September 2010

Westinghouse Lighting has appointed John Broughton to the position of National Utility Program Manager. Previously, he worked for D&R International, the Department of Energy and MaxLight. As National Utility Program Manager, John will be responsible for administering and promoting utility incentive programs with Westinghouse Lighting’s customer base in retail, commercial and industrial channels. He will [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society has announced its Annual Conference. This year, the conference will focus on how the lighting industry is being transformed by energy standards and whether these priorities can be met while providing good lighting quality. The day prior to the conference sessions (Sunday) begins with a welcome by IES President, John Selander, [...]

Lumark has introduced AVID, a scalable, aesthetic series of luminaires designed with four scaled sizes to enable a consistent look throughout an application from the general lighting of large open spaces to decorative accents over counters and retail displays. Optic options include borosilicate glass lens, prismatic acrylic lens, high-performance aluminum reflector and optional shroud.

NEMA’s T5 lamp shipments index registered a reading of 152.0 during the second quarter of 2010, a 41.1% increase from a year ago. The index reclaimed lost ground from the previous quarter, rebounding by 19.8%. T8 lamp shipments also showed robust growth, increasing 12.7% on a year-over-year basis. Conversely, shipments of T12 lamps declined 2.6% [...]

LightNOW has learned the IALD Board of Directors has formed a task force to look into the viability of creating a design credential for architectural lighting designers. Many lighting designers already carry the LC credential.

The fluorescent magnetic T12 ballast has essentially been eliminated, and the common fluorescent T12 lamp is next. The time has never been better to upgrade existing lighting and control systems to improve energy efficiency and lighting quality. This whitepaper, which I authored for the Lighting Controls Association, makes the case for lighting upgrades, highlights key [...]

Guest Post by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy It’s been a while since I’ve written about DOE’s Lighting Facts® program in these Postings, and there have been some major milestones and developments, so I thought I’d give you an update on what’s been going on. You’ll recall that we launched the program in December [...]

NEMA’s compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) index posted a reading of 210.1 during the second quarter of 2010, negating the 3.1% year-over-year gain during the previous quarter. CFL shipments decreased 4.2% on a quarterly basis following increases of 14% and 1.8% for the previous two quarters. Meanwhile, shipments of incandescent lamps decreased 2.8% on a year-over-year [...]

Shipments of sodium vapor high intensity discharge (HID) lamps increased 3.9% to 92.6 in 2010Q2, the highest level in two years. The index reading was 17.1% above the same period last year. Metal halide HID lamp shipments decreased 4% percent to 82.5 from the previous quarter, but were still 0.5% above the same period last [...]