Craig DiLouie

  The following Craig DiLouie article appears in tED Magazine and is reprinted with permission of tED Magazine. DiLouie interviewed executives at Genlyte Solutions, Cooper Lighting Solutions, and Current. The LED revolution produced dramatic energy efficiency gains and numerous new capabilities. As LED source efficacy is largely realized and plateauing, manufacturers are more deeply exploring [...]

  Craig DiLouie interviewed Eric Jerger, VP/GM of Cooper Lighting Solutions, a Signify business, about field-adjustable luminaires. This interview will inform an article by DiLouie in the January 2026 issue of tED Magazine. DiLouie: How would you define a field-adjustable luminaire? Jerger: A field-adjustable luminaire is designed to give contractors, distributors, and end users flexibility [...]

  This is an interview Craig DiLouie did with Tony Costa, Product Marketing Manager, 3D Printing at Signify. It will inform DiLouie’ article for the August 2026 issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR. DILOUIE: What are the benefits of 3D-printed lighting? What is the general state of adoption of additive manufacturing in the lighting industry? COSTA: 3D [...]

Craig DiLouie interviewed two Signify executives about commercial indoor lighting trends, Steve Baronoff, National Distribution Leader at Genlyte Solutions, a Signify Business and Lisette Ditters, Indoor Segment Leader at Genlyte Solutions, a Signify Business This interview was conducted for an article that will appear in the November 2025 issue of tED Magazine. DiLouie: The lighting [...]

Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP recently had the opportunity to interview Szymon Slupik, President, CTO, Silvair about Bluetooth SIG’s new full-stack wireless lighting control standard, Bluetooth NLC.

Today’s outdoor LED lighting offers a range of utility covering optics, color output, controllability, connectivity, and energy efficiency, writes tED Magazine lighting columnist Craig DiLouie, LC.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Eric Gibson, Director, Product Market – Commercial Outdoor, Acuity Brands, for an article I developed for the November 2023 issue of tED Magazine, the official NAED publication. The topic: what’s new in outdoor lighting. DiLouie: According to the Department of Energy in its last SSL forecast in 2019, [...]

I recently had the opportunity to interview Andrew Antares, Project Manager of Technical Development, DesignLights Consortium (DLC), for an article I developed for the November 2023 issue of Electrical Contractor Magazine, the official NECA publication. The topic: new sample language that municipalities can use to address “light pollution” as a potential byproduct of outdoor lighting.

For an upcoming article for Electrical Contractor Magazine, I recently had the opportunity to interview Mariana G. Figueiro, PhD, Director of the Light and Health Research Center (LHRC) and Professor in the Department of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Professor Mark S. Rea. The topic: a new methodology (called SOWatt), which specifiers could use to evaluate the relative energy efficiency of luminaires in delivering circadian-effective light.