align="justify">Remco Solid State Lighting Inc. (Toronto, Canada) has broken through the barrier to replace conventional street lighting with its recently patented SSL technology.

Its disruptive SSL technology utilizes the dynamic resistance of LEDs providing a LED light engine that is up to 98% power efficient–only a 2% power loss which enables optimal power and LED lighting efficiencies as verified in a pilot test as proof of concept.

In a pilot test at Camp Borden Military Base ( CCanada) where the Remco LED Street Light prototype was installed in May, 2007, Alex Savu, Energy Manager at Camp Borden, measured and reported the following light meter readings confirming that Remco’s LED Street Light achieved superior lighting results when compared to conventional HPS street lights:

At the Yellow line on road: Remco 1.3 F.C./14 LUX vs. conventional 0.7 F.C./7.5 LUX On average: Remco 1.2 F.C./13 LUX vs. conventional 0.9 F.C./9.7 LUX. he Remco prototype (a LED lighting fixture within a cobra head fixture) consumed 111 watts to replace 138 watt conventional HPS street lights (100 watt HPS bulb + 38 watt ballast) - a 20% energy savings at 40.1–47.7 lumens per watt (4470 useable lumens with a standard lens and approximately 5300 useable lumens without a lens).

When Remco completes its very own SSL luminaire design, incorporating its LED light engine, proprietary thermal management, and secondary optics, and with the usage of a LED supplier’s white light emitter at 100 lumens/watt, Remco’s LED Street Light will achieve approximately 50% energy savings (72 watts to replace conventional 138 watt HPS street lights - 100 watt HPS bulb + 38 watt ballast = 138 watts).

In addition to the proof of concept of its power efficient LED light engine via a street light application, the company has also developed a fully integrated pendant linear SSL luminaire to replace fluorescent lighting and Edison-based LED bulbs at brightness levels equivalent to incandescent bulbs.

Remco's new LED light engine technology and SSL luminaires are gaining attention. The company was selected as one of Canada’s Top Ten Cleantech technology companies in 2007/2008 by the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation.

Remco is on the verge of setting new standards in the Solid State Lighting industry and is currently seeking a strategic alliance with a major global lighting organization to collectively take a commanding lead in high power LED lighting applications.