Craig DiLouie

The California Lighting Technology Center will exhibit several interesting new technologies in booth #2034 at LIGHTFAIR 2010 in Las Vegas next week. These include the Adura LightPoint System, a wireless integrated photosensor and motion sensor system that uses wireless communication to control lighting from a Web-based application while avoiding costly and complicated rewiring. Another product [...]

If you are attending LIGHTFAIR next week, you may want to stop by the DOE Solid-State Lighting booth (#2121). Representatives from DOE will be on hand to answer your questions about the latest CALiPER test results, GATEWAY demonstrations, the Lighting Facts label, design competitions like Lighting for Tomorrow and Next Generation Luminaires, the L Prize [...]

The University of California, Davis has signed co-exclusive license agreements with Wattstopper and Axis Technologies Inc. to commercialize inventions that reduce the cost and increase the reliability of daylight harvesting systems–control systems that automatically adjust indoor lighting to match changes in ambient daylight. The license agreements cover a package of strategies and technologies developed by [...]

Students in UC Davis Professor Michael Siminovitch’s Winter 2010 Lighting Design studio course, taught at the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC), engaged in the hands-on design and development of prototypes for fully working LED luminaires. On the day of the final critique, the classroom was set aglow with 26 designs ready for evaluation. Industry representatives [...]

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today approved legislation that for the first time would set national energy efficiency standards for pole-mounted outdoor lighting. These standards are supported by NEMA. In 2007, the Department of Energy estimated that outdoor lighting consumes more than 178 TWh annually, which is the equivalent of 42 coal-burning power [...]

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES) has announced the 29th Annual Street and Area Lighting Conference to be held September 26-29, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Hotel in Huntington Beach, California. The Conference provides industry professionals with a forum for an open exchange of information on a wide range of outdoor [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently reached a milestone for the ENERGY STAR program by passing the 1 millionth ENERGY STAR-qualified home mark. Since the program began labeling new homes in 1995, Americans have saved $1.2 billion on their energy bills, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 22 billion pounds, according to EPA. To earn [...]

GE Lighting has announced that its plant in Bucyrus, OH is expanding manufacture of T8 lamps, partly thanks to Federal stimulus funding and incentives from the state of Ohio. “Expanding our plant in Ohio to add more volume to our production allows us to maintain our current 160 jobs in today’s tough economic environment, plus [...]

Alera Lighting, a manufacturer of architectural and specialty fluorescent luminaires for offices, schools, and institutional buildings, recently updated and expanded their express program including T5 standard lamp products, OSRAM 0.88 and 0.71 fixed-output programmed-start rapid-start ballasts, and dust covers for T8 or T5 standard products where applicable. Alera Lighting also provides “for record” drawings in [...]