June 2009

WAC Lighting showcased two innovative OLED fixture prototypes at Lightfair last month, including an OLED mini chandelier and an OLED wall sconce. The OLED Wall Sconce features six color changeable three-inch OLEDs. The mini chandelier uses eight colorful, transparent, one-inch OLEDs, including a panel depicting the WAC Lighting logo. Each OLED draws only 0.18W; each [...]

The National Lighting Bureau’s 30th annual High-Benefit Lighting Awards Program is under way. This unique program is open to virtually anyone associated with a “High-Benefit Lighting” installation: owners, designers, facility or property managers, contractors, manufacturer’s representatives, utility employees and users, among others. The National Lighting Bureau coined the term “High-Benefit Lighting” to describe lighting systems [...]

Braemar Energy Ventures, a venture capital fund making early- to mid-stage investments in the energy technology sector, recently announced a $10 million investment in Fulham, an assembler and distributor of electronic ballasts and drivers for fluorescent, HID and LED lighting. Fulham joins Braemar’s energy efficient lighting portfolio comprised of Laser Light Engines, Nuventix and Luminus [...]

The T8 lamp has been around longer than the T5 lamp and is a bigger market, so there are more offerings. Now we are seeing T5 technology diversifying. For example, Philips Lighting Company has introduced a 49W T5HO fluorescent lamp as an alternative to 54W T5HO lamps, ideal for hi-bay applications in retail big box [...]

Lighting.com was founded in the 1990s and has since endeavored to serve as a portal for the lighting community. I buy advertising in their newsletter for one of my clients. But all the email addresses for my contacts are no longer working, emails to their general box go unanswered, the phone’s disconnected, they didn’t exhibit [...]