We often heard the concept of energy conservation, maybe some people regarded it as the task of government, but don’t think it is far away from our life, energy conservation has a close relationship with our life. Few days ago, an American institution promote a plan to install led tube light in some primary schools, this program is for the purpose of saving energy. As is well-known, LED products were devoted to ecological preservation, some the characters of LED fluorescent lights deicide its value in the energy conservation, indeed, its effect is obvious to all. Now let’s knowing about the details.
Durham, NC — Monroe Elementary School in Everett, Wash. recently installed nearly 450 LED fixtures by Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq: CREE), making it the first predominately LED-lit school in the Everett Public Schools district. Cree LR24™ LED troffers now illuminate the newly rebuilt two-story, 68,000-square-foot elementary school, which serves about 600 students in grades K-5.
“We looked at a lot of LED fixture manufacturers but only Cree had fixtures that met all of our requirements for high-quality lighting and cost savings,” said Harold Beumel, director of facilities and planning, Everett Public Schools. “Since the lights are designed for 50,000 hours of life, the Monroe Elementary School should see ongoing operational savings due to decreased energy consumption and decreased maintenance compared to linear fluorescents. Cree® LR24 luminaires provide consistent, even lighting, furthering our goal of enhancing the district’s educational program and providing a better learning environment.”
Everett Public Schools’ leadership first explored broad adoption of LED lighting after realizing all of the benefits that came from the installation of LED lights during the conversion of shop classrooms into general classrooms at Heatherwood Middle School. With those results and additional testing of LED fixtures from a variety of manufacturers, district leadership determined that Cree LR24 luminaires could bring a reduction in maintenance costs and interruptions to the students’ learning environment, since there would be no on-going need to change ballasts or lamps.
According to Beumel, Everett Public Schools continues to embrace energy-efficient LED lighting, with an all-LED school planned for completion in fall 2012. View Ridge Elementary School plans to install Cree CR24™ led tube lighting
, which provide higher-quality light, longer life and greater energy savings than comparable fluorescent options, delivering beautifully lit classrooms for years to come.
“Proper illumination is essential for academic settings,” said Al Safarikas, marketing director, Cree lighting. “Using Cree’s LED lighting solutions is a win-win for educational institutions. Not only do the students get to work under much higher quality light than the previous fluorescent fixtures, but schools can also save significantly on maintenance and energy costs, allowing administrators to invest in other academic priorities.”
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Cree is leading the LED lighting revolution and making energy-wasting traditional lighting technologies obsolete through the use of energy-efficient, mercury-free LED lighting. Cree is a market-leading innovator of lighting-class LEDs, LED lighting, and semiconductor products for power and radio-frequency (RF) applications.
Cree’s product families include LED fixtures and bulbs, blue and green LED chips, high-brightness LEDs, lighting-class power LEDs, power-switching devices and RF devices. Cree products are driving improvements in applications such as general illumination, electronic signs and signals, power supplies and solar inverters.
About significance
Provided the comfort lighting environment to the students and protected children’s eyes, as the students, which is very important to them. For the schools, the evident benefits they got is that the LED lights helped them save the cost of maintaining and changing, and an amount of power rate. On the other hand, as the pilot areas of promoting energy conservation, the schools played out their roles to lead others to the road of green society, in the future, more organizations and individuals will follow this movement.It’s really a good to news to schools of the implement of this program, we got informed from the above that high-quality light of led fluorescent lamps