{"id":4932,"date":"2012-12-16T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T15:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2012-12-16T09:52:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T15:52:03","slug":"lighting-revolution-shakes-up-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4932","title":{"rendered":"Lighting revolution shakes up industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/962714b6-4611-11e2-ae8d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2FAQp0fhz\">Chris Bryant:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The lighting revolution is disrupting incumbents, such as Philips, Siemens-owned Osram and General Electric, which previously had an effective oligopoly in traditional lamps and lighting components, with a combined market share of more than 60 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The long lifespan of LEDs \u2013 up to 50 times more than an incandescent bulb \u2013 is a threat to the replacement market, which is a big source of the incumbents\u2019 revenues.<\/p>\n<p>To differing extents, they are therefore investing in new technologies, moving downstream into lighting systems (luminaires) and cutting manufacturing capacity in inefficient lighting.<\/p>\n<p>In the short term, this is eroding profits and triggering job cuts as manufacturing LEDs requires different skills and is less labour intensive than making traditional lamps.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bryant: The lighting revolution is disrupting incumbents, such as Philips, Siemens-owned Osram and General Electric, which previously had an effective oligopoly in traditional lamps and lighting components, with a combined market share of more than 60 per cent. The long lifespan of LEDs \u2013 up to 50 times more than an incandescent bulb \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}