Industry News
Product Monday: Alba by Stack
The next generation of light bulbs features embedded intelligence, with many new products becoming available, as the editor of LEDs Magazine recently pointed out. An interesting new product that’s been…
DOE Updates National Reference Standard for Commercial Buildings to 90.1-2013
Following preliminary analysis that ASHRAE/IES’s 2013 energy efficiency standard contains energy savings over the 2010 standard – 8.5% source energy savings and 7.6% energy savings – the U.S. Department of…
DOE Announces Solid-State Indoor Lighting 2014 Award Winners
The Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Design Competition recently recognized 57 commercial LED indoor lighting products as part of its sixth annual awards program. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy,…
2014 Nobel Prize in Physics Goes to Inventors of Blue LEDs
Dr. Shuji Nakamura, one of the founders of Soraa, Inc.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2014 to Isamu Akasaki, Meijo…
Upgrading Fluorescent Luminaires to LED: What Happens to the UL Listing?
When a fluorescent luminaire is upgraded to LED, what happens to its electrical safety certification? It depends on whether the new lighting is an LED luminaire, LED retrofit kit or…
Product Monday: Adjustable Field Angle Optics by Lighting Services Inc
The new M20 and M40 Optic from Lighting Services Inc is a proprietary design to control the field angle while maintaining centerbeam candlepower. The new optics are now standard on…
Sizing Up Induction Lighting
Below is an article about induction lighting I contributed to the July issue of TED Magazine. Reprinted with permission. Induction lighting offers a longer-lasting alternative to HID and a potentially…
Sizing Up The Potential of OLED
Below is a reprint of an article about OLED lighting I contributed to the June issue of TED Magazine: Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is an exciting novel lighting technology. Popular…
A Look at OLED Lighting
Acuity Brands’ video promoting OLED lighting is an interesting take on the technology that transcends the technical and appreciates the light source as an effective tool for enriching spaces with…
Jim Brodrick on LED PAR38 Lamps
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 PAR38 lamps put in long hours lighting…
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