The U.S. Department of Energy awarded the L award again, seeking to accelerate the development of SSL in commercial buildings.
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Author : Shenzhen Crown Lighting
Update time : 2021-07-10 21:14:17
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded the L award again, seeking to accelerate the development of SSL in commercial buildings.
The new three-phase plan will encourage improvements in terms of lighting efficacy, led lights quality, connectivity, life cycle, and innovation/inclusiveness of LED-based systems.
The U.S. Department of Energy has relaunched the L Prize competition to seek advancements in LED-based lighting products in commercial spaces, including solar led flood light outdoor, SMD solar road light IP66, ugr 19 led panel light, ugr 19/ugr 17 down light led, etc.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch of a new L-Prize program designed to stimulate innovation in solid-state lighting (SSL) systems for commercial buildings. The plan will include three stages. Participants will first submit their concepts, and then selected participants will develop prototypes. The last one or two winners will be put into production and share a prize of USD 10 million (million). The total prize pool is 12.2 million. US dollars. The LED-centric competition encourages participants to improve and develop SSL systems in the areas of efficacy, light quality, connectivity, life cycle, and innovation/inclusiveness.
Long-term participants in the LED and SSL fields will certainly remember the original L award, but frankly, it happened so long ago that many newcomers may have missed the landmark market transformation plan. Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L-Prize) was conceived and launched in 2008 to accelerate the development of LED-based replacement lamps that met extremely stringent performance and performance requirements when products in the early SSL era often did not meet specifications and failed prematurely. Life goals.
The new version of L-Prize aimed at commercial buildings is far less clear. There are no preconceived notions about product shape or required performance level. Since the target is a commercial building, we assume that the contestant will work on the overall led lighting luminaire. The function that entrants are most likely to seek to replace is the dark slot widely deployed in office space.
The U.S. Department of Energy will host a webinar on June 10 to answer questions about the program. The concept phase has now started. Up to 10 contestants will be eligible to win USD 20,000 each. The US Department of Energy will also hold a comment period during the concept phase, where stakeholders will have the opportunity to help shape the prototype and manufacturing phase.
There will be a $2 million prize pool for the prototype stage, which can be allocated to up to three contestants. In addition, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will issue an RFI at the beginning of the prototype phase, which will help establish partnerships during the manufacturing and installation phases.
The expert review panel will judge the final success of the participants in the manufacturing and installation stages. As with the original L Prize, participants must be legally resident or residing in the United States. Participants will be required to produce the award-winning products in a US factory.
The U.S. Department of Energy has released a PDF file containing the rules governing this procedure. Points will be awarded in the logistics and actual performance categories. For example, life cycle cost and sustainability will play a role. Performance categories such as connectivity have a long list of themes called themes, each of which earns points—for example, energy usage reports. The plan will be managed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with technical assistance from PNNL.
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