. The LED street lighting solution from GE Lighting Solutions, a unit of GE Lighting, was awarded the best-in-class product award at the 2010 Next Generation Luminaires™ (NGL) competition, organized by the U.S. Department of Energy.This is the second consecutive version of the event in which a GE product is recognized with this distinction.
But not only the GE Evolve™ R150 LED Cobrahead street luminaire was awarded, four other LED lighting systems for refrigerated display, architectural and outdoor applications received awards at NGL.
David Elien, president and CEO of GE Lighting Solutions, said these awards are a recognition of the value that products offer in terms of innovation, quality and understanding of customer needs.
The GE Evolve™ R150 LED Cobrahead has an LED optical system that provides horizontal and vertical uniformity, less glare and better lighting control. It offers between a 15 and 30% reduction in the total energy consumption of the system, and a useful life of more than ten years (50 thousand hours).
In the NGL 2010, 126 products from 60 companies were evaluated.
