Emerson Launches LED Luminaire for Hazardous Locations

EMR recently unveiled its state-of-the-art gasketed and enclosed Light Emitting Diode (LED) luminaire — Appleton Contender LED. Taking the company’s operational efficiency, employee safety and lighting performance a notch higher, luminaire will likely bring maintenance and energy savings up to 65% in difficult low clearance areas like catwalks, tunnels, walkways and stairwells. So far, High-Intensity Discharge (HID) luminaires were used as the major light source in chemical processors, oil and gas facilities, and other hazardous locations. However, at the moment, Emerson’s latest LED luminaire is viewed as a more cost-effective solution than the existing HID luminaires offered by one its major rivals. The Appleton Contender LED is highly useful for retrofit applications and is equipped with unique accessories like a safety cable, angled reflector, globe guards and visor.

Samsung expands horticultural line

Samsung has added full-spectrum white LEDs to its horticultural-lighting-targeted portfolio along with new blue, red, and far-red LEDs, and announced horticultural modules, while Luminus Devices touts CMH replacement and Seoul Semiconductor wins award for SunLike. Samsung Electronics has announced new LEDs for its horticultural lighting portfolio and new level 2 modules after only formally entering the horticultural sector at LightFair International earlier this year. Luminus Devices has announced its 4th generation (Gen 4) of chip-on-board (COB) LEDs with the new products enabling solid-state lighting (SSL) replacement of 70W ceramic metal halide (CMH) spotlights. Seoul Semiconductor and Lux have announced that the SunLike LED won a Lux Award for enabling technologies.

LED-ifying A Guitar, Part Two

An electric guitar is all about stage presence. Need to be cooler than a single guitar? No problem — there are double neck guitars. Need to be cooler than that? No problem, the guy from Cheap Trick has a five-neck guitar. Need to be cooler than that? Robbie Robertson played a guitar with an extra mandolin neck on The Last Waltz. Where do you go from there? Obviously, the solution is putting a TV in your guitar with a boatload of individually addressable LEDs in a guitar. That’s what [Englandsaurus] is doing, and the build thread is now getting into how to turn a bunch of LEDs into a display.

ECPPS eyes LED lighting project

El­iz­a­beth City-Pasquotank Public Schools of­fi­cials are con­sid­er­ing a pro­posal to covert all school fa­cil­i­ties to LED light­ing as a way to save money on en­ergy costs. Chris Nel­son and Ted Vo­gel of He­lios En­ergy at­tended a com­mit­tee meet­ing of the El­iz­a­beth City-Pasquotank Board of Ed­u­ca­tion Mon­day af­ter­noon. He­lios has pro­posed a ser­vice con­tract al­low­ing it to in­stall and main­tain LED light­ing for some 1.2 mil­lion square feet of space at ECPPS fa­cil­i­ties. Ac­cord­ing to its pro­posal, He­lios would cover the up­front costs of in­stalling the LED light­ing and then con­tract for main­tain­ing the light­ing over a des­ig­nated pe­riod — likely seven years. LED, or light-emit­ting diode, lights gen­er­ate as much as twice the amount of light for the same amount of en­ergy.

A smart plug with all the fixin’s

If flexibility is what you’re looking for in a smart plug, Lutron’s Caseta Wireless Smart Lighting Lamp Dimmer kit is worth serious consideration. Whether you simply want to add a dimmer to an existing outlet or wish to integrate the system with a more complex smart home setup, Lutron has you covered. Lutron’s kit is unique in that it includes a variety of components that don’t all necessarily have to be used. In the box you’ll find two plug-in dimmer boxes, each with controls built into the face. Four buttons—on, off, dim, and brighten—fill the face of the switch.

Can smart lighting technology be one-size-fits-all?

With the Internet of Things (IoT) converging into our market over the past several years, we have heard a lot of discussion in the lighting industry about IoT connectivity technologies. There are many options for hardware, software, and network configuration, and we have noted that opinions sway in various directions as to what is the best course for smart lighting systems. Despite the fact that some industry insiders insist that Bluetooth Mesh will become a mainstay for smart building systems, the question remains: Will there be one protocol to rule them all?

Connected LED lighting gives Shanghai’s skyline an eco-friendly facelift

Signify, the world leader in lighting, formerly Philips Lighting, has given a dramatic lighting facelift to Shanghai, China’s financial and economic center.

The project has been implemented for the Shanghai Municipality and involves dynamically lighting the iconic waterfront, three bridges and over 40 buildings in the financial and tourist districts. It is the largest, single, architectural lighting project in Signify’s 127-year history and illustrates the company’s leadership in unlocking the potential of connected lighting to transform cities.

“The upgraded lighting system helps demonstrate Shanghai’s cultural heritage in a more vivid way, creating impressive night scenes in an energy efficient way,” said John Wang, President of Greater China, SVP, Signify. “It is an honor for us to illuminate Shanghai’s landscape with our connected lighting which can give municipalities control and real-time information on the performance of individual light points. In the future, this information could be input into smart city dashboards to give planners a 360-degree view of their smart city assets as China transforms its cities to be more efficient and livable.”

Seoul Semiconductor’s SunLike Series Natural Spectrum LEDs Recognized as Innovative Technology Worldwide

Seoul Semiconductor announced that SunLike series natural spectrum LEDs have been recognized as innovative technology for human-centric lighting at global lighting awards held in Europe, China and US.

In Europe, SunLike Series natural spectrum LEDs won Enabling Technology of the Year at Lux Award 2018 held in London on November 15. Since 2010, the Lux Awards has been recognized as one of the most prestigious honors for lighting component manufacturers.

SunLike Series natural spectrum LEDs were co-developed through the combination of Seoul Semiconductor’s optical semiconductor technology and Toshiba Materials’ TRI-R technology. TRI-R technology, supported by Toshiba Materials, defines its original concept as “the light closest to the sun for human wellbeing.

New Polaroid RGB LED camera offers portable LED light system

The new Polaroid RGB LED camera and camcorder light offers photographers and videographers a professional, portable LED light system with powerful output for 99.00 USD. With a wide array of settings to create different moods, atmospheres, color backgrounds and special lighting effects, the easy-to-use light allows photographers to control and fine-tune the light source focus to capture the perfect shot every time. The free companion app allows users to fully control all aspects of the light, including color, brightness and saturation, for a fast and efficient workflow.

Energy-saving LED holiday lighting a bargain over time

Xcel Energy is offering tips on saving money and, above all, staying safe as area residents turn their attention to stringing holiday lights for the festivities to come in December. Strings of LED lights still cost more to purchase than strings of traditional incandescent lights, but because LED lights use a fraction of the energy traditional holiday lights use, they have a minimal impact on a monthly electric bill, Ronnie Walker, Xcel Energy regional manager for Community Relations in Amarillo, said.

Light up your home with these Lifx smart bulbs

Amazon has a sale on several Lifx smart bulbs, Lifx smart bulbs can be controlled from an app that's available on several platforms, including iOS, Android, and Windows 10. You'll be able to access them anywhere, set schedules, change colors, and more. They also work with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple HomeKit without the need for a hub, which makes them simpler to use than other smart home devices. The Lifx Mini A19 multi-color Smart LED light bulb is down to $29.99 with this sale. That's the least expensive option here, and this bulb normally sells for $45. The bulb is easy to set up, adjustable, dimmable, has access to more than 16 million colors, and is the equivalent of a 60W incandescent bulb.

30th Anniversary Zoolights comes to life in more than 700,000 brilliant LEDs

30 years and Zoolights – with more than 700,000 brilliantly colorful, energy-efficient LEDs – is the Puget Sound region’s longest-running, best-loved holiday lights extravaganza. Zoolights begins Nov. 23 (the day after Thanksgiving) and runs from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. nightly, with a one-night closure on Dec. 24. There are majestic polar bears and walruses on ice floes; sledding penguins; ice-skating puffins; a 100-foot-wide octopus; a 3-D sea turtle; a howling red wolf; a carnivorous plant; and nursery rhyme figures like Humpty-Dumpty and the Cheshire Cat. Made-to-scale replicas of Mount Rainier and the twin Tacoma Narrows bridges (complete with traffic) tower over the landscape. And even Sasquatch will pop up on the zoo grounds.

City's LED upgrade provides music

As many patriotic residents noted, the recent Veterans Day parade through downtown St. Cloud not only introduced people to a new route with new vantage points, it also included new sounds. Thanks to the city's recently upgraded LED lighting system, patriotic music added a distinctly American audio ambiance along much of the route. The system resulted from a $7 million street light improvement project, which the city began installing in 2016. The LED lights are expected to save about $600,000 a year, meaning the cost of the project should be paid back in 12 years, city officials said when the upgrade began.

Efficiency breakthrough for radical LEDs

Light-emitting devices made from organic materials have the potential to be thin, flexible and lightweight, and might therefore be used in a variety of applications — including foldable display screens, ‘smart’ wallpaper incorporating digital devices, and windows that could be converted into illuminated panels at the flick of a switch. The efficiencies of other types of OLED are generally limited by quantum-mechanical effects, but radical-based OLEDs (ROLEDs) don’t have this constraint, owing to the electronic state of the radicals. The authors’ ROLEDs have the highest emission efficiency obtained so far among LEDs that emit light in the deep-red and infrared regions of the electro-magnetic spectrum.

Augusta buying into LED technology for savings

Augusta officials are planning to take control of their streetlights. They plan to buy the nearly 2,000 streetlights from Central Maine Power and convert them to more efficient LED lights. The move could save the city $168,000 to $300,000 a year. Augusta, like many Maine municipalities, currently leases the lights along its city streets from CMP.

You’d never guess these gorgeous lamps are made from bioplastic

High-end lamps with thin elegant forms are made of metal. But a new lighting series from the London-based design studio Industrial Facility is composed of a bioplastic derived from castor oil. The lamp, called Pastille, is simple by design: just a hand-sized circle suspended from a single post. Even its insides contain only the bare essentials, with a single LED hidden inside the round disk. A mirror and plastic diffuser help that single LED do the work of a full array, while making the lamp more energy efficient.

Thwarting LED cost erosion, high-value automotive sector is driving revenue growth

According to market research firm Yole Développement, lighting is becoming the new photonic hub, with the ‘LEDification’ of vehicles set to propel automotive lighting revenues to $37.3B by 2023. With the integration of light emitting diode (LED) technology, lighting has evolved from a basic, functional feature to a distinctive feature with high-value potential in automotive. Indeed, LED technology has given manufacturers the opportunity for strong differentiation via lighting design and additional functionalities. This is particularly true for exterior lighting. The integration of new solid state lighting (SSL) technologies is transforming automotive front lighting and rear combination lighting (RCL) systems and their applications, offering more design flexibility, increased efficacy, and intelligent functionalities.

Chinese schoolchildren burned by UV lamp

Dozens of Chinese schoolchildren have been hospitalized after being accidentally poisoned in the classroom by a UV light. Again. Authorities in the city of Tianjin say 44 first-graders were exposed to up to nine hours of UV after school staff forgot to turn off a disinfection lamp in their classroom, leaving most of the students with damage to their eyes and face and some with serious burns.

Amazon has a multicolor smart LED bulb for $17 that’s just as good as Philips Hue’s $50 bulb

If you’re already heavily invested in the Philips Hue ecosystem, you shouldn’t feel bad about it. Philips Hue smart lighting solutions are awesome, after all. But if you’re just starting out and you’re looking for smart lights that aren’t $50 a bulb, you should definitely check out the MagicLight A19 WiFi Smart Light Bulb. You can control these great multicolor LED bulbs from the app or using a voice assistant like Alexa or Google Assistant, and they only cost $17 each!

Larson Electronics Releases 120W Rechargeable Wall Mount Dual LED Lamp

Larson Electronics, leader in industrial lighting, has released a rechargeable wall mounted, LED work light system which consists of two lamps and produces a total of 10,800 lumens. This 120-watt LED light features a 1,500Wh capacity rechargeable battery pack, making it ideal for use in rugged industrial work environments where elevated high-output work light is needed.

The WAL-RPS-WLM-2XWP60E-1.5K-120V from Larson Electronics is a 120-watt wall mounted rechargeable LED work light that includes two LED lamps that offer 5,400 lumens of bright light each. These LED lamps produce a wide flood beam with a 60-degree vertical spread and a 75-degree horizontal spread. The two lamps consist of six LEDs each, housed within an IP68 waterproof aluminum housing that is powder coated for added durability and resistance to corrosion. Each lamp has an unbreakable polycarbonate lens secured with a waterproof seal and a waterproof connection, giving this set up ETL approval for wet locations.

A rechargeable li-ion battery with 1,500Wh capacity powers the two lights. The battery pack includes a 2 foot removeable input cord with a 5-15P cord cap for recharging. This battery pack has a convenient pop up handle for seamless carrying and a green indicator to display the pack’s charging status. The battery’s standard output power is 500W with a peak output reaching 700W. This unit can be charged using solar panels or standard AC power from a mainstream 120V outlet.

What you need to know about LED lamps

LED lamps can offer 50,000 hours of use if they are engineered correctly according to Futronix.com. You may have seen LED lamps referred to as ‘Solid State Lighting’. This is because they are manufactured from solid materials. Another key benefit of using LED lamps is that they light instantaneously, so you don’t need to wait for a warm-up period to elapse. They can output up to 135 lumens per watt and aren’t affected by cold temperatures. You can also move the bulbs to direct light where you want it. One thing you really do need to be aware of is the fact that not all LED lamps can be dimmed. You must check that the lamp is actually dimmable before you make a purchase, so look at the packaging before you proceed. Even if the packaging does state that a lamp is dimmable, this doesn’t always mean that the performance will be fantastic.

Light bulb fix could cost millions

Alarm bells are ringing as corroded stadium lights at an international sporting venue force council to consider a complete rebuild. The stadium lights at Hamilton's Seddon Park cricket ground are due a major refurbishment with, $2m budgeted, but a recent inspection found multiple issues and the cost could blow out to between $4.5m and $4.7m.

Cambridge cashes in on LED streetlight conversion

The City of Cambridge was presented with a cheque for over $326,000 from Energy+ Inc. on Monday for converting over 6,700 streetlights to energy efficient and cost saving Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology. The incentive was made available through the Save On Energy Retrofit program. "The new LED streetlights are expected to contribute over 3,779,336 kilowatt hours in energy savings annually, or the equivalent of taking 420 homes off the grid for an entire year!" Energy+’s President and CEO, Ian Miles, said in a release.

LED lighting could result in more indoor farms cropping up

Mike Zelkind stands at one end of what was once a shipping container and opens the door to the future. Thousands of young collard greens are growing vigorously under a glow of pink-purple lamps in a scene that seems to have come from a sci-fi movie, or at least a NASA experiment. But Zelkind is at the helm of an earthbound enterprise. He is chief executive of 80 Acres Farms, with a plant factory in an uptown Cincinnati neighborhood where warehouses sit cheek by jowl with detached houses.

Zelkind is part of a radical shift in agriculture — decades in the making — in which plants can be grown commercially without a single sunbeam. A number of technological advances have made this possible, but none more so than innovations in LED lighting.

This LED faucet light changes color based on water temperature

Sometimes the simplest little gadgets can be so cool, and that’s exactly the case with the DLAND RC-F03 Colorful LED Water Faucet Attachment. This little device screws into any standard tap in your sink and water flows through it normally. But here’s the cool part: it has different color LEDs inside that automatically turn on when water flows through it! Red means hot, blue means cold, and green means just right.

Philips Hue Signe Floor Lamp

Sometimes, when a child misbehaves, their parent will make them stand and face the corner in a time-out. That's sort of what it was like testing out the new Philips Hue Signe floor lamp. Available as a 24-inch table lamp for $160 (about £125, or AU$220), or a 58-inch floor lamp for $250 (about £195, or AU$345), the new fixtures are basically vertical wands of light designed to spread color across your walls. And, in fairness, both Signe fixtures behaved perfectly well as I tested them out -- but I also didn't really know what the heck I was supposed to do with the things.

LED Replacement Lamp and Lighting Controls from Current by GE

Current, powered by GE, recently unveiled a new LED replacement lamp designed to replace 1000W high intensity discharge (HID) lamps. In addition to using 60% less energy, the product fits existing HID lamp fixtures and is wired to bypass the ballast, eliminating the need for future ballast replacements. According to Current, a product like the 1000W LED replacement has the potential to slash lighting electricity consumption, save millions of dollars and remove hazardous materials nationwide.

New lighting funded for Fayette County sports fields

Three soccer fields in Fayetteville’s McCurry Park and a baseball field in Kiwanis Park will be provided with new lighting following funding approval from Fayette County’s Board of Commissioners. The $394,534 bid was awarded on Oct. 25 to West Georgia Lighting, Inc., for fields 1, 5 and 6 at McCurry. The board also approved transferring $40,000 from the Kiwanis Park capital improvement budget to the McCurry Park budget to fully fund the project. The county’s parks and recreation department began refurbishing lighting at all parks starting in 2003, and has made upgrades at 23 fields since 2004 based on a study that determined project priorities.

Eiffel Tower at Paris Las Vegas approved for new lights

A new animated light system was approved by the Clark County Commission to be added to the Eiffel Tower at Paris Las Vegas. The plan calls for over 322,000 square feet of lighting to the 640-foot replica.

Temporary LEDs installed to demonstrate concept for Light the Hoan Bridge initiative

Milwaukee residents got a glimpse for three nights of what the Daniel Hoan Memorial Bridge would look like illuminated, when Light the Hoan temporarily installed connected LED lighting on November 1. In collaboration with Signify, a world leader in lighting, representatives from the organization have been visiting Milwaukee since late October. Their engineers have spent a significant number of hours installing a partial panel of dynamic LED lights on the city-facing, north end of the bridge. The display could be seen lighting up each of the nights demonstrating the extraordinary capabilities of the technology, from an expanded palette of more than a billion saturated colors to stunning dynamic effects that can be programmed to commemorate special events, holidays, and important civic causes (photo Sulfur)

Concord upgrades lighting throughout campus

Concord University held a ribbon cutting on Friday to celebrate the completion of an innovative project. Helios Energy out of Nashville has been working to get the whole campus on LED Energy Lighting. This was implemented to eliminate 20,000 linear fluorescent and 47,000 CFL lamps.The goal was to reduce consumption for lighting by 65 percent annually, and eliminate the cost of replacing fluorescent lamps and ballast. Those lamps contain harmful elements, like Mercury and PCB's, that are bad for the environment.

Global Tubular LEDs to Grow Above 7% Annually Through 2027

Navigant found that the TLED market is experiencing substantial growth thanks to declining prices, a desire to decrease energy consumption, and building codes and standards that require more efficient lighting solutions. “Price declines and utility incentives have made the initial cost of TLEDs more comparable to that of fluorescent tubes while the above-mentioned benefits have helped justify the higher price point,” says Krystal Maxwell,

New efficiency record set for perovskite LEDs

Researchers have set a new efficiency record for LEDs based on perovskite semiconductors, rivalling that of the best organic LEDs (OLEDs). Compared to OLEDs, which are widely used in high-end consumer electronics, the perovskite-based LEDs, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, can be made at much lower costs, and can be tuned to emit light across the visible and near-infrared spectra with high colour purity.

Winners of Micro LED Technology Research Contest Unveiled.

The TaoTronics TT-DL031 LED Desk Lamp with Built-in Wireless Charger isn’t just an awesome looking desk lamp with a sleek modern design. It’s also doesn’t just have adjustable LED lighting and touch controls on the base. This awesome lamp is both of those things, but it’s also a wireless charger that works with any iPhone or Android handset! If you want to clear the clutter from your desk and replace it with a single sleek device, use the coupon code VWAJX5T7 at checkout and you can snag one for just $28.99.

City breaks world record with 300,000 oil lamps for Diwali

The northern Indian city of Ayodhya broke a Guinness World Record by lighting more than 300,000 clay oil lamps on the eve of the Hindu festival Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights. Participants light earthen oil lamps on the banks of the Sarayu river in an attempt to enter the Guinness World Records for the largest display of oil lamps on the eve of Diwali. The 301,152 lamps were lit simultaneously for five minutes on the banks of the Sarayu River, which runs through the holy city of Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, beating a 2016 record held in a neighboring state.

Harlingen uses new lighting to reduce auto-pedestrian accidents

Drivers and pedestrians going down some of Harlingen’s busiest roads, will soon see them better lit at night and will cost the city less. The city of Harlingen says that they were approached by American Electric Power (AEP), the local electricity provider. AEP has offered the city the opportunity to change out nearly 400 old bulbs on city light posts with new LED bulbs for a reduced cost of nearly $25,000. AEP will be helping with the installation. The electric utility provider wants to compare how much the old bulbs consume versus the LED lights.

Upgrading the headlights on any car to LEDs has never been cheaper

Amazon ran a one-day deal last week on LED headlight upgrade kits for all cars, and it was one of the most popular deals we covered in all of October. These kits make it easy to upgrade the old halogen headlamps on any car out there to nice bright LED headlights like the ones you might find on a high-priced luxury car. Well if you missed that deal you’re in luck because it’s back! Today, for one day only, Amazon has dropped the prices of the wildly popular Sealight LED Headlight Bulbs Conversion Kit in all sizes to between $23.99 and $29.99 depending on which size you need.

Lutron opens New York lighting center and showroom

The Pennsylvania-based Lutron Electronics has opened a new showroom in the D&D Building on Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. The lighting and shading company, long known for their commitment to good design and the latest technology, now has a space where designers can experience the company’s products. It is possible to test their entire line, including the technologically advanced Ketra line and what they call “human-centric lighting.”

Machine learning algorithm finds the best LED phosphor in list of 100,000 compounds

A machine learning algorithm that can swiftly identify the most desirable LED phosphor host compound out of a database of almost 120,000 materials has been developed by researchers in the US. Efficient enough to run on a PC, the program was created by Jakoah Brgoch and colleagues at the University of Houston and has predicted the relevant properties of a highly efficient, thermally stable compound in well under a minute. The team’s algorithm could soon be used to speed up the discovery of new materials for use in commercially competitive LEDs. Typically, LEDs are composed of an inorganic, luminescent “phosphor” material, doped with small quantities of rare earth elements. The interactions between phosphor hosts and the rare earth dopants are a strong indication of an LED’s performance.

Eaton, Dolphins Unveil Ephesus LED Sports Lighting System At Paladin Stadium

Representatives from the Miami Dolphins, power management company Eaton, the Broward County School District and South Plantation High School, officially flipped the switch on Saturday night, turning on the new state-of-the-art Ephesus LED sports lighting and control system awarded to South Plantation High School’s Paladin Stadium as winners of the community programming initiative – “Light Like the Pros.” The capabilities of the system were demonstrated for the crowd during a half-time ceremony of the South Plantation versus Plantation annual rivalry game on October 27, featuring Twan Russell of the Miami Dolphins, Laurie Green representing Ephesus Lighting and NGU Sports Lighting and Christine Henschel from South Plantation H.S. After sending the stadium into complete darkness, with the push of a button, fans were treated to an electrifying light show more familiar to the fans at Hard Rock Stadium than a high school football venue.

History of White LEDs

Compared to incandescent lightbulbs, LEDs produce a lot more lumens per watt of input power — they’re more efficient at producing light.  Of course, that means that incandescent light bulbs are more efficient at producing heat, and as the days get shorter, and the nights get colder, somewhere, someone who took the leap to LED lighting has a furnace that’s working overtime. And that someone might also wonder how we got here: a world lit by esoteric inorganic semiconductors illuminating phosphors. The fact that diodes emit light under certain conditions has been known for over 100 years; the first light-emitting diode was discovered at Marconi Labs in 1907 in a cat’s whisker detector, the first kind of diode. This discovery was simply a scientific curiosity until another discovery at Texas Instruments revealed infrared light emissions from a tunnel diode constructed from a gallium arsenide substrate.

Invisible LEDs light up Beijing landmark

Signify, formerly Philips Lighting, has installed architectural lighting into the façade of one of Beijing’s tallest buildings, illustrating the growing trend in China to make cities more attractive and liveable using the latest in connected lighting. China World Trade Centre’s (CWTC) Tower B is a new hub for commerce and tourism in Beijing’s central business district. The 300m tall building is the latest addition to the CWTC, a growing mixed-use campus and home to some of China’s leading companies.

An LED 'Filament' Bulb: Not a Contradiction

For those who miss the appearance and glow of a filament-based bulb, this LED bulb technology may offer the best of both worlds. It’s not news that the venerable incandescent-based bulb with its glowing filament is on the way out. Due to technical advances, regulatory mandates, and substantial cost savings, compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and especially LEDs are taking over the lighting world in residential, commercial, and industrial settings. Still, there are many who long for the glow of that filament. Reasons vary: For some, it is nostalgia for their youth; for others, it’s the hip, retro factor; and for others, there’s something almost primal about that glow, reminiscent of elemental fire (the glowing filament is certainly analogous to that).

100-year-old ‘lamp company’ in Old City turns off lights one last time

After sitting at the same oak rolltop desk as his father and grandfather and running the same specialty hardware distributor of lighting products that has been in the family for more than a century, Newton Gold knew the business landscape had changed. Many of his customers, mostly hardware retailers, have shuttered their stores and Gold, 88, said he didn't want to hustle to find new ones. He saw his children pursuing different careers. Even a former customer talked of how the economy had changed to rely more on mass merchants than local business owners.

Some Washington County cities running into snags as streetlights switch to LEDs

Many communities across Washington County are making the switch to LED lights from the traditional high-pressure sodium lights that have lined roadways for decades. While some communities are experiencing growing pains involved in changing to the more energy-efficient, brighter LED lights, the color and cost of making the switch aren’t enough to stop cities like St. George, Ivins and Springdale from moving forward with plans to replace every streetlight with LEDs. The city of St. George has already replaced a “significant amount” of streetlights in the city with LED bulbs over the past three years with no signs of slowing down until all the streetlights in the city are LEDs, said Rene Fleming, manager of energy and water customer services for St. George.