New GE Lighting Dimming Controller Helps Light Streets for Less
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio -- -- Faced with shrinking budgets, cities and states across the nation are being challenged to curb costs. A new GE Lighting system is helping meet this charge with a dimming system ...
How to Buy a Better Lightbulb
Contrary to rumor, the incandescent lightbulb is not going away--at least not right away. New U.S. regulations, starting January 1, cap energy consumption of a roughly 1,600-lumen bulb (equivalent to a standard 100-watt incandescent bulb) at 72 watts--which means the workhorse of home lighting will have to become about 30 percent more efficient overnight. The law will expand in the next two ...
Watts up
How many electricity consumers does it take to change a light bulb?That one’s easy: all of them.Naperville’s Smart Grid Initiative isn’t the only current event affecting the way electrical power is used in the city. The way we buy, use and even dispose of light bulbs is changing, too.On New Year’s Day, the light-bulb business felt the first impact of the Energy Independence and Security Act ...
Changes in law makes way for energy-efficient light bulbs
How many electricity consumers does it take to change a light bulb?That one’s easy: all of them.Naperville’s Smart Grid Initiative isn’t the only current event affecting the way electrical power is used in the city. The way we buy, use and even dispose of light bulbs is changing, too.On New Year’s Day, the light-bulb business felt the first impact of the Energy Independence and Security Act ...
