A draft on streetlighting standards in Australia and New Zealand has been released for public comment. 

Twenty LED lighting products have been banned or recalled in the EU so far this year due to serious risks of electric shock or fire.

Twenty LED lighting products have been banned or recalled in the European Union so far this year due to risks of electric shock or fire.

A New Zealand electricity company has sent a letter to a lamppost threatening to cut its power off. 

Los Angeles is retrofitting 210,000 streetlights – in more than 400 different styles – with LED sources, in what the city believes is the largest project of its kind in the world.

A growing number of lighting manufacturers and suppliers are coming up with funding packages to help companies make the move to energy-efficient lighting.

The long-awaited new version of Part L – the section of the Building Regulations focusing on energy efficiency – will come into force in April 2014, the government announced today.

An £8 million LED streetlighting upgrade in Greater Manchester is being held back by several months, it has been revealed, while the council looks into concerns about the health effects of LEDs.

Lighting manufacturers need to work harder to understand their customers’ need in the age of LED, says GE’s European boss.

Lighting manufacturers need to work harder to understand their customers’ need in the age of LED, says GE’s European boss.

One in six commercial properties could be deemed ‘unfit to let’ under new energy performance rules – unless they upgrade to more efficient lighting.

Lighting may affect people's ethical behaviour, research by Taiwanese psychologists suggests. They modified three classic experiments to test altruism under different levels of fluorescent lighting.

Lighting may affect people’s ethical behaviour, research by Taiwanese psychologists suggests.

A lamp recycling scheme has been found not guilty of breaching regulations on the disposal of waste lighting products, after the Environment Agency abandoned the case.

US financial regulators have accused a Chinese lighting company of defrauding investors of millions of dollars.

West African nations have agreed to phase out inefficient incandescent lamps. Government representatives from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have successfully established a regionally coordinated framework to transition to energy efficient lighting.