Leeds based Harvard Engineering plc is pleased to announce it has won a contract worth £4M to deploy its award-winning central monitoring and wireless control solution for street lighting, LeafNut, across Blackpool. The contract follows the decision by Community Lighting Partnership (CLP), working on behalf of Blackpool Council, to award E-ON UK the renewal and ongoing maintenance work of life-expired road lighting, illuminated traffic signs and traffic signals equipment.

Harvard Engineering plc, one of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of lighting ballasts is pleased to announce the launch of its new French based European operation. The facility based in St Georges-les-Baillargeaux, near Tours in France, will spearhead the company’s strategy to grow the business across continental Europe.

Harvard Engineering plc, a world leader in the design and manufacture of electronic ballasts and control products for the lighting industry has launched one of the world’s first Dali dimmable LED drivers at the Arc Show 2010 in London. The Dali dimmable driver delivers unprecedented flexibility as it now provides retailers and other users with full dimming capabilities, something that has not previously been possible with HID lighting solutions.

Harvard Engineering plc, a world leader in the design and development of electronic ballasts and control gear for the lighting industry, is pleased to announce it has made two new appointments to the sales and marketing team. Sophie Whitehouse from Halifax and Matt Hanson from Leeds, have joined as sales executives and will be responsible for developing new business opportunities for the company in the UK. Both Sophie and Matt are alumni of Pareto Law.

Leeds based Harvard Engineering plc is pleased to announce it has won the prestigious Innovation of the Year Award at the Yorkshire Post Excellence in Business awards for its revolutionary LeafNut wireless street lighting system. The award was sponsored by Yorkshire Innovation. The LeafNut system, which gives Local Authorities the ability to accurately control and monitor all assigned lighting units by providing remote wireless, web based switching and dimming back to the operator through a web server, is already being deployed in many cities across the UK.

Keen to eliminate wasted energy and to cut pollution, Westminster City Council is taking steps to make savings from its street lighting with the deployment of a revolutionary new system it has been trialling as a part of its SMART Lights project. Savings of up to £46 per street light per year and 100kg of carbon emissions per street light per year can be made from the Council’s energy bill thanks to a ground breaking street lighting solution called LeafNut.

Leeds based Harvard Engineering plc, the country’s leading designer and manufacturer of lighting ballasts, is pleased to announce the launch of a new Cool-LED switchable LED driver. Part of the CoolPower range, it is the first of a series of LED products that the company plans to integrate into its already extensive product portfolio. Cool-LED drivers provide a high performance solution for powering high-brightness LEDs from a mains supply. The high efficiency design ensures cool operation and long life, whilst the compact enclosure is available with screw-less cable clamps for fast assembly or an integral version.

Yorkshire based Harvard Engineering plc, is pleased to announce it has won two prestigious awards. The first was won at the Yorkshire Digital Awards for its revolutionary LeafNut wireless street lighting system, in the category of Best Application of Internet Technology. The second was for Company Innovation at the 42 Under 42 Yorkshire Business Awards, and was also for the LeafNut system.

Huge financial benefits from energy savings by local authorities using the LeafNut street lighting system can now be realised. This follows approval of WiMAC by UMSUG, a committee of the UK wholesale electricity market managers, Elexon. WiMAC is the first central management system for the recording of unmetered supply to receive this approval.

Leeds based Harvard Engineering plc, the country’s leading designer and manufacturer of lighting ballasts, has announced the launch of the Micro20 and Micro35 ballasts. These are the first in the new CoolPower range of high quality, feature rich ballasts delivering greater efficiency and reliability for High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting. A further five ballasts through to a full 250 watt version will be launch over the next 12 months.

Harvard Engineering has launched CoolPower, a new generation of energy saving electronic ballasts for metal halide lamps.

Harvard Engineering has launched a new range of Rapid Plug electronic ballasts for use with 20W-150W HID lamps. Rapid Plug remote mounted ballasts are ideal for use in retail display lighting as they reduce contractor installation time