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Department of Energy Report Takes the Pulse of LED Savings

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just released a report that details the savings gained from switching over to energy efficient LED lighting by the U.S. market. The report, entitled Adoption of Light-Emitting Diodes in Common Lighting Applications, breaks down the 2012 cost savings of the following categories of lighting. Indoor lamps (residential) Indoor luminaires [...]

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U.S. EPA Shines Light on Latest Lamp Specification Draft

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) distributed the latest draft of their ENERGY STAR® Lamps Version 1 program specifications. The new specification, in development since mid- 2011, is intended to replace the existing CFL and LED ENERGY STAR program specifications. Draft 4 includes a number of changes from the previous draft: Updated definitions [...]

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More News on Possible California Rebate program for LEDs

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Here’s a quick follow-up to my blog from earlier this month on the CEC’s proposed voluntary LED lamp spec. The main purpose of the spec is to provide performance requirements for any future utility rebate programs. (See: Rebates for Consumer-Friendly LED Light Bulbs Coming Our Way?) Materials from the October 11th workshop were recently posted. [...]

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Rebates for Consumer-Friendly LED Light Bulbs Coming Our Way?

Friday, October 19, 2012

Consumer rebate programs for products using new efficient technologies don’t guarantee market transformation. A good example of this is the low adoption rate of disappointing CFL light bulbs in California since the early 1990s, when the state’s utilities introduced their first CFL rebate programs. To prevent history from repeating itself, the California Energy Commission (CEC) [...]

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U.S. EPA Moves Closer to Harmonized Lamp Spec, but Still Has a Way to Go

Friday, July 27, 2012

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just released its Draft 2 of a program specification aimed to combine the individual specs for LED and CFL light bulbs (lamps). The ambitious project began last October, when the EPA issued a first attempt at a technology-neutral specification for a wide range of general lighting lamps, including [...]

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New Online Tool for LED Bulb Type Selection

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Whenever you see a picture of an LED bulb, you most often see an A19 bulb – the one that most resembles the familiar incandescent bulb that goes in your overhead light fixture or reading lamp. However, LED lighting comes in all shapes and sizes, from street lights to office lighting, to that dimmable track [...]

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Download the Display Week 2012 Mobile App

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Next week the Society for Information Display will hold it’s annual Display Week symposium, seminar, and exhibition at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.  You can download a mobile app that features: A directory of the Symposium, with session details including speaker information and poster sessions. Exhibitors’ forums also included. Floor maps of the Boston Convention [...]

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