Craig DiLouie

In an October 2018 blog post, EncentivEnergy CTO Mike Cham challenged the utility industry to come up with a method of more accurately determining energy savings and rebate value for field-adjustable LED lighting products.

In this week’s featured episode of 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, revisit how to plan a retrofit with even more considerations.

Digital Trends recently published a list of their favorite smart lamps offered in 2018. Compact, color tunable, voice-controlled, programmable, these lamps can enrich a home in a variety of ways.

CSIL’s recent research publication, The Lighting Fixtures Market in the United States (July 2018, 190 pages, EUR 1,600), estimated that consumption of luminaires few at an average annual rate of 4.6% between 2012 and 2017, resulting in a $20 billion industry.

Outdoor lighting manufacturer BEGA now offers wood poles for pairing with the company’s pole-top luminaires. A variety of heights, styles, and finishes are available for different applications and operating environments.

Morgan Pattison, principal of SSLS, Inc., senior technical advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solid-State Lighting Program, and lead author of DOE’s Solid State Lighting R&D Plan, recently contributed an article to LD+A Magazine stating the majority of lighting/health research has been in laboratory conditions. For real progress to be made in developing best practices, more field research is needed.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Brian Vedder, Product Marketing Manager, Signify. The topic? Quality lighting.

Valuing the residential smart lighting market at $1.5 billion in 2017, market research firm IHS Markit predicted growth to over $4.5 billion in 2021, making it one of the fastest-growing areas of smart lighting. This article, which I wrote for the January 2019 issue of tED Magazine, describes trends in residential smart lighting.

Hosted by Mark Lien, the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Forces of Change podcast recently invited the Lighting Research Center’s Dr. Nadarajah Narendran to talk about developments in 3D printed lighting and what this may mean for the industry.