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Market Intelligence for Lighting Developers

July 2022
DS: My contribution to the May issue of US Lighting Trends highlights the need for resilient lighting. It is republished here with permission.

The Urgent Need for Resilient Lighting
Source: LightNOW 

A scan of recent news headlines reveals the need for lighting that can operate in dire environmental conditions. Last month’s wildfires in New Mexico and Arizona and last week’s “tornado outbreak sequence” that devastated parts of Texas and Oklahoma are just recent examples of why resilient lighting has become an important topic.
Read the full article here.
 
DS: The latest science on light pollution, collected by IDA.

IDA Releases 2022 State of the Science Report on Light Pollution
Source: LightNOW

The International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) released the “Artificial Light at Night: State of the Science 2022” report, earlier this month. It is a high-level overview of the best scientific understanding of how artificial light at night affects the nighttime environment. It finds the world transformed by electric light in less than 150 years since its introduction.
Read the full post here.
 
DS: Vermont bans all 4’ fluorescent tubes, based on mercury not efficiency. 

Vermont First State to Ban 4’ Fluorescent Tubes, but Probably Not The Last
Source: LightNOW

On May 19, 2022, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed H.500 into law, making Vermont the first state in the US to ban all four-foot linear fluorescent lamps. The bill will go into effect January 1, 2024, complemented by an existing law  to phase out all screw-based compact linear fluorescents beginning February 17, 2023. Taken together, these two policy actions will remove well over 90% of the fluorescent lighting products from the Vermont market, by January 1, 2024, saving Vermont residents $167 million in reduced utility bills by 2040, and cutting 1,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity.
Read the full post here.
 
DS: DOE predicts 98% drop in linear fluorescent shipments between 2015-2026.

DOE Estimates Linear Fluorescent Lamp Shipments Dropped 85% Between 2015 & 2022, Heading for 98% Drop by 2026
Source: LightNOW

On May 31st, 2022, the US Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Notice of Proposed Determination that it does not intend to amend efficiency standards for General Service Fluorescent Lamps (GSFL). On July 11th, 2022, DOE held a webinar presenting its rationale.
Read the full post here.
 
DS: EV charging may dramatically increase energy efficiency ROI.

Will Electric Vehicle Charging Change the Energy Efficiency Game?
Source: LightNOW

Disruptive lighting technology consultant Peter Brown, recently wrote an interesting article in US Lighting Trends, about the potential of EV chargers to change the energy efficient buildings industry. He shares a real-world scenario of a commercial building wanting to install 50 EV chargers in the parking lot or garage, but the electricity demand would require roughly $1 million dollars of additional electricity supply infrastructure.
Read the full post here.
 
DS: NAILD wants to do away with integrated luminaires that don’t have replaceable lamps or engines.

NAILD & Its Sustainable Lighting Committee Issue Open Letter about Integrated LED Luminaires
Source: LightNOW

The National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors (NAILD) and its sustainable lighting committee recently published an open letter, detailing a list of concerns with integrated LED luminaires and a set of recommendations for the industry. NAILD is a trade association for the lighting distributor channel. The letter explains the negative life cycle/waste consequences of integrated LED luminaires, and proposes 5 changes that the industry should adopt.
Read the full post here.
 
DS: Keep an eye on "Big Plumbing".

"Big Plumbing" Muscling into Lighting
Source: LightNOW

For the past two decades, thought leaders in the lighting industry have been publicly lamenting that the lighting industry will be gobbled up by the electronics industry, Silicon Valley tech giants, and the big telecoms. 20 years into the LED era for general lighting, and this still has not come to pass. However, there is another, less glamorous industry slowly increasing its acquisitions, footprint, and influence in the lighting industry, and it is hardly getting any attention. 
Read the full post here.
 
DS: New technology offers flexible and powerful networked lighting control outdoors.

Award-Winning Controller + Antenna Extends Bluetooth Range to 900 Feet
Source: McWong International

McWong’s TruBlu Bluetooth mesh Fixture Controller with Long Range Antenna won two prestigious Innovation Awards at LightFair: The Technical Innovation Award and a Control Components & Hardware Category Award.

The TruBlu Bluetooth mesh Fixture Controller with Long Range Antenna offers flexible and powerful networked lighting control outdoors. Since hardwiring is cost-prohibitive for outdoor applications, the introduction of a long-range (900ft) Bluetooth mesh wireless controller that can be integrated directly into a wide range of commercially-available fixtures enables more applications to utilize Bluetooth mesh. Together with features like continuous dimming, DLC certification, zone and luminaire level lighting control options, this controller enables cost-effective Bluetooth mesh control for outdoor lighting.
More information is available here.
 
DS: David Gordon of Channel Marketing Group researches and reports on how lighting manufacturers launch new products. 

Introducing New Lighting Products – Exclusive Research
Source: Lighting Design & Specification / David Gordon

New products are the oxygen of manufacturers, and the industry. While most sales come from products that have been introduced more than three years ago, progressive companies focus on a key metric – revenue from products introduced in the past three years. This is even more important for lighting manufacturers. Since lighting went from “analog” to digital, the electronic components have turned the lighting industry into a new product factory to the point that some companies introduce 50-100 new products a year.
Read the full article here.
 
DS: Pa-Co Lighting acquired by Lumenpulse parent, LMPG.

Lumenpulse Parent, LMPG, Acquires Pa-Co Lighting
Source: inside.lighting

Architectural lighting brand Lumenpulse was founded in 2006 and has grown both organically and through acquisitions to become part of a $300+ million (CAD) architectural lighting powerhouse, LMPG, Inc., that includes well-known architectural lighting brands like Fluxwerx and Sternberg Lighting. Today, the company announced the acquisition of another Quebec-based architectural lighting company, Pa-Co Lighting, maker of architectural, C&I, vandal-resistant and medical lighting products.  
Read the full announcement here.
 
NRCan Communiqué Discusses the Possible Ending of ENERGY STAR Lighting Programs
Source:  Email from NRCan 

On June 29, NRCan, the Canadian government’s energy & environment agency that runs ENERGY STAR programs in Canada, sent out an email that discussed the US DOE’s new GSL & GSIL standards that will institute the 45 lpW “backstop,” and how this might impact ENERGY STAR lighting programs moving forward. Most notable in the email was raising the possibility of US EPA ending ENERGY STAR lighting programs:

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA’s) ENERGY STAR Program is currently processing market implications of the new U.S. standard. Should the US EPA decide to go forward with a proposal to sunset or otherwise alter relevant ENERGY STAR technical specifications, it will do so through its usual open and transparent process with timing established in consultation with its stakeholders. 

Given that utility rebate programs will still be running in 2023, we would not expect any such action to be effective before the end of next year.

 
DS: Lights Out is for the birds.

Lights Out Programs Continue To Spread Across North America
Source: LightNOW

The FLAP program in Toronto was the first to raise awareness of the problem lights pose for birds in an urban center, starting in 1993. In 1999, Audubon and partners established the first Lights Out program in Chicago. Since then, groups in many other cities have organized programs to make a difference for birds. See the list below or explore the map of the Lights Out network.
Read the full post here.
 
DS: Lessons from a bat "superhighway".

Innovative Outdoor Lighting Design Nominated for Award
Source: LightNOW

A bat ‘superhighway’ with specially tuned lighting has been nominated for a Build Back Better Award., a London-based awards program. The streetlights along a stretch of road in Frederiksborgvej, Denmark, have been designed to have a minimal impact on the local bat population while providing the required lux and uniformity levels for Danish road and cycle path standards.
Read the full post here.
 
DS: Interesting developments emerging in emergency lighting.    

Bright New Ideas on Emergency Lighting
Source: Facilities Net/ Maura Keller

Emergency lighting is an important part of a facility’s overall emergency preparedness plan. Functional and effective emergency lighting can literally save lives in the case of any type of facility emergency. So, understanding codes and standards for emergency lighting is crucial to making sure emergency lighting is most effective. 
Read the full article here.
 
DS: NEMA recommends standby power measurement methods for LED drivers.

NEMA Publishes Recommendations For Standby Power Measurements For LED Drivers
Source: LightNOW

The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published a new white paper NEMA LS 20003-2021 Standby Power Measurements for LED Drivers—Recommended Allowances for Feature Sets Other Than Lighting, for LED driver manufacturers and testing laboratories. Developed alongside ANSI C82.16, the two documents should be read in conjunction with each other. NEMA Lighting Controls Technical Committee Chair Stephen Irving says the publication “strikes the right balance between minimizing standby power usage and ensuring that smart-enabled LED driver features remain available to customers. It can be used by manufacturers during the design of new products and by other standards-setting bodies when considering limits for LED driver standby power usage.”
Read the full post here.
 
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