LED news and articles from Solas

To cut their energy usage by 85,000kWh The Best Western Kings Manor Hotel in Edinburgh has replaced their halogen lighting with LED. This energy accounts for almost 10% of their total energy use.
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Reduce costs and your carbon footprint using energy efficent, low carbon LED lighting in your business.
Simple tips to reducing your carbon footprint and so saving money on your lighting:

* Reduce quantity & ouput of lights used.
In Britain we have a habit of feeling that whole rooms need to be fully lit. We have traditionally used a pendant light fitting or chandelier in the centre of the room with one or more bulbs to give light everywhere. (more…)

The Metro reports that LED light bulbs could sell at £2/ea. within 2-5 years.
Professors at Cambridge University have discovered a way of producing Gallium Nitride - an important part of LED manufacture - on Silicon rather than the traditional, costly Sapphire.
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Solas provided a complete LED based lighting solution for the Historic Scotland exhibition of Pictish Stonework at the historic village of St. Vigeans.
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Solas is called in by Studio MB - designers for Dynamic Earth - to help save the ‘new’ lighting to the permanent Ice Berg at this Edinburgh attraction.
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“The lighting made all the difference to make our simple stand, stand out in the crowds.”
Solas was contacted by Designate to help make their client’s stall stand out at the Scottish Golf Show with little budget and little time.
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