Outdoor Lighting: GE LEDs light Gulangyu Island, global project updates

Gulangyu Island in China's Xiamen district hopes to reduce energy usage by 40% with LED lighting from GE Lighting. Leicester in the UK is expecting even bigger savings with a networked-based solid-state lighting (SSL) installation, and Melbourne, FL and Long Beach, CA have begun interesting pilot projects. GE supplied 584 LED Iberia fixtures for the Gulangyu Island project. The 90W SSL products were used to replace 150W high-pressure sodium (HPS) fixtures that had been installed only eight years ago. The Iberia luminaires deliver efficacy of 90 lm/W whereas the HPS fixtures delivered 50 lm/W.