Orb Energy Pte Ltd, which provides solar energy systems
Ajouté le 23/6/2011
Orb
Energy Pte Ltd, which provides solar energy systems to off-grid households, has
raised $1.1 million in equity funding from non-profit venture firm Acumen Fund.
The funding will be used by Orb to extend its household lighting systems to
rural customers and scale its manufacturing, besides developing new products.
Existing investors in Orb Energy include London-based Zouk Ventures
(which manages $100 million across two venture funds) and the Singh family, who
founded UK-based retailer New Look (and took it private with Apax and Permira in
a $1 billion deal in 2004).
Orb sells, installs and services a full
range of systems including solar photovoltaic systems for lighting and back-up
power, solar thermal for hot water, solar street lighting for security, as well
as energy-efficient lights, fans and other appliances. Over the last four years,
Orb has installed approximately 25,000 solar systems. It currently operates 90
branches across four states – Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Maharashtra.
The company directly markets its products and employs more than 500 people for
solar equipment sales, installation and service.Compact fluorescent light bulbs
convert a led tube considerably higher
percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more
energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs.
With this new round of
funding, Orb plans to double the number of branches and employees over the next
two years. The Bangalore and Singapore-based firm will also expand the capacity
of monthly sales and installations from 1,000 to 2,000 systems.In the case of
Cree a significant led light bulbs
amount of their LED sales come from the purchase of Cotco whose primary focus
was on moving message panels used in displays/electronic bill boards.
India’s rural Base of the Pyramid (BoP) population includes 114 million
households, 45 per cent of which do not have reliable access to electricity and
rely on kerosene for lighting.
Several companies are trying to tap this
demand. There is d.light, backed by the likes of Omidyar Network and Mahindra
group, which provides affordable energy and lighting solutions based on solar
and LED technology.
Then, there are other players like Patna-based Husk
Power Systems that converts rice husk into electricity by using biomass
gasification technology and has mini power plants located across off-grid
areas.While using compact fluorescent light bulbs energy saving light helps conserve energy,
it is important that the bulbs are collected and recycled properly to protect
our environment
Acumen India, which has invested over $22 million in the
country since 2001, has backed companies like Kochi-based ayurvedic chain Ayur
Vaid Hospitals, Hyderabad-based LifeSpring Hospitals, Mumbai-based ambulance
start-up service Dial 1298 For Ambulance and Drishtee, a rural communications
company.
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MusicLites Looks To Save Space By Combining LED Lights And Audio Into One
Ajouté le 23/6/2011
MusicLites
Looks To Save Space By Combining LED Lights And Audio Into One
Looking for a
way to pipe music through your entire house but don’t have enough space or you
don’t know where to begin? Perhaps Artison and Osram Slyvania will be able to
help you with that, with their MusicLites product which combines high fidelity
audio and LEDs into one simple and elegant solution. The companies behind the
product are Artison,In the case of Cree a significant led light bulbs amount of their LED
sales come from the purchase of Cotco whose primary focus was on moving message
panels used in displays/electronic bill boards. who is a high-end quality audio
technology firm while Osram Sylvania is North America’s number one lightning
company and together they have created the MusicLites which was debuted
today.Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage
of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy
efficient than traditional filament bulbs. The idea behind MusicLites was for a
way for consumers who wanted a robust audio system but did not want to deal with
all the power plugs and speaker wires.
How it works is that the light
socket powers both the speakers and the light with the speakers communicating
through a proprietary 2.4GHz wireless transmitter and receiver system which can
be connected to basically any audio source such as stereos, televisions,
computers, iPods, iPads, etc, so basically connecting it to your television
could mean that the sound could essentially be broadcast to any room in your
house that has MusicLites installed. A pretty neat and elegant solution which
not only saves space but hides speakers from view, giving guests to your home
the illusion that sound is coming from everywhere without them knowing that it’s
actually coming from the ceiling.
.Kendall County has received some green
for being green.
Tom Pence of the Illinois Clean Energy Foundation
presented the county with $96,960 for installing LED lights in the county office
building, the public safety center, the historic courthouse and the facilities
management-coroner’s offices.
The grant paid for most of the cost of
changing over the lights, and county officials found another grant to pick up
the difference.
Pence said the lighting will cut the county’s energy
usage by 80 percent,While using compact fluorescent light bulbs energy saving light helps conserve energy,
it is important that the bulbs are collected and recycled properly to protect
our environment or put another way, the equivalent of enough energy for 54
homes.
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Energy-Saving Technology to The City of Sarasota
Ajouté le 24/5/2011
Energy-Saving
Technology to The City of Sarasota
The City of Sarasota chose Sunovia Energy
Technologies' (OTC BB: SUNV) award-winning LED energy-efficient lights to reduce
their energy consumption and enhance the downtown and tourist areas for its
city-wide energy saving project. The project replaces approximately 200
traditional streetlights and landscape lights with the Aimed Optics? LED
fixtures produced by Sunovia's lighting division EvoLucia Inc.
By
implementing Sunovia's energy-saving LED lighting technology the City will not
only have the best return on their investment but also significantly reduce
their overall energy consumption.
According to Siemens Building
Technologies, an energy service provider (ESCO), LED systems are quickly
becoming the light source of choice for ESCO projects due to their ruggedness,
reliability, long life, energy efficiency and low maintenance requirements.These
were some reasons why people are keen to use these lights, hope that they will
be used brightstal in a
similar way in future as well. The EvoLucia lights were chosen because they were
determined by the City of Sarasota and Siemens to be superior to other fixtures
on the market for energy savings and effectiveness in lighting. Recently this
year, the Department of Energy awarded Sunovia's EvoLucia SCHX5 cobra head
fixture as the Best Outdoor Fixture in its category.
Gary Kreisler, of
Siemens stated, "We've chosen to collaborate with EvoLucia and utilize their
award-winning LED technology for our energy-saving project because of their
ongoing commitment to LED innovation and product excellence." Kreisler added,
"Having EvoLucia Aimed LED Lighting? as part of this project will ensure that we
provide the city of Sarasota with the utmost level of LED quality, durability
and performance while saving the maximum energy and enhancing the ambiance of
Sarasota."
Former Sarasota Mayor Kelly Kirschner stated, "For the past
four years, the City of Sarasota has conscientiously implemented a local
procurement policy throughout our organization to ensure we do everything we can
to keep tax dollars in our local community by partnering with area firms. It's
exciting to see such forward-thinking companies, like Sunovia, not only be
located in our area but also producing such quality, 'green' products that will
produce significant savings for Sarasota taxpayers over their lifecycle."
The City of Sarasota project is just one of many that Sarasota County is
establishing in order to reduce costs and meet their "green" initiative goals.
Sunovia's EvoLucia LED lights will help the city reduce their lighting energy
consumption by over 60 percent. The project installation is expected to begin
this month along the Ringling Bridge Causeway and St. Armand's Circle.
About Sunovia Energy Technologies,You can easily say that it is a
passion or a way to express yourself. So what's the story? Ok you buy yourself
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to pick among a huge collection of automotive accessories something to make
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About EvoLucia and Aimed LEDs?
Sunovia's
LED lighting division, EvoLucia, Inc.These were some reasons why people are keen
to use these lights, hope that they will be used brightstal in a similar way in future as
well. (www.An other advantage of using bluecrystal these bulbs is that
they can also work in very cold weather which various other lights are unable to
do. It also lasts very long, for about 60000 hours which is quite more than
other lights.evolucialighting.com), offers highly efficient, durable,
commercial-grade LED lighting for outdoor applications,This is also known as
your return on investment ledbright or ROI. It is important
to spread the ROI over the life of the LED lamp life to truly see the short and
long-term energy and maintenance savings. including parking garages, streets and
highways, parking lots, landscaping and more. The Aimed LED? lights employ
EvoLucia's proprietary, patent-pending Aimed Optics? technology, which
strategically directs light to the target area and provides better illumination
for less electricity.
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