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• Lyon develops new device to measure lighting levels
5/03/2012 - The City of Lyon has just begun using a new custom-designed measuring device to quantify and qualify street lighting levels in order to ensure compliance with the European standard EN 13201.
• Lighting for sustainable mobility in Dresden
5/03/2012 - The new Molen Bridge in Dresden, the first route exclusively for cyclists that connects the city centre to the Ubigau district, has been lit using LEDs.
• Cities in South Baltic region examine LEDs in public space
1/03/2012 - The EU project “LED - Light in Public Space”, which aims to provide facts that help municipalities convert their public lighting to LED technology, will be holding its LED Academy Seminar on light and urban planning from the 27th to the 29th of March 2012 in Wismar.
• 2012 call for proposals under the “Intelligent Energy - Europe” programme
1/02/2012 - A call for proposals for funding under the Intelligent Energy - Europe (IEE) programme was published on the 20th of December 2011.
• Public consultation on EU Green paper “Lighting the Future”
13/01/2012 - On the 15th of December 2011, as part of the Digital Agenda for Europe, the European Commission adopted a Green Paper and launched a public consultation on the future of solid state lighting.
• LUCI Charter - new signatory cities
13/01/2012 - One of the PLUS project’s reference documents, the LUCI Charter on Urban Lighting, continues to evolve, with two more signatory cities (Ghent and St Etienne) and new steps forward.
• Leipzig and Los Angeles present energy-saving projects at ForumLED
14/12/2011 - The City of Leipzig presented its project, “Intelligent Lighting City Centre” at the ForumLED Europe conference on the 7th of December 2011.
• EU Green Paper on Solid State Lighting (SSL)
22/10/2011 - As part of the Digital Agenda for Europe, the European Commission will soon publish a Green Paper on Solid State Lighting.
• Three projects on Solid-State Lighting (SSL) selected from the CIP call
22/10/2011 - The 5th call for proposals of the Competitiveness and Innovation framework Programme (CIP) concerning innovative lighting systems based on Solid-State Lighting (SSL), came to a close on the 30th of May 2011.
• New lighting for Nice’s historic waterfront walkway
22/10/2011 - Nice Cote d’Azur Urban Community will soon be implementing a project renovating the lighting of its celebrated walkway, the Promenade des Anglais
• Lyon’s lighting experiments continue
15/08/2011 - The City of Lyon has put in place two more experimental lighting projects that reduce energy consumption and adapt lighting operating times to the dynamics of the city.
• Tallinn illuminates its pedestrian crossings with a “green” lighting solution
15/08/2011 - The City of Tallinn is now using a new generation of 70W LED luminaires that provide approximately the same visual and technical specifications required for illuminating pedestrian crossings as those demonstrated by prevalent 150W/250W metal halogen lamps.
• Leipzig to sign LUCI Charter on Urban Lighting
• Bassano del Grappa switches off
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20/05/2011 - The City Council of Leipzig has officially validated the LUCI Charter on Urban Lighting, meaning that the city will soon be among the 32 other signatory cities.
1/03/2011 - The Italian energy saving campaign “M’Illumino dimeno - I willuse less light” was the occasion for the City of Bassano del Grappa to draw attention to its sustainable energy management policies on the18th of February 2011.