Craig DiLouie

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Building Technologies Office (BTO) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) (DE-FOA-0002160) to seek broad stakeholder input to inform the strategic direction of the DOE lighting research and development (R&D) portfolio. The purpose of the RFI is to better understand how lighting research goals can be refined to reflect evolving technology needs and inform related R&D activities.

For the electrical contractor, allying with a distributor participating in a midstream rebate program means being able to purchase or recommend energy-efficient lighting at a resulting cost discounted by a built-in rebate.

The launch of Whiz 2.0, Meteor Lighting’s latest Architectural High Bay, supersedes the Whiz, a flagship product of the company that has been specified in more than 1,000 projects to date. The Whiz 2.0 is sleeker, compact, and more architectural, producing up to 35,400 lumens to illuminate spaces with high ceilings from mounting heights of 30 feet and above, as well as having uplight versatility for indoor applications.

Because it’s impractical to mock up every design element in a project, lighting designers often rely on photometric reports and computer-generated renderings to predict the distribution and effects of light after lighting is installed. In this LinkedIn article, The Lighting Practice’s Evan Wilson explains what’s involved.

The Illuminating Engineering Society is holding a whitepaper challenge. Beyond 2030: What Do You See? imagines what the state of the lighting industry will be in 2030, what our biggest challenges might be during this next decade, and how we should focus our energy in order to continue to move forward as an industry.

BriteSwitch recently published a post on its website analyzing the best and worst regions of the United States for lighting rebates.

LD+A recently published an informative piece by Sarah Dreger, the global leader of Digital Practice for Stantec’s Buildings practice, about how lighting designers can efficiently stay up to date on current digital technology, from software and apps to VR and AR.

Espen Technology offers a line of commercial LED downlights with field-adjustable light output and correlated color temperature (CCT). This switchable output and CCT reduces the inventory carrying requirements for distributors and electrical contractors.

This blog post by OSRAM discusses the importance of the LED driver, the quality of which can significantly impact LED product performance, reliability, and lifetime.