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Archive for January, 2020

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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Status on Residential Directional LED Fixtures

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Residential LED fixtures have a crazy wide range of efficacy, far surpassing the 40% span we reported on for commercial fixtures in November’s post. The wide range exists because of the recent history of Energy Star. Despite still being the best program for residential fixtures, it hasn’t changed its efficacy requirements since 2015. Other program […] …

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