Giant Russian Greenhouse Shows LEDs Swaying Light Bulb Die-Hards
- Suppliers Philips Lighting, Osram see LEDs expanding on farms
- Installation west of Moscow is the size of 40 soccer fields
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About 350 kilometers west of Moscow, in a farming region too cold to grow produce for more than a few months a year, greenhouses stretching into the horizon are being equipped with something of a revolution.
The 122,000 light-emitting diodes to be supplied by Philips Lighting NV are the latest sign that a trend, which has already swept through markets ranging from homes to cars and street lamps, is now winning over the pickiest of lighting connoisseurs: farmers.