate change”
More legislation news:
Large firms face energy assessments
Large companies are to have their lighting assessed for energy efficient under proposals published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). Companies with more than 250 employees will have the efficiency of their lighting and other systems checked as part of the UKs implementation of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive.
The assessments will be required under the new Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme and are designed to help companies find ways to cut their energy use. Energy minster Michael Fallon said “Investing in energy efficiency can hugely benefit our big businesses, helping British businesses get ahead in the global race. Energy saving assessments will show exactly where the biggest savings can be made and if firms then go forward and invest, they will soon see the benefits”
DECC has predicted that on average an enterprise that takes up the recommendations after its asessment will invest £15,000 a year in energy efficiency and save £56,400 on its bills
Novel Energy Lighting supplies LED lighting products to business and public entities. We can also perform energy efficiency surveys at your site and recommend optimal lighting retrofit solution. Through our partners we offer finance for purchase of LED lighting. Energy cost savings cover loan repayments, making it cashflow neutral.
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Verbatim’s new VxRGB LED lamp for True-Colour performance
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An introduction to a very interesting new LED product that is specifically designed for high-end clients in jewelry stores, museums, high-end retail stores, hospitality etc.
We now sell the brand new Verbatim VxRGB True Colour LED lamp. The VxRGB is a special (only one in their range currently). It is designed as a ‘True Colour’ lamp, based on completely new technology that renders the entire colour spectrum (unlike old CRI/Ra standards which are skewed and incomplete esp. with LEDs). This lamp is manufactured using a violet chip (instead of blue), and uses a mix of red, green, and blue phosphors instead of just yellow phosphor. During a Verbatim demonstration we looked at a few sample items using standard halogen, standard LED, and the VxRGB, and sure enough the VxRGB made the colours really vital and clear (e.g. the guys navy blue sports jacket was really navy blue instead of black!). The VxRGB lamp works best by installing it alongside regular LED lamps, as the regular LED lamps provide the lumens output power, allowing the VxRGB to do the true colour lighting.
Clients are encouraged to offer the True Colour lamp supplemented with the regular LED lamps as a complete solution. This is very new to market, so allows for a differentiating sales pitch.
Please contact us for product presentation and technical information.
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Reduce costs with LED – Kosnic and Professional Electrician June 2013
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An interesting article by Kosnic:
LEDs were invented more than 50 years ago but they have taken decades to provide their worth in mainstream applications. Problems with colour rendition, lack of standardisation, and inability to dim have given LED lams a bad press and created confusion within the marketplace.
However, innovations in LED lighting technology and new product development are prompting an e-evaluation of whether now is the right moment to realise the carbon savings and energy efficiency of LEDs.
There are three main benefits of LEDs:
Robust
LEDs are solid state light sources and so are very robust. While an incandescent lamp will last for approximately 1,000 hours, an LED alternative will last for up to 40,000 hours. Many manufacturers will be happy to guarantee this period of operation, offering free replacements in the event of early failure.
Therefore, an LED lamp fitted in a reception area and used for seven hours every day of the week, will still be functioning after 10 years. This delivers both energy and maintenance savings. In a large office or hotel, it is common to find one person from the mainainance stream dedicated to changing light bulbs! Switching to LEDs allows mainainance staff to focus on other activities.
Energy savings
The real cost savings, however, are apparent when calculating energy savings. LEDs are highly efficient light sources that release only a tiny amount of heat and have low power consumption. There are millions of GU10 halogen lamps in use within canteens, reception areas, consulting rooms, etc. The LED direct replacement for this halogen lamp is 88% more efficient giving the following cost-benefit calculation:
The cost of the 50W GU10 is £1.00
The cost of a LED replacement is £9.00
If the lamp is lit for 12 hours per day, with an electricity cost £0.12 per KWH, the cost of operation for the conventional lamp will be £20.00 per year, whereas the LED is only £2.40. Even taking the initial purchase price in to consideration, the payback period will be seven months. Remember, these are the figures for only one lamp.
Versatile
Many LED lamps can be retrofitted in five minutes and, unlike old-style bulbs, they light instantly. Businesses should look for quick wins such as areas where lamps are lit for long periods and lights are kept on for more than 5 hours a day. Good examples include corridors, stairwells and landings, reception areas, offices and warehouses, and canteens and rest rooms. Used in these areas, LED lighting can also provide a better quality of light than traditional bulbs – eliminating flickering and associated ailments such as headaches and eye strain. LED lighting also gives off negligible heat and so is safer for environments where lamps are situation close to staff.
This safety, the need of the public sector to tackle carbon emissions and reduce costs, coupled with product innovation from LED manufacturers means that re-evaluating lighting strategies is now a potentially highly valuable exercise.
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LED lighting saved £430 million worth of electricity in the US last year, according to a study by the US Department of Energy. Focusing on the most common lighting applications, the DoE estimated that 49 million LED lamps and luminaires were installed last year, saving about 71 trillion units.
©Lux Magazine, July-13
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LED at 50: An illuminating history by the light’s inventor
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Heres an interesting article on the history of LEDs by the BBC!
The light-emitting diode has brightened our lives for half a century – from lighting up the city streets at night, to decorating Christmas trees each December.
The LED started life in October 1962, as a single red illumination in a General Electric research lab in New York state.
Now – as one of the world’s biggest retailers, Ikea, announces that by 2016 the only lighting products it will sell will be LED-based ones – Prof Nick Holonyak Jr from the University of Illinois, takes a look back at how it all began with his invention of the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode.
See interesting video here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19886534
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