03/03/2010 | cnet news
The ARPA-E Summit, a conference designed to showcase potential breakthrough clean-energy technologies, started on Monday, attracting some 1,700 investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers all vying to reinvent the energy infrastructure to be cleaner and more efficient.
Given the makeup of the group, the mood is optimistic that new technologies can shake up even the slow-moving energy business. At the conference, scientists and entrepreneurs showed off early-stage ideas, such as kinetic energy storage systems or methods for low-cost solar power.
One company vying for ARPA-E funding is Energy Focus, which makes LED bulbs that can replace existing fluorescent bulbs, offering more control and higher efficiency, according to the company.
(Credit: Martin LaMonica/CNET)
01/12/2010 | World Market Media
Stone River Companies LLC, a subsidiary of Energy Focus Inc announced that it was awarded 7 lighting contracts totaling $12.3 Million. Stone river company is a Green focused company that produces energy efficient lighting solutions. Their newest product is an Energy focus LED dock light. Video on the company’s website shows various employees smashing competitor’s dock lights, while Energy Focuses’ remains impervious.
read more01/05/2010 | Cleveland Plain Dealer
Energy Focus Inc., the Solon lighting manufacturer, said Tuesday that it has completed the $5 million acquisition of an electric contracting company called Stones River Cos.
Stones River, based in Nashville, Tenn., specializes in redesigning electrical systems for existing buildings to make them more energy efficient.
Energy Focus will pay SRC owners, TLC Investments LLC, $1.5 million in cash, and revenue-based benefits valued at about $3.5 million. Energy Focus, which announced its plan to buy Stones Rivers in September, says the deal will help the company sell more of its lighting products into the existing building market.
read more01/01/2010 | Plain Dealer, Featured Story of 01/01/2010
SOLON, Ohio—For nearly 25 years, Energy Focus Inc.’s fiber-optic lighting business depended on the new-home and commercial-building industries.
So when new construction came to a near-standstill in 2009, so did demand for the lighting systems made by the Solon company.
That caused the company to act fast, making big changes to its business plan. Over the past year, Energy Focus has positioned itself to tap into a growing public-sector construction market, which has been a major benefactor of federal stimulus money. The company hopes to bring in streams of new revenue beginning in 2010.
read more07/23/2009 | Green Business Quarterly
When Whole Foods began “spotlighting” its seafood to highlight premium items in special displays, the chain encountered a two-pronged problem: the incandescent halogen bulbs gave off too much heat, warming the food and driving up the stores’ electric bills. Enter Energy Focus, Inc.
read more07/01/2009 | Foundation for Enterprise Development
Technology and Innovation
Under this DARPA SBIR, Energy Focus successfully upgraded their High Efficiency Distributed Lighting (HEDLight) system by implementing an innovative process to effectively apply an organometallic external barrier coating (thin film) to arc tubes. The coatings extended lamp life by preventing or delaying lamp failure by devitrification, a condition where the surface of the fused quartz develops deposits, cracks or wrinkles. The program succeeded in ex tending DC 3rc source lamp life by a factor of five, more than twice the program goal.
06/29/2009 | Supermarket News
LED lighting has become an accepted alternative to fluorescent lighting in refrigerated and freezer cases, but is LED really better than fiber optics?
Refrigerated and freezer cases account for nearly half of a supermarket’s annual electricity costs, according to the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. Meanwhile, the lighting used to illuminate those cases figures in one-quarter of those costs or one out of every eight dollars spent on energy in a store.
read more06/01/2009 | Architectural Lighting
Energy Focus wasn’t always in the business of developing new technology for the military. Originally founded in 1985 as Fiberstars, the company built its reputation on fiber optic products and lighting for museums and retail applications. In 2000, the company began working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on an initiative to create high-efficiency distributed lighting that could better use optics to spread and focus light. The research resulted in a patented optic to reduce glare. By 2006, the company was collaborating with Sturtevant on the naval lights. Sturtevant says partnering with commercial companies like Energy Focus helps foster new applications for both the military and civilian marketplace. “If a product survives a Navy ship environment, it can survive any application ashore,” he says.
Energy Focus has since brought their advanced LED technology onto dry land. The design of the naval light has been reconfigured for commercial environments. The marine-grade electronic specifications were adjusted to make the units lighter and more affordable, and the Navy’s specific color temperature requirements were altered, resulting in three new consumer products.
read more03/31/2009 | Greentech Media
The U.S. Army now uses rockets with flares that provide infrared light to soldiers wearing night vision goggles on the battlefield.
But apparently the Army thinks light-emitting diodes (LEDs) could beat the flares on performance and reliability and it's asking Energy Focus (NSDQ: EFOI) to help research the possibilities.
The Solon, Ohio-based maker of fiber-optic and LED lighting, which has seen some tough times in its commercial, industrial and swimming pool lines of business, said Tuesday it has won a Department of Defense research grant to work on replacing flares with LEDs.
read more10/01/2008 | Entertainment Engineering, 2008 Issue 10, pg. 14
Decorative lighting fixtures look like real jelly fish, but also minimize energy consumption.
Sometimes, innovative architectural designs come from new technology.
09/01/2008 | Grocery Headquarters Magazine
Sophisticated monitoring systems and equipment upgrades keep supermarkets humming withing running up the energy bill.
Seeing the Light - For every $100 in revenue, $1 goes to energy costs, and out of every $1 in energy cost, with almost one-quarter of that going towards lighting, according to Julia Dolsen, marketing manager for Solon, Ohio-based Energy Focus. “So anything they save there has an impact.” she says.
07/07/2008 | Entertainment Engineering - Pages 14-15 & Page 17
Custom countertops light up the night with thousands of fiber optic lights.
read more07/01/2008 | Aquatics International
Energy Focus’ Star Ceiling creates the illusion of a starry-night sky with over 1,200 fiberoptic lights installed in the ceiling over this extravagant Hotel owned water park.
read more05/25/2008 | The Plain Dealer
The dollar, once king of Cash Hill, now lies in a deep trough with the home currencies of London, Munich, New Delhi and Tokyo towering above.
But for global manufacturers in Northeast Ohio, the low-value buck creates a competitive edge for products they’re selling abroad.
read more05/01/2008 | U.S. Department of Energy
The Defense Commissary Agency operates a worldwide chain of commissaries providing groceries to military personnel, retirees and their families. Patrons save an average of more than 30 percent on their purchases compared to commercial prices, which is a valued part of military pay and benefits. For these reasons, keeping costs low is paramount to the Defense Commissary Agency.
Conventional lighting and refrigeration systems typically work against each other. Lighting systems generate heat, which the refrigeration system needs to remove. In addition, lower temperatures typically reduce the efficacy of lighting systems. Thus, more power is required to generate the desired illumination, which in turn, increases the load on the refrigeration system.
The old incandescent lights were replaced with 36, 15-watt white LED (light-emitting diode) fixtures from Energy Focus, Inc.2 The LED lights offer several advantages over the incandescent lamps.
read more03/11/2008 | Portland Tribune
Imagine the energy savings if grocery stores, offices, department stores, cinemas and other commercial spaces switched to a lighting system that operates on about 25 percent of the energy used by incandescent lights.
read more08/20/2007 | NCET News
Here’s that final touch you’ve been looking for in the kitchen remodel war with the Joneses: efficient fiber optics (EFO), the “breakthrough in accent lighting technology,” could be perfect for your undercounter needs.
DARPA calls it a breakthrough technology with the potential to innovate lighting systems across the Department of Defense. The Navy is currently testing Energy Focus technology on two ships at sea, where it expects to save 52,000 kWh a year on one ship alone.
07/01/2007 | Lighting India - July/August 2007
Michael Morrison is Managing Director of Fiberstars Crescent Lighting Ltd. a UK based subsidiary of Energy Focus, Inc. actively involved in technical and commercial lighting for over 30 years and worked for Thorn Lighting, ITT Lighting Design Service, Edison Halo, Condord Lighting he founded Crescent Lighting in 1988.
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