Products + Technology

Lighting for Tomorrow is launching its 2010 competition—with a focus on lighting control devices and SSL luminaires and replacement lamps. For the first time, Lighting for Tomorrow will be looking at lighting control products including stand-alone, system-based, and whole house devices. The lighting controls competition is building on the 2009 fluorescent dimming competition by seeking [...]

Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL) recently announced that it has acquired Luminaire Testing Laboratory (LTL), based in Allentown, PA. LTL is an independent testing laboratory that provides performance testing of lamps and luminaires and is one of five laboratories approved by the Department of Energy for ENERGY STAR qualification testing for LED lighting products. The acquisition [...]

While the days of incandescent may ultimately be numbered, those numbers will not be 2012, 2013 or 2014, as originally thought after passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The energy-saving version of Philips Halogena already complied, and now Sylvania has a halogen screw-in lamp that is compliant. Currently, there is a [...]

Cree, Inc. recently announced a new efficacy record of 208 lumens per watt for a white power LED. Cree’s tests confirmed that the LED produced 208 lumens of light output and achieved 208 lumens per watt efficacy at a correlated color temperature of 4579K. The tests were conducted under standard LED test conditions at a [...]

Most light sources have a particular standardized size and shape that affects how objects and surfaces will be illuminated. Point sources are small lamps, often featuring a clear outer glass bulb revealing the arc tube or bare incandescent filament, used to produce dramatic highlights and pronounced shadows. Linear sources, such as tubular fluorescent lamps, emit [...]

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, reprinted with permission from Postings: from the desk of Jim Brodrick [Recently,] DOE published the final ENERGY STAR criteria for integral LED lamps, which go into effect August 31, 2010. These criteria are the culmination of a long process of comment and revision, with the first draft published in January [...]

Creative Stage Lighting has announced that it will host “The ABCs of Lighting a Green Show” on Friday, March 26, 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM (according to the promotional email) or 5:00 PM (according to the website) EST. The webinar, presented by Richard Cadena, will explore the latest technologies and how they compare to conventional [...]

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The Star-Ledger recently reported that utility Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) is installing 96,000 induction streetlights to replace older streetlights in 81 municipalities, including Newark, as part of a $50 million infrastructure project. U.S. Lighting Technologies is a key supplier to the project. Induction lighting was chosen for energy savings (30-40% compared to mercury [...]