America's government-sponsored Next Generation Lighting Initiative, which has funded more than 70 different LED projects to date, aims to triple the efficiency of white LEDs by 2025.
They are expected to announce a new formal partnership with the World Bank, which will eventually provide financial and technical assistance for cities seeking to reduce emissions by improving energy efficiency in transit, power generation, lighting and public buildings.
America is also considering applying a little industrial policy: $480m will be made available over the coming decade if the "next generation lighting initiative" survives in the energy bill now being debated in Congress.
For validation purposes of the underlying models and design characteristics, the need to have in-orbit testbeds is addressed, especially for the novel robotic electro-mechanical components, such as DLR's intelligent robotic joints of the 3rd generation light-weight robot arms.
Even the federal government has jumped on the LED wave by allocating $50 million a year through 2011 for research on what it calls "next generation lighting".
