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Archive for December, 2019

Federal Dollars Pushing Commercial Efficiency: L-Prize Update

The Department of Energy wants to significantly stimulate the efficiency of commercial lighting products. A decade ago, their original Lighting Prize revolutionized screw-in bulbs. Now the current competition is even more ambitious: a multi-year project with serious money, hoping “to unlock the … future of illumination in commercial and institutional buildings.” It’s come along since [ ...

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Happy New Year from Fred Davis Corporation

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2019 brought our new blog, The Lightening Volt, replacing the occasional e-newsletter we produced for years. We hope you enjoyed the first post in our series on the status of LED fixtures, demonstrating a surprising spread in efficiency. We’ll continue that series into 2020. After that, we’ll keep sharing compelling posts on lighting that every […] …

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Commercial vs Residential Fixtures: What’s the difference?

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It’s a definitional mess discerning the difference between “residential” and “commercial” lighting fixtures. Everyone subjectively knows the difference between “residence” and “commerce”. But can one say that a product is one or the other? Is a sandwich “residential” or “commercial”? So it is with trying to categorize light fixtures as either “reside …

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