Lighting Industry

ELECTRICAL WHOLESALING recently published an article contributed by Egret Consulting’s Ted Konnerth, which evaluated the results of a company survey of lighting manufacturer reps. Key conclusions include the big firms have gotten bigger, firms are adding more lines and dealing with greater complexity, and major manufacturers are prioritizing projects over a stock-and-flow business.

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) recently published NEMA LSD 80-2018 Installation Guidelines for Outdoor Luminaires—Grounding Considerations. This white paper addresses the application of the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) as it pertains to the grounding of outdoor luminaires and recommends installation guidelines.

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, acknowledge and call out common biases that occur in the lighting industry.

For this roundtable, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR talked to six leading manufacturers and experts to measure the pulse of lighting technological change and what this change has in store for electrical contractors.

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.

The DesignLights Consortium recently announced it is accepting product submissions for its Horticultural Qualified Products List.

Lutron Electronics recently alerted the media to three trends in the lighting industry for 2019.

In 2017, the Rocky Mountain Institute published a report, Lumens as a Service, which proposes business models for adopting a light-as-a-service approach to market. Citing other industries such as solar photovoltaics and vehicles, RMI says the time is right for the lighting industry to innovate to offer commercial building owners immediate return on investment and improved lighting.

The DLC recently released the final version of SSL Technical Requirements Version 4.4. This Technical Requirements update consists of new policies that will allow high performance, energy-efficient horticultural lighting products, DC and PoE products, and field-adjustable light output products to be qualified and listed on the DLC Qualified Products Lists.