“For one of the largest lighting retrofits in Naval history, we chose Lighting Science Group products based on performance, thermal management, quality components, cost and aesthetics,” said Tom Santoianni, Energy Manager for Naval Base Ventura County. “These lighting solutions deliver the best light distribution, excellent color, optimum performance, and are ultra-efficient in meeting our energy, environmental and design needs.”

“The Lighting Science LED lighting solutions provided to NBVC will improve both the environment and the bottom line by delivering to the U.S. Navy and the American taxpayer a 50% energy savings for well over a decade,” said Zach Gibler, CEO of Lighting Science Group Corporation. “The federal government, as the nation’s largest energy consumer, has a tremendous opportunity and clear responsibility to lead by example. Investing in Lighting Science Group’s LED products will not only reduce the Government’s energy bill, but also lead to a range of other important benefits including safeguarding our environment and increasing our energy independence. The steps that NBVC has taken should serve as a leading example for military bases and government facilities nationwide.”

Four hundred thirty Lighting Science PROLIFIC Series RoadWay luminaires replaced the existing high pressure sodium cobra head street lighting fixtures throughout the residential areas. The PROLIFIC luminaires deliver outstanding performance, approaching 92 lumens per watt, currently leading the industry.

Five-hundred forty-nine Lighting Science WallPack luminaires were installed at the bachelor housing facilities. The WallPack fixtures are designed to illuminate exterior walkways and provide excellent perimeter and security lighting. They are designed to blend seamlessly with architectural elements of these buildings and are made of lightweight aluminum which is easy to install. The luminaires will last up to three times longer and will consume less than half the amount of energy than conventional light fixtures and light sources–only about 35 watts–less than the amount of energy consumed by a standard table lamp. To save additional energy, each fixture contains an on-board occupancy sensor that reduces fixture wattage and light output from 35 to ten watts, when it senses inactivity after a set period of time. As soon as this sensor detects movement within its line of sight, it instantly returns the light level to full brightness. This feature saves considerable energy during the early morning hours when occupants are in their rooms.

One-hundred and five Lighting Science ShoeBox luminaires replaced traditional parking and general area lighting fixtures. The ShoeBox luminaire is a versatile and distinct LED-based lighting fixture that provides a broad range of options for exterior area lighting applications. Using only 86 watts per fixture, the ShoeBox luminaire delivers excellent light color and glare free, low maintenance light for general illumination needs.

“The entire project at the two bases will reduce our energy consumption by 440,000 KwH (Kilowatt Hours) which translates into a reduction of 316 metric tons of CO2 emissions and will cut our annual utility bill by approximately $57,000, based on the average Ventura County, CA utility rate of 13.5 cents/kWh,” said Santoianni. “This helps us to set the environmental standard for U.S. Naval Bases.”

About Ventura Naval Base

Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) provides the Pacific Fleet with a premier mobilization site, complete with a deep water port, rail head, and airfield-all in one package. Port Hueneme has served the Navy since 1942 and for 57 years Point Mugu has had an impact on research, development, test and evaluation of equipment, camps and roads, to support not only the Seabees, but the Army, Air Force and Marines as well. Today, from the Aviators to the Seabees, NBVC provides world-class support to the defense of the United States. NBVC is the largest employer in Ventura County, with over 19,000 personnel (military and civilian) working for, or stationed on the base and contributing directly or indirectly to another 8,200 jobs throughout the county.

About Lighting Science Group

Lighting Science Group Corporation (LSCG.PK) designs, develops, manufactures and markets LED lighting solutions that are environmentally friendlier and more energy efficient than traditional lighting products. LSG offers retrofit LED lamps in form factors that match the form factor of traditional lamps or bulbs and LED luminaires for a range of applications including public and private infrastructure for both indoor and outdoor applications. LSG’s Custom Solutions business unit designs, develops and manufactures custom LED lighting solutions for architectural and artistic projects. LSG is headquartered in Satellite Beach, Florida; LSG’s Custom Solutions business unit is based in Rancho Cordova, California; LSG’s European operations are based in Goes, The Netherlands; and, LSG has sales offices in Buckinghamshire, England and Sydney, Australia. LSG has over 200 workers in its Satellite Beach, Florida manufacturing facility building LED lighting products from domestic and imported parts. LSG is a Pegasus Capital Advisors portfolio company. More information about LSG is available at www.lsgc.com.

Forward Looking Statements Certain statements in this press release may constitute “forward-looking statements” made under the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The statements include, but are not limited to statements regarding the performance of LSG and the performance of LSG’s products using terminology such as “development,” “well positioned,” “leading,” “breakthrough,” “state-of-the-art,” “advance,” “success,” “will,” “should,” “expected,” “best in class,” “unparalleled,” “would,” “could,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “potential,” “opportunity,” “greater,” “preparing,” “excellent” or “extensive.” Such statements reflect the current view of LSG with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the statements. In evaluating these statements, you should specifically consider various factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements. Readers should carefully review the risk factors detailed under “Risk Factors” in our Form 10-K’s, Form 10-Q’s and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

Source: Lighting Science Group

Related posts

• High School Students To Make Presentation at the 2010 Sustainable Energy Conference (5)
• Texas Tech Announces Formation of National Institute For Renewable Energy (1)
• Synergy with Energy 2009 – National Conference on Indian Energy Sector – June 17 & 18, 2009 (2)

“These innovative projects convert carbon pollution from a climate threat to an economic resource,” said Secretary Chu. “This is part of our broad commitment to unleash the American innovation machine and build the thriving, clean energy economy of the future.”

Converting captured CO2 into products such as chemicals, carbonates, plastics, fuels, building materials, and other commodities is an important aspect of carbon capture and storage technology. Converting CO2 into other useful forms can help reduce carbon emissions in areas where long-term storage of CO2 is not practical. It is anticipated that large volumes of CO2 will be available as fossil fuel-based power plants and other CO2-emitting industries are equipped with CO2 emissions control technologies to comply with regulatory requirements. 

The projects announced today were initially selected for a first phase funding in October 2009 as part of a $1.4 billion effort to capture CO2 from industrial sources for storage or beneficial use.  Over the succeeding months, the project teams have performed experiments on innovative concepts and produced preliminary designs for pilot plants to study the feasibility of capturing and using CO2 exhausted from industrial processes.  The selected projects now enter a second phase in which researchers design, construct, and operate their innovations at pilot-scale and evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of applying them commercially.  

The projects selected to demonstrate the beneficial use of CO2 include:

Alcoa, Inc. (Alcoa Center, Pa.)-Alcoa’s pilot-scale process will demonstrate the high efficiency conversion of flue gas CO2 into soluble bicarbonate and carbonate using an in-duct scrubber system featuring an enzyme catalyst.  The bicarbonate/carbonate scrubber blow down can be sequestered as solid mineral carbonates after reacting with alkaline clay, a by-product of aluminum refining.  The carbonate product can be utilized as construction fill material, soil amendments, and green fertilizer. Alcoa will demonstrate and optimize the process at their Point Comfort, Texas aluminum refining plant. (DOE Share: $11,999,359)

Novomer Inc. (Ithaca, N.Y.)-Teaming with Albemarle Corporation and the Eastman Kodak Co., Novomer will develop a process for converting waste CO2 into a number of polycarbonate products (plastics) for use in the packaging industry.  Novomer’s novel catalyst technology enables CO2 to react with petrochemical epoxides to create a family of thermoplastic polymers that are up to 50 percent by weight CO2.  The project has the potential to convert CO2 from an industrial waste stream into a lasting material that can be used in the manufacture of bottles, films, laminates, coatings on food and beverage cans, and in other wood and metal surface applications. Novomer has secured site commitments in Rochester, NY, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Orangeburg, SC and Ithaca, NY where Phase 2 work will be performed. (DOE Share: $18,417,989)

Touchstone Research Laboratory Ltd. (Triadelphia, W. Va.)-This project will pilot-test an open-pond algae production technology that can capture at least 60 percent of flue gas CO2 from an industrial coal-fired source to produce biofuel and other high value co-products.  A novel phase change material incorporated in Touchstone’s technology will cover the algae pond surface to regulate daily temperature, reduce evaporation, and control the infiltration of invasive species.  Lipids extracted from harvested algae will be converted to a bio-fuel, and an anaerobic digestion process will be developed and tested for converting residual biomass into methane.  The host site for the pilot project is Cedar Lane Farms in Wooster, Ohio. (DOE Share: $6,239,542)

Phycal, LLC (Highland Heights, Ohio)-Phycal will complete development of an integrated system designed to produce liquid biocrude fuel from microalgae cultivated with captured CO2.  The algal biocrude can be blended with other fuels for power generation or processed into a variety of renewable drop-in replacement fuels such as jet fuel and biodiesel.  Phycal will design, build, and operate a CO2-to-algae-to-biofuels facility at a nominal thirty acre site in Central O’ahu (near Wahiawa and Kapolei), Hawaii.  Hawaii Electric Company will qualify the biocrude for boiler use, and Tesoro will supply CO2 and evaluate fuel products. (DOE Share:  $24,243,509)

Skyonic Corporation (Austin, Texas)-Skyonic Corporation will continue the development of SkyMine® mineralization technology-a potential replacement for existing scrubber technology.  The SkyMine process transforms CO2 into solid carbonate and/or bicarbonate materials while also removing sulfur oxides, nitrogen dioxide, mercury and other heavy metals from flue gas streams of industrial processes.  Solid carbonates are ideal for long-term, safe aboveground storage without pipelines, subterranean injection, or concern about CO2 re-release to the atmosphere.  The project team plans to process CO2-laden flue gas from a Capital Aggregates, Ltd. cement manufacturing plant in San Antonio, Texas. (DOE Share:  $25,000,000)

Calera Corporation (Los Gatos, Calif.)-Calera Corporation is developing a process that directly mineralizes CO2 in flue gas to carbonates that can be converted into useful construction materials.  An existing CO2 absorption facility for the project is operational at Moss Landing, Calif., for capture and mineralization.  The project team will complete the detailed design, construction, and operation of a building material production system that at smaller scales has produced carbonate-containing aggregates suitable as construction fill or partial feedstock for use at cement production facilities.  The building material production system will ultimately be integrated with the absorption facility to demonstrate viable process operation at a significant scale. (DOE Share:  $19,895,553).

Source: DOE

Related posts

• Green Shoots for Future Green Jobs in US Fuelcells Industry (0)
• Green Jobs in the Reborn US Auto Industry (0)
• Green Conferences: July 4th – July 11th, 2009 (0)

The Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP), to be led by the California Institute of Technology (Cal Tech) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), will bring together leading researchers in an ambitious effort aimed at simulating nature’s photosynthetic apparatus for practical energy production. The goal of the Hub is to develop an integrated solar energy-to-chemical fuel conversion system and move this system from the bench-top discovery phase to a scale where it can be commercialized.

“The Energy Innovation Hubs have enormous potential to advance transformative breakthroughs,” said Deputy Secretary Poneman. “Finding a cost-effective way to produce fuels as plants do — combining sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide — would be a game changer, reducing our dependence on oil and enhancing energy security. This Energy Innovation Hub will enable our scientists to combine their talents to tackle this bold and highly promising challenge.”

Senator Feinstein said, “I’m very proud that California has been on the cutting-edge of the clean energy movement. With this award, some of California’s top scientists will continue to lead the way forward by working together to create ‘artificial photosynthesis,’ a process that can emulate the inner workings of plant life to produce a useful transportation fuel we can put right into our cars without further processing. If successful, this concept – to combine sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce a clean fuel – would revolutionize the energy sector. It would help scrub the atmosphere of excessive carbon dioxide, help eliminate our dependence on oil, and generate an innovative industry in the heart of California. This is very exciting.”

Senator Boxer said, “I am so pleased that this California consortium will receive this investment in clean fuels research, which has the potential to reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, increase our national security and create jobs in California.”

The Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub is one of three Hubs that will receive funding in FY10. In May, the Department announced that a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory will establish a Hub on modeling and simulation for nuclear reactors. The selection for the remaining Hub will be announced over the coming months. The Hubs are large, multidisciplinary, highly-collaborative teams of scientists and engineers working over a longer time frame to achieve a specific high-priority goal. They will be managed by top teams of scientists and engineers with enough resources and authority to move quickly in response to new developments.
JCAP research will be directed at the discovery of the functional components necessary to assemble a complete artificial photosynthetic system: light absorbers, catalysts, molecular linkers, and separation membranes. The Hub will then integrate those components into an operational solar fuel system and develop scale-up strategies to move from the laboratory toward commercial viability. The ultimate objective is to drive the field of solar fuels from fundamental research, where it has resided for decades, into applied research and technology development, thereby setting the stage for the creation of a direct solar fuels industry.

The Hub will be directed by Nathan S. Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor and Professor of Chemistry, Cal Tech. Other members of the Hub leadership team include: Bruce Brunschwig (Cal Tech), Peidong Yang (UC Berkeley/Berkeley Lab), and Harry Atwater (Cal Tech). In addition to the major partners, Cal Tech and Berkeley Lab, other participating institutions include SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, California; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of California, Irvine; and the University of California, San Diego.

Selection is based on a competitive process using scientific peer review. The selection process for the Fuels from Sunlight Hub was managed by the Department of Energy Office of Science, which will have federal oversight responsibilities for the artificial photosynthesis Hub.

The Hub will be funded at up to $22 million this fiscal year. The Hub will then be funded at an estimated $25 million per year for the next four years, subject to Congressional appropriations. Learn more information on the Hubs.

Source: DOE

Related posts

• List of the 31 U.S. Universities that will share $377 million to Create Energy Frontier Research Centers (1)
• Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Recieves Grant for Fusion Research (0)
• Sandia National Laboratories Partners with U.S. Universities on Energy Frontier Research (1)

“Staring down the barrel of record budget deficits, it is well past time for lawmakers to tackle our nation’s fiscal challenges,” said Steve Ellis, Vice President of Taxpayers for Common Sense. “The billions of dollars of cuts detailed in this report provide lawmakers a veritable menu of policy options that will help our country’s bottom line while also helping the environment.”

“For far too long, the federal government has incentivized practices that destroy our environment,” said Friends of the Earth Climate and Energy Tax Analyst Ben Schreiber. “This is particularly true with energy. In the fight to combat global warming, we cannot continue to subsidize the harmful practices that have forced us into this dire predicament.”

“Powerful corporations and other special interests have too much influence in Washington,” said Tyson Slocum, Director of Energy at Public Citizen. “We need to reform a system that allows corporations to charge their pollution to taxpayers’ credit cards,” Slocum added.

“With record deficits, it is outrageous that both Congress and the administration continue to waste money on programs that poison our air, foul our water and destroy pristine public lands,” said Environment America Washington Office Director, Anna Aurilio. “It’s time to save taxpayer dollars and the environment,” she concluded.

Friends of the Earth launched the Green Scissors campaign fifteen years ago to identify and eliminate environmentally harmful, wasteful federal projects. Detailed sources for the 2010 report can be provided by the primary authors: Autumn Hanna of Taxpayers for Common Sense and Ben Schreiber of Friends of the Earth.

The report can be viewed at http://www.foe.org/green-scissors.

Source: Taxpayers for Common Sense, PRNewsire

Related posts

• Report: More Than One Out Three U.S. Counties Face Water Shortages Due to Climate Change (3)
• Algae-Based Fuels May Create More Than 47,000 Green Jobs in the U.S. by 2013 (2)
• US Government Agencies Testifing Today About Importance of Clean Energy and Green Jobs (0)

Most clean diesel grants involve widely used strategies such as retrofits or replacements.  However, the emerging technologies program promotes deployment of innovative approaches that have not yet been verified or certified by EPA or the California Air Resources Board.  Instead, the program enables evaluation of these promising technologies in the field while providing air quality benefits to the surrounding area. Diesel engines emit approximately 7.3 million tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and 333,000 tons of soot annually. 

Recipients of the emerging technologies grants are:

·         City of Los Angeles Harbor Department for $731,000 for a hybrid crane with a small diesel generator combined with a battery to be used at ports.
·         California Air Resources Board for nearly $1.2 million for a NOx reducing device for locomotive engines.
·         University of Houston for $1 million for NOx reducing technologies installed on school buses.
·         Puget Sound Clean Air Agency for nearly $1.2 million to use a seawater scrubber, which removes pollution from large ship engines.
·         South Coast Air Quality Management District for $1.5 million for an exhaust capturing mechanism used on a variety of ships while at port.

Throughout this summer, EPA is awarding a total of $120 million under the diesel emissions reduction program (often known as DERA) to help lower exhaust from the existing fleet of 11 million diesel engines in communities nationwide.  Grants included under DERA, in addition to the emerging technologies grants, are:

 
·         SmartWay Finance Program grants
·         National Funding Assistance Program grants
·         Direct grants to all states for clean diesel programs
·         First-ever clean diesel tribal grants

EPA’s new heavy-duty highway and non-road diesel engine standards taking effect over the next decade will significantly reduce emissions from new engines.  However, these standards apply only to engines manufactured in the year 2007 and beyond.  The 11 million diesel engines in use today will continue to pollute unless emissions are controlled with technology and/or cleaner fuels.  EPA’s National Clean Diesel Campaign and the SmartWay Partnership assist fleets with controlling diesel emissions through financial and technical assistance.

l
Source: EPA

Related posts

• Sun Pirate Announces July Workshop Dates for NABCEP (Solar) Entry-Level Certification (0)
• Wayne State (1)
• Wanted: Sales,Management,Purchasing,Assistants and Installers for California Solar Energy Company (0)