The Industrial Technology Research Institute (News - Alert) (ITRI) has introduced three new award-winning green technologies: Light&Light, SideLighter, and AVA-Clamp. Taiwanese ITRI is looking to help consumers reduce energy consumption on a grand scale with these new technologies.
ITRI is targeting the greenhouse effect, aiming to curb the current trend by waylaying carbon emissions.
The technologies ITRI has developed to help in this pursuit are environmentally sustainable across all phases of development, from innovation to design, function to manufacturing processes.
Light&Light is an LED light bulb technology made entirely of plastic. It has an illumination angle of 330°, weighs less than 100 grams, and uses only 10 watts to produce the same light as a 60-watt incandescent light bulb. The Light&Light bulb is fully break-resistant, weighing only half of a standard LED light bulb, and its pricing reflects that--a Light&Light bulb is only 10-20 percent the cost of competing bulbs.
In total, a Light&Light bulb can save approximately 85 percent on power consumption alone.
SideLighter, on the other hand, is a solar panel that can be used for energy generation as well as a structural panel or window, as the panel is transparent. The solar panel is a concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) type, including such compact solar cells that cost a whopping 93 percent less to produce than standard photovoltaic cells.
As far as energy saving goes, a SideLighter offers increased effectiveness to help achieve grid parity in record time.
The last of ITRI’s three new technologies is the AVA-Clamp. Low in cost and easy to use, the AVA-Clamp is a clamp-on voltage and current meter technology, used to measure the amount of power a household or commercial appliance uses. The AVA-Clamp can be applied to microwaves, television, or industrial machines, to name a few, and it offers a convenient method of monitoring energy usage at a low price.
According to ITRI, AVA-Clamp users can save up to 10 percent of their energy by using a micro-electromechanical system-based metering technology such as the AVA-Clamp to learn the energy consumption rates of everyday devices.
All three devices work in separate ways to reduce energy usage, but they reduce more than just that: ITRI claims customers using the devices will see their energy bills drop drastically thanks to its new product line.
Edited by Brooke Neuman