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International LED lighting supplier Cree has posted strong global revenues for the 2011/12 fiscal year, but admits there's still some way to go before LED lighting becomes the norm in homes. Cree, which operates out of North Carolina but supplies LEDs the world over, posted total sales of $1.16 billion (£741 million) over the last year, Read more...

It's always a hot topic among homeowners, and it could be set to become even more of a burning issue come the turn of the year: industry analysts are predicting gas and electricity bills could rise by as much as 2.5 per cent in the next five months. The warning comes after Bank of England researchers investigated supplier and distribution Read more...

Local authorities in Wiltshire have proposed a new system of lighting management for the areas 20,000 street lights that hope to save money and move the council's CO2 emissions to a lower level, it was announced this week. According to reports, council officials are mooting the idea of switching off or dimming street lights in low-traffic Read more...

Sainsbury's has today boosted its claim to being the greenest supermarket retailer in the UK with the news that the chain has installed more that 69,500 solar panels across it's various locations nationwide. The company has now claimed top spot among Europe's largest commercial solar generators, boasting 16 millwatts (MW) of solar Read more...

Accounting giant Ernst & Young has this month completed a wholesale retrofit of its lighting in its New York headquarters, a project the firm has revealed will save the company an annual total of $1 million (£642,000). The installation - which saw LED lighting introduced to the New York building in one of the city's biggest ever Read more...

The much-vaunted advent of relatively affordable solar panels has been called into question this month after the government's changes to the feed-in tariff, and it seems the battle for sustainability could be being won by LED lighting as a result. The feed-in tariff (FiT) is a preset rate at which the national grid will buy back excess energy Read more...

A logistics company specialising in the distribution of food has made an annual saving of 70,000 kilowatt hours (kW) after retrofitting energy-saving LED lighting into its six distribution centres. Family-owned independent frozen food company Hopwells teamed up with Goodlight for a refit of its distribution centres based in sites around Read more...

The London 2012 Olympics have already lit up the world's television screens with a theatrical opening ceremony, a Michael Phelps-shaped record-breaking Olympian and a parachuting Queen. However, as SmartPlanet notes, much of the lighting behind the Games is powered by eco-friendly LED bulbs. Much has been made of organisers LOCOG's plans Read more...

The government is set to introduce changes to the feed-in tariff (FIT) rate at the start of next month, but confusion still abounds among consumers as to whether implementing solar power in their home makes for a good deal or not. That's according to a new survey by, aptly, Confused.com, which found that almost a third (28 per cent) of Read more...

Small and medium-sized businesses in the UK - or SMEs, as they are known to their mums - are set to receive a boost this month, after a scheme was announced to help such firms tackle rising fuel bills. Ardenham Energy has announced plans to provide small businesses with funding and installation of green ground source heat pumps (GSHP), creating Read more...