Craig DiLouie

There are many LED solutions available to upgrade from fluorescent T8 or T12, from new luminaires to retrofit kits and replacement lamps. Utility rebates for these LED solutions are growing but still not widespread. Here’s a BriteSwitch graphic showing what’s available now, based on their database. Learn more here.

The rapid development of lighting technologies, particularly solid-state systems using LEDs, has opened a universe of new possibilities as well as new questions about roadway lighting in the United States, which for decades has been dominated by the use of HPS lamps. Other light source technologies have also been angling for roadway market share. There [...]

Effective June 13, 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy suspended the L Prize PAR38 Competition. No entries will be accepted. The L Prize Competition launched in 2008 as the first government-sponsored technology competition designed to spur development of highly efficient, high-performance LED replacement products. A winning entry in the 60W replacement lamp category was awarded [...]

Hubbell Lighting and TOTUS Solutions, Inc., a provider of outdoor lighting-based security platforms, recently announced a strategic partnership to develop outdoor luminaires with state-of-the-art surveillance technology. Under the new partnership, select Hubbell Lighting outdoor luminaires will be available with TOTUS Solutions’ surveillance technology. TOTUS Solutions has combined into a single integrated solution superior megapixel IP [...]

LightNOW recently reported on an Application Summary Report published by the Department of Energy’s CALiPER program, which evaluated bare-lamp performance for 31 linear LED lamps and found that while the lamps provided similar efficacy, tested average light output was half as much as the benchmark 32W fluorescent T8 lamp, and there was significant variation in [...]

LIGHTFAIR was extraordinary this year, with many new products deserving attention. Dynamic control, color tuning, new forms and approaches, improving LED performance, extended control capabilities and more–get it all at the LIGHTFAIR Innovation Award entries here. The winners are included.

Sixteen award winners representing architectural lighting design projects from 10 countries comprise the winners of the 31st Annual International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) International Lighting Design Awards, recognized at a presentation held June 4 at LIGHTFAIR. Of the 16 projects recognized, four entries earned a Special Citation, five earned Awards of Merit and seven [...]

At LIGHTFAIR, Cooper Lighting announced the winners of the 37th Annual SOURCE Awards national lighting design competition. The annual competition, which began in 1977, focuses on furthering the understanding, knowledge and function of lighting as a primary element in design and requires the predominant use of lighting and controls products from Eaton’s Cooper Lighting business. [...]

Peerless Lighting’s Open LED Luminaire was recognized at the 2014 LIGHTFAIR International Innovation Awards competition for the Most Innovative Product of the Year award. Open luminaires from Peerless use constructive occlusion to reflect and diffuse LED light across an inner arch and back down to produce soft, comfortable illumination from a lens-free linear form. Open [...]