July 2012

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has called upon Congress and the White House to rise above partisanship to find common ground to avoid the “fiscal cliff” threatening our nation’s economy, solvency, defense, and vital operations. “Clearly, there are strong and legitimate differences of opinion among our nation’s elected officials on tax policy, spending levels, [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy has completed Series 15 of testing through the DOE Solid-State Lighting CALiPER program. A summary of the results is now available for download on the DOE SSL website here. Report 15 of testing analyzes the performance of a group of 10 LED floodlights that mirrors the broad range of conventional [...]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a report that looks at the direct and indirect material and process inputs to fabricate, ship, operate, and dispose of LED lamps, compared with incandescent lamps and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). LED Manufacturing and Performance is the second part of a larger DOE project to assess the [...]

Solid State Luminaires recently unveiled TERRASCAPE, a durable landscape accent light with sealed 15° spot, 25° narrow flood, 40° flood and 60° wide flood distribution and 3000K or 4000K color temperatures. TERRASCAPE features a 45° positive dual aiming lock system (180° rotation). The housing is constructed of marine grade, die-cast aluminum for long lasting performance.

Cooper Lighting has announced a call for entries for its 36th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The competition, which focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element in design, is open to all lighting designers, architects, engineers, professional designers and consultants who use Cooper Lighting fixtures in [...]

The Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition recognizes the highest-quality LED luminaires for commercial building applications. This year, the competition is broken into indoor and outdoor competitions. The indoor competition winners were announced earlier this year. Now the outdoor competition is formally launching. Written Intents to Submit are due by August 3, 2012, and must be [...]

Philips has appointed Bruno Biasiotta to head the company’s North American lighting operations. In his new role, Biasiotta will be responsible for driving market share for Philips’ lighting businesses in North America, including Lamps, Consumer Luminaires and Professional Luminaires. He is taking over the role from Zia Eftekhar, who announced his retirement last month, and [...]

by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy The 2012 edition of LIGHTFAIR International was [recently held] in Las Vegas, and since the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SSL team was there staffing our booth in support of our SSL educational efforts, we thought we’d share some observations with you. For starters, LED products, which have [...]

Sunoptics recently opened its renovated Sacramento-based facility and new Daylighting University training center with an additional 12,000 square feet of offices and training facilities. The new 1,600-sq.ft. daylighting training facility, where the company will host monthly training seminars and customer presentations, will open September 1. Founded in 1978, Sunoptics Prismatic Skylights is a manufacturer of [...]