Program Fact Sheets

This page contains links to fact sheets describing solid-state lighting programs, opportunities, and design competitions in place to facilitate the technology's successful introduction into the marketplace.

Program Fact Sheets

Doing Business with DOE's Solid-State Lighting Program
Provides overview of funding mechanisms for research partners and projects that align with the SSL R&D plan. (January 2013)
Funding Opportunities
Lists programs and resources to help researchers, manufacturers, and distributors locate funding to advance and deploy SSL products. (April 2013)
Guiding Market Introduction of High-Performance SSL Products
Previews the many pathways available to usher SSL products into the marketplace, and the partnerships and activities employed to ensure appropriate application. (January 2013)
Guiding Technology from Laboratory to Marketplace
Provides an overview of DOE's SSL lighting portfolio and its comprehensive approach based on long-term relationships with the SSL industry and community. (January 2013)
Solid-State Lighting Patents Resulting from DOE-Funded Projects
Lists the primary research organizations and patent applications both submitted to and granted by DOE. (January 2013)
Standards Increase Market Confidence in SSL Performance
Reviews current and future SSL standards developed by DOE and other standards-setting organizations to effectively measure and characterize SSL lighting products. (May 2013)
CALiPER Program Supports Unbiased Testing, Promotes Consumer Confidence
Describes DOE's product evaluation and reporting program, which tests product performance of SSL products available for general illumination. (April 2013)
GATEWAY Demonstrations Showcase SSL Product Performance
Outlines DOE's technology demonstration program, which evaluates high-performance SSL products for general illumination in a variety of real-world exterior and interior applications. (January 2013)
LED Lighting Facts^® Label Supports Accuracy in SSL Product Information
Provides a summary of LED Lighting Facts, a voluntary pledge program to assure that LED lighting is accurately represented in the marketplace, illustrated by the LED Lighting Facts label to disclose product performance data. (April 2013)
National Consortium Supports Cities in Evaluating LED Street Lights
Introduces group of municipalities, utilities, and energy efficiency organizations who are interested in making investments in street and area lighting. (April 2013)
LEDs for Street Lighting—Here Today
Provides a brief overview of the viability of LED street lighting in municipalities and highlights case studies of two cities—Los Angeles and Seattle—that have invested in LED street lighting. (April 2013)
Next Generation Luminaires^TM: Recognizing Innovative, Energy-Efficient Commercial Lighting Luminaires
Describes the annual SSL lighting competition recognizing excellence in technical innovation and design of high-quality, energy-efficient commercial lighting. (April 2013)
L Prize^® Drives Technology Innovation, Energy Savings
Provides an overview of DOE's L Prize competition, which challenges industry to develop high-quality, high-efficiency SSL products to replace 60W incandescent and PAR 38 halogen light bulbs, and highlights the competition's first 60W winner from Philips Lighting North America. (April 2013)