Lighting Industry

  I was recently struck by a pair of articles in Home News Now, about the reduction in furniture imports and exports in 2025 versus 2024. The reductions suggest tariffs are reducing trade flows on both sides of the furniture market: imports fell almost three times more than exports (on a percentage basis), narrowing the [...]

  By Brad Koerner, Creative Director, Koerner Designs There is plenty of latent opportunity in launching application-level innovations in specification-grade, interior architectural lighting categories. But the problem is that no one is looking. The architectural lighting industry has become so stagnant that for the past decade, no one is even considering it as a possible [...]

  EV charger rebates in 2026 are at record coverage and dollar levels, but the programs are more volatile, complex, and time‑sensitive than ever, especially with a key federal tax credit expiring mid‑year. 85% of the US is now covered by a rebate or incentive for installing an EV charger, up from 78% a year [...]

  LinkedIn measured the year-over-year growth of marketing skills based on two criteria: Skill acquisition measures the growth of a given skill being added to member profiles. Hiring success measures the growth of a given skill possessed by members who have been hired in the past year. Here are LinkedIn’s top 10 fastest-growing marketing skills, [...]

According to rebate experts BriteSwitch, commercial lighting rebates remain widely available and financially attractive in 2026, but programs are shifting toward deeper energy savings, controls, and away from legacy fluorescent technologies. Despite high LED penetration, many utilities still view lighting as a cost‑effective efficiency resource and are increasing many incentive levels to drive next‑generation retrofits [...]

  Los Angeles is grappling with a severe streetlight crisis, with about 1 in 10 of its 225,000 streetlights out of service and a repair backlog of roughly 33,000 open service requests, many due to copper wire theft and vandalism. Residents in multiple neighborhoods have been left in darkness for months, with the average repair [...]

  There is a shortage in AI memory chip supply, due to the explosive growth in AI server memory demand. DRAM and NAND prices have surge up to 70%. This memory shortage will not directly constrain basic lighting components (LEDs, drivers, optics), but it is likely to slow availability and raise costs for “smart” and [...]

  By Geoff Marlow, Founder & President, Marlow Advisory Group This article is reprinted with permission from MarlowAdvisoryGroup.com. The lighting industry is at an inflection point. After decades in this business, I’ve watched the same patterns repeat, the same mistakes compound, and the same opportunities slip through our fingers. It’s time we had an honest [...]

  Quantum sensing uses uniquely quantum properties of light and matter—such as superposition, entanglement, and squeezed states—to measure physical quantities (like phase, displacement, fields, or photon number) with sensitivities that can surpass classical sensors. In photonics, new interferometry-based schemes with quantum light can simultaneously estimate multiple parameters of an optical network (e.g., phase shifts and [...]