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NEMA Announces Global Lighting Forum Initiative for LED Technology

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), a member of the Global Lighting Forum (GLF), has announced an initiative to coordinate and promote LED (light emitting diode) technology on a global…

Mule Lighting Launches DYNalux Induction Lighting Division

Mule Lighting, a manufacturer of lighting and battery related products since 1923, has established a new division to focus on the development of induction lighting technology and solutions. Click here…

TED Publishes Article on LED Modules

I authored an article for the October issues of TED Magazine, the official publication of NAED, covering developments in LED modules, which promise faster to market, easier to service, more…

Product Monday: Decorative LED Lighting by LSI

LSI’s three decorative pedestrian-scale area lighting products—the Enterprise, Intrepid and Lexington—are now available with LED lamping. Built around the company’s SmartTec intelligence platform, these decorative pedestrian area lights are designed…

Controls Friday: Vizia RF Wireless Lighting Controls by Leviton

Nice video from Leviton describing the company’s Vizia wireless RF home and lighting controls. I’m using a Lutron Maestro wireless dimmer switch now, which enables my family to activate the…

Controls Friday: Lutron Announces New Dimmer Designed and UL Listed for Controlling Dimmable CFLs, LEDs, Halogen and Incandescent Lamps

Lutron Electronicshas introduced two styles of dimmers, Diva/C•L and Credenza/C•L, that work not only with today’s most popular lamps such as incandescent and halogen, but also with dimmable CFLs and…

Carmanah Unilaterally Terminates Lightech Merger

On November 4, LightNOW reported that Carmanah Technologies, a manufacturer of solar LED lighting and power systems for industrial applications, had entered into a process to acquire Lightech Electronic Industries…

NLPIP Publishes Addendum to Report on Streetlighting Technologies

In September, the National Lighting Product Information Program (NLPIP) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center (LRC) released a publication called Specifier Reports: Streetlights for Collector Roads, which provides objective…

Jim Brodrick on Round 11 of CALiPER SSL Product Testing

Guest post by Jim Brodrick, U.S. Department of Energy t’s been a while since I’ve written about DOE’s CALiPER testing program, and the Round 11 Summary Report was published this…