DOLED: 74% Penetration Predicted for LED

Silver Spring, MD: A comprehensive U.S. Department of Energy report predicting the market penetration of light-emitting diode (LED) white-light sources from 2010 to 2030 is available free from the National Lighting Bureau (www.nlb.org). Titled Energy Savings Potential of Solid-State Lighting in General Illumination Applications, the report, released last year but not updated since, predicts that growing reliance on LEDs will conserve 2,700 terawatt-hours (2.7 trillion kilowatt-hours) of energy use over the 20-year period, saving owners about $250 billion at today’s energy prices while reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 1.8 billion tons of carbon, assuming today’s power-plant generating mix stays in place. 

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