Industry News
Demand for Halogen A-Lamps Accelerated in First Quarter of 2012
NEMA’s shipment index for halogen A-line lamps showed a continued acceleration in growth during Q1 2012, improving by 110% on a year-over year basis. Halogen A-line lamps garnered a share…
2012 IES Street and Area Lighting Conference to be Held September 9-12
The 31st annual Illuminating Engineering Society Street and Area Lighting Conference will be held in Miami September 9-12, 2012. This event was created for industry professionals to openly exchange information…
GE Lighting Announces New Professional Solutions Organization
GE Lighting recently announced it is aligning its Lighting Solutions sales and applications solutions teams with its North America professional sales teams under a single structure and single leader. Jaime…
Product Monday: Mino LED by Peerless
Peerless Lighting’s Mino is a suite of three direct ambient 2×2 LED luminaires–Recessed, Surface and Pendant–that deliver quality illumination, modern design and energy efficiency. Designed to be kind to the…
IES Launches IESLightLogic.org Website
The Illuminating Engineering Society has launched a new blog-format website designed to educate the public about good lighting. The site, produced by IES and written by myself and industry writer…
LED Rebate Programs Proliferate
Originally published in TED Magazine, April 2012. More than $5 billion in commercial lighting rebates are offered in nearly eighty percent of the United States, according to Leendert Jan Enthoven,…
Department of Energy Approves Exemption for Halco 700 Series T8 Lamps
The Department of Energy Office of Hearings and Appeals has granted Halco Lighting Technologies a two-year exemption relief for certain T8 fluorescent lamps from the efficiency regulations that went into…
FMI Publishes Construction Outlook Second Quarter 2012 Report
From FMI: “Economic forecasting is a tricky business even in normal times, and the current national and global economy is anything but normal. Nonetheless, FMI’s forecast calls for more slow…
NEMA Calls on Congress and White House to Act on Pending Fiscal Cliff
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has called upon Congress and the White House to rise above partisanship to find common ground to avoid the “fiscal cliff” threatening our nation’s…
DOE Releases CALiPER Application Summary Report 15
The U.S. Department of Energy has completed Series 15 of testing through the DOE Solid-State Lighting CALiPER program. A summary of the results is now available for download on the…
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