Interviews + Opinion

The lighting industry is going through drastic changes. In this week’s featured episode of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast, hosts Greg Ehrich, LC, former President of NAILD and owner of Premier Lighting, and Michael Colligan, an entrepreneur and inventor, talk to Peter Brown about where the lighting industry is at and what’s most likely coming in the future.

To better understand the trend toward luminaire-level lighting controls, Anne Curran, Senior Program Manager for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s Luminaire Level Lighting Controls initiative, interviewed Damon Bosetti, Technical Manager at DesignLights Consortium.

This year’s Strategies in Light featured a lively debate between noted experts in the field, tackling subjects ranging from controls to color tuning.

Harald Haas coined the phrase “LiFi” in 2011, and now he’s telling us it’s ready to enter version 2.0. He recently joined the Get a Grip on Lighting Podcast from the floor of the second Global LiFi Congress to catch us up on the history and development of light-based data transmission and its current applications in the fields of autonomous automobiles, privacy and security, and defense.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Nishad Chikhliker, Segment and Commercialization Marketing Manager, Connected Buildings, Eaton’s Lighting Division, on the topic of quality lighting.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Chris Bailey, Vice President, Integrated Solutions – Lighting at Hubbell Incorporated, for an article about the WELL Building Standard I developed for tED Magazine’s September issue. This is the transcript.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Richard Rattray, Commercial Engineer, LEDVANCE, for an article about midstream lighting rebates I developed for tED Magazine’s August issue. This is the transcript.

For an article I’m writing for the August issue of tED Magazine, I recently had the opportunity to interview Lee Levitt, National Utility Manager, Current Lighting Solutions, LLC, on the topic of midstream utility product rebates, defined as energy efficiency incentives paid/directed to the distributor/retailer level.

In an apparent response to criticisms about pushing the market exclusively toward energy efficiency, the DLC’s latest specifications are focused on lighting quality, which is getting some pushback from manufacturers and utilities, says Randy Reid, editor of EdisonReport, who attended the recent DLC stakeholders meeting.