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HUIZHOU, China, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics, Inc. ("China Intelligent" or "the Company") (NYSE Amex: CIL), a leading provider of lighting solutions that engages in the design, manufacture, sales and marketing of high-quality LED and other lighting products, today announced that it was recently named among the 2010 100 LED Lighting Applications Enterprises in China at the China Building Decoration and Lighting Designer Union Annual...

PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., Feb. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With a strong commitment to finding innovative ways to increase efficiency and provide savings for the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA), engineers selected Cooper Lighting, a division of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), for a large-scale upgrade of 972 of the Islands' street lights. In developing the project plan, the Virgin Islands WAPA engineers hoped to achieve a model for energy savings for the Authority as well as for...

SALEM, Mass., Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Officials from lighting manufacturer OSRAM SYLVANIA and the City of Salem, Massachusetts flipped the switch on over 350 existing street lighting fixtures newly equipped with LED technology. Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll hosted an unveiling event in the city's historic downtown area where, using an over-sized light switch, she and Mark Corcoran, OSRAM SYLVANIA vice president of Industrial Commercial Sales, symbolically lit the city with the new,...

Brightly-lit Cowboys Stadium during Sunday's Super Bowl XLV may symbolize one of the hottest new pieces of scientific intelligence about air pollution: Researchers have discovered "” in a classic case of scientific serendipity "” that the bright light from sports stadiums and urban street lights may boost daytime levels of ozone, a key air pollutant in many heavily populated areas. That's among the topics included in a broader article about the chemistry of air pollution in the current...

HUIZHOU, China, Jan. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Intelligent Lighting and Electronics, Inc. ("China Intelligent" or "the Company") (NYSE Amex: CIL), a leading provider of lighting solutions that engages in the design, manufacture, sales and marketing of high-quality LED and other lighting products, today announced that it has leased a new facility in Huizhou, China, which opened on Tuesday, January 18, 2011. The facility is approximately 215,000 square feet in size, and...

MERRILLVILLE, Ind., Jan. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Reporting a non-working streetlight just became easier, thanks to a new online tool launched by Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO). Customers noticing a streetlight that is broken or burned out can conveniently visit www.NIPSCO.com/StreetlightOut and submit a request to have it fixed. An interactive map identifies all of the streetlights owned or maintained by NIPSCO. So, if a customer does not have the exact pole number,...

GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on vehicular lighting markets. Although the prolonged severity of the economic slowdown and depressed automotive industry have elicited decline in volume sales of vehicular lights, the market is nevertheless expected to recover poise in the medium-to-long term period to register 5.1 billion units by 2015. Growth in the market will be driven by increase in automobile production, as a result of post recession resurgence in consumer...

SATELLITE BEACH, Fla., Dec. 23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Lighting Science Group's (OTC Bulletin Board: LSCG) high-performance PROLIFIC series LED street lights will soon line the streets of Washington, D.C. Compared with traditional high pressure sodium (HPS) street lights, the PROLIFIC LED series street lights are 50% more efficient, provide more uniform light distribution, increase light levels, and will save Washington, D.C. tens of thousands of dollars each year in energy and maintenance...

SARASOTA, Fla., Dec. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- EvoLucia, Inc., the LED lighting subsidiary of Sunovia Energy (OTC Bulletin Board: SUNV), announced today that the city of Corunna, Michigan has retrofitted a number of downtown 175W metal halide streetlights with 48W EvoLucia LEDs. The city installed the EvoLucia PTR Retrofit Kit, a "plug-and-play" LED retrofit product that allows for simple, one-for-one direct replacement using existing poles. The Department of Public Works simply removed the...

Cities and Municipalities around the country are evaluating energy efficient, high illuminance street and area lighting to reduce energy consumption, reduce carbon footprints, reduce maintenance costs, improve visibility, and improve public safety. The City of Olathe has purchased Worldwide Energy, Inc.'s LEP-Light Emitting Plasma fixtures to use in their analysis of energy efficient options. Olathe, KS (PRWEB) November 1, 2010 Cities and Municipalities around the country are...