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How Soaring Phosphor Prices Will Affect Utility Programs
January 18, 2012
Learn how to adjust your lighting programs to deal with the rising costs of the rare-earth metal phosphors used in fluorescent lamps.
Content type: E NEWS | Document ID: ENews-1-12 | Author: Lee Hamilton
Free Lighting Retrofits Get Hard-to-Reach Customers to Drop T12s
February 10, 2010
A new utility lighting efficiency program covers 100 percent of the cost of retrofits to reach the mostly small and medium businesses that have not yet participated in lighting programs. The effort also plays an important role in preparing for the coming phaseout of T12 fluorescent lamps.
Content type: DSM News | Document ID: EDRP-DN-2-10b | Author: Ira Krepchin
New Web-Based Service Helps Businesses Improve Lighting Design
January 22, 2010
A new online efficiency tool, the first in a planned series focusing on improving design rather than just retrofitting technology, can help commercial building owners improve retail store lighting.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-2-10a | Author: Essie Snell
LEDs: An Incandescent Opportunity for Utilities
December 21, 2009
The first light-emitting diode (LED) screw-in replacement lamp that promises to outperform both incandescent bulbs and compact fluorescent lamps has made its debut.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-1-10a | Author: Mary Horsey
PV LED Lighting Effective but Expensive in Field Tests
November 23, 2009
Recent field testing of solar-powered outdoor light-emitting diode (LED) lighting shows that LED/photovoltaic (PV) technology could provide adequate light while reducing energy use and light pollution.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-12-09a | Author: Ira Krepchin
Experts Discuss the Future of CFL Programs at IEPEC
November 2, 2009
Despite strong sales in recent years, the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) market in the U.S. is not yet transformed. As a result, utilities should continue broadly focused CFL programs, according to panelists at the 2009 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC).
Content type: DSM News | Document ID: EDRP-DN-11-09c | Author: Alexandra Behringer
Wireless Lighting Controls Show Efficiency and Demand-Response Potential
October 22, 2009
Three easy-to-retrofit, advanced lighting control products have strong potential to provide lighting energy savings of at least 50 percent compared to installations without control capabilities, according to testing from the Pacific Gas and Electric Emerging Technologies program.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-11-09a | Author: Ira Krepchin
New Product List Rescues LED Programs from the Jaws of Deceit
October 1, 2009
A new product-certification initiative promises to help utilities identify appropriate light-emitting diode (LED) products for incentive programs.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-10-09a | Author: Ira Krepchin
New Lighting Standards: Say "Goodbye" to T12s
August 25, 2009
New national minimum energy-efficiency requirements for general purpose fluorescent lamps and incandescent reflector lamps promise big energy savings and will affect utility incentive programs.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-9-09a | Author: Ira Krepchin
Report Shows Consumer Awareness and Acceptance of CFLs Is High
August 3, 2009
An interim report examining the influence of California utility efficiency programs on the compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) market shows that consumers’ awareness and acceptance of CFLs has significantly increased over the past decade.
Content type: DSM News | Document ID: EDRP-DN-8-09b | Author: Kim Knox
Special Report from LightFair
Advances in LEDs, Fluorescents, and Lighting Controls
June 25, 2009
Light-emitting diode (LED) products that use new cooling strategies to increase efficiency and lifetime were just one innovation presented at the 2009 LightFair International Trade Show and Conference.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-7-09a | Author: Ira Krepchin
E NEWS March/April 2009
April 20, 2009
In this issue of E NEWS: “Taming Plug Loads” and “Resource Guides Put You in Controls,” and Ask E Source answers a question about best practices in customer identity verification in call centers.
Content type: E NEWS | Document ID: ENEWS-MarApr09 | Author: Sarah Thompson
A Lighting Gateway to Demand Response
March 1, 2009
A new lighting control product promises to simplify the inclusion of lighting into demand-response programs for buildings that have building automation systems.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-3-09b | Author: Ira Krepchin
Recommissioning for Low Cost and Big Savings
Top Strategies for Tuning Up HVAC and Lighting
February 15, 2009
There are many opportunities to fine-tune your building’s HVAC and lighting control systems to save energy without sacrificing occupant comfort or equipment reliability—and at the same time prolong equipment life.
Content type: Energy Managers' Quarterly | Document ID: CEMC-EMQ-Q4-08 | Author: Greg Bradshaw
Recommissioning for Low Cost and Big Savings
Top Strategies for Tuning Up HVAC and Lighting
February 15, 2009
There are many opportunities to fine-tune your building’s HVAC and lighting control systems to save energy without sacrificing occupant comfort or equipment reliability—and at the same time prolong equipment life.
Content type: Energy Managers' Quarterly, ESCD Newsletter | Document ID: CEMC-EMQ-Q4-08-ESCD | Author: Greg Bradshaw
Task/Ambient Lighting: Stylish, Portable, and Efficient
February 1, 2009
A new desk lamp combines task and ambient lighting in one product to provide an efficient and aesthetic lighting solution for small offices, hotel rooms, lobbies, and waiting rooms.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-2-09a | Author: Ira Krepchin
Daylight Harvesting: Keeping It Simple
New System Promises Friendly Operation and Low Cost
January 1, 2009
A new approach to daylighting, called the Simplified Daylight Harvesting system, promises to reduce the difficulties plaguing many installations that automatically adjust electric lights in response to the amount of incoming daylight.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-1-09e | Author: Ira Krepchin
Big Savings Potential with LED Streetlighting Retrofit Kit
December 1, 2008
A new light-emitting diode (LED) retrofit kit for street- and area lighting promises better efficacy and light distribution than competing products and could help make LEDs a cost-effective solution for those applications.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-12-08b | Author: Ira Krepchin
Expanding Our Knowledge of Outdoor Lighting
Symposium Gathers Experts to Shape Future Design
December 1, 2008
Researchers discussed optimum color temperatures, challenges in dealing with glare, how changing conditions determine the light levels necessary, and some misperceptions about the need for uniform lighting.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-12-08e | Author: Ira Krepchin
Safety First for Metal Halide Lamps
November 15, 2008
Metal halide lamps usually fail safely, but on the rare occasions that they don’t, the results can be disastrous. For example, in 2001 a fire caused by a metal halide lamp gutted about 80 percent of a 990,000-square-foot warehouse in Mount Joy, Iowa.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-11-08b | Author: Ira Krepchin
Look Ma, No Mercury!
Electron-Stimulated Luminescence: A Bulb for the Future?
November 15, 2008
An alternative to the incandescent lamp, now under development, uses no mercury and promises better efficacy and longer life—although it’s not quite up to compact fluorescent lamp or light-emitting diode standards for some applications.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-11-08e | Author: Ira Krepchin
Can Dimming Ballasts Enable a Brighter Future?
October 1, 2008
A new dimming ballast for linear fluorescent lights will soon be available at a cost low enough to enable a host of lighting control capabilities that save energy, reduce demand, and provide better lighting satisfaction.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-10-08a | Author: Ira Krepchin
Can LEDs Shine for Energy Star?
September 1, 2008
Two sets of somewhat contradictory criteria for light-emitting diode (LED) lighting have created confusion in the LED marketplace.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-9-08b | Author: Ira Krepchin
Maine Study Prompts New Federal CFL Cleanup Guidelines
Tech News, July 2008
July 1, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency updated its compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) cleanup guidelines in May 2008 based on an initial review of the most comprehensive investigation of this topic to date.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-7-08a | Author: Jessica Rivas
The Latest on Lighting
Tech News, July 2008 — Tech Insights
July 1, 2008
Several lighting innovations were highlighted at the 2008 LIGHTFAIR International Trade Show and Conference. The most significant ones that will likely impact the market in the near term include new controls, light sources, and software.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-7-08e | Author: Ira Krepchin
LEDs Versus T8s: Buyer Beware
Tech News, May 2008
May 1, 2008
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) configured like four-foot linear fluorescent T8 lamps are a hot item judging by the press they're getting, but they don't appear to be living up to manufacturers' claims.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-5-08a | Author: Ira Krepchin
An Evolution in Photosensors
Tech News, February 2008
February 1, 2008
A new generation of photosensors provides better control options for daylighting systems, according to a new report. The photosensor, a key element in daylight harvesting systems, adjusts the light output of a lighting system based on the amount of light it senses.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-2-08a | Author: Ira Krepchin
Ann Arbor Lights the Way to LED Streetlighting
Tech News, December 2007
December 1, 2007
Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the first city in the U.S. to commit to LED (light-emitting diode) streetlighting in a big way—suggesting that LED streetlighting is now on the brink of commercial viability.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-12-07b | Author: Peter Criscione
EPA Revises Guidelines for Cleaning Up a Broken CFL
Tech News, August 2007
August 30, 2007
In response to concerns—some exaggerated—raised in the media and elsewhere about the hazards of mercury exposure when a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) breaks in the home, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star program has revised its cleanup guidelines.
Content type: Tech News | Document ID: TAS-TN-8-07c | Author: Peter Criscione
E NEWS May/June 2007
June 1, 2007
Articles in this issue of E NEWS include:"Price-Increase Communications: Pairing Actions with Words." In a yearlong E Source research project, we examined the price-increase communication strategies and tactics of utilities across the United States. Salt River Project stood out ...
Content type: E NEWS | Document ID: ENEWS-83 | Author: Lynn Arts
