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EIA: Lighting 10 Percent of Home Electrical Energy Use
The 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), produced by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), was recently updated to include additional energy end uses to include lighting and other equipment…
EC&M Editor Mike Eby’s LIGHTFAIR 2018 Product Picks
Wireless connectivity, IoT, color tuning, controllable optics, Li-Fi, new optics, this year’s LIGHTFAIR had it all. If this year’s show had a theme, I think it’d be Capabilities. LED fully…
Jim Benya on Energy Codes
Writing for LD+A, Jim Benya argues that lighting energy codes have reached a mission accomplished stage in terms of energy conservation. Energy codes, he says, did what they intended to…
OLED Evaluation
Below is another of my contributions to the May 2018 issue of tED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. OLED continues to develop as a complementary technology to LED. In 2016, the…
Product Monday: LiFi-Enabled Luminaires by Philips Lighting
Philips Lighting (now Signify) recently announced it has developed a Li-Fi platform. Designed as a complement for Wi-Fi, this technology uses light as a medium for wireless Internet access. The…
Cree’s Gary Trott Talks Office Lighting
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Gary Trott, VP of Marketing, Intelligent Lighting, Cree, Inc. The topic: trends in office lighting. The interview informed an article I wrote for…
Circadian Lighting 101
Below is my contribution to the June 2018 issue of tED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED. Reprinted with permission. Circadian lighting describes lighting systems designed to support human…
Jim Brodrick on LIGHTFAIR 2018
Republication of Postings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting Program by Jim Brodrick, SSL Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy At LIGHTFAIR® International, held a few weeks…
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR Covers Plug Load Controls
My contribution to the May 2018 issue of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talks about options for plug load control, now a requirement in many energy codes and an energy-saving control option for…
Product Monday: Smart Filament A19 by LEDVANCE
LEDVANCE’s full color smart filament LED A19 lamp offers dimming, color tuning, and tunable-white light output in addition to the other capabilities of the company’s SMART+ offering. Besides the A19,…
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