Craig DiLouie

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.

LEDucation has published its archives of speaker presentations from 2013 to 2019, providing a wealth of information about LED technology, application, and trends.

I recently saw another story about China’s improbable and very dystopian idea to build an artificial moon to provide nighttime lighting. Website INSH took the concept seriously and asked how such a thing could be accomplished and what effects it would have.

LEDucation 2020 invites designers, educational leaders, innovative thinkers, and industry influencers to share their knowledge and expertise on subjects related to commercial and architectural lighting.

JESCO Lighting’s modular “SEAMLESS” S700 LED luminaire provides uninterrupted light output in an ultra-slim design coupled with inter-linkability that also allows for left/right or inside/out lit cornering.

Prescriptive product rebates offered by utilities and energy efficiency organizations are an enduring and influential force in the lighting retrofit market. Typically, the rebate is administered by the utility and paid directly to the customer, usually involving a lengthy process involving qualification, pre-approval, and payment. In recent years, some rebate programs have begun to experiment with a different model called midstream or “instant” lighting rebates. In this model, the rebate is provided via the distributor at the point of sale rather than directly to the customer (downstream) or to the manufacturer (upstream).

The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon has issued a call for applications for the 2019-2020 Design Challenge.

Using visible light from LEDs, visible light disinfection (VLD) technology is designed to provide functional illumination that is safe for humans, while containing recipes for saturated blue/violet emission that is harmful to germs. It has been commercialized by companies like Kenall Manufacturing (Indigo-Clean) and Vital Vio, Inc., which licenses to Visa Lighting, Evolution Lighting and others.

The Illuminating Engineering Society recently recognized the winners of the 2019 Illumination Awards.