National Academy of Sciences reports on the state of LED and OLED lighting

The US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) has issued its second report on LED- and OLED-based lighting entitled “Assessment of Solid-State Lighting, Phase Two.” The report projects that adoption of solid-state lighting (SSL) can deliver a 40% reduction in the amount of energy used for lighting by 2030. Moreover, the report suggests that the US Department of Energy (DOE) SSL program has been a key element in a faster-than-originally-predicted transition to LEDs and further suggests that the R&D funding by the agency should continue. NAS issued its first report of SSL back in 2013. The reports are intended to inform the US Congress of progress in SSL and are required under the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007.