Tweet Until very recently, unless one exhibited a flagrant disregard of electricity bills, fluorescent was the only viable choice for the workplace, and the perception of fluorescent lights as flickering, green-tinged “sick building syndrome”-inducing tubular horrors is well out of date. Magnetic control gear (the means of regulating the flow of current through the tube) | Read More
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The Future of the Fluorescent Linear
Tweet The T12 lamp has been the most widely used fluorescent unit in commercial and institutional buildings over the past 60 years. Facilities began by replacing T12s with T8 lamps, and now the newest T5 technology is making a true impact on the market (the user needs only one T5 Retrofit Kit to replace two | Read More
Better Buildings Challenge Will Help Energy Costs, Create Jobs
Tweet On June 30th, the Department of Energy announced the Better Buildings Challenge, a public-private partnership that seeks large-scale commitments and provide financing and technical assistance for retrofitting thousands of commercial buildings. The Challenge is an offspring of the Obama Administration’s Better Buildings Initiative, which was introduced in February 2011 to encourage private-sector investment in energy-efficient commercial | Read More
EcoPinion Survey: Americans Support Bulb Phase Out
Tweet Are Americans installing more energy efficient lighting in their homes? What do they like or dislike about CFLs and LEDs compared to traditional bulbs? Do Americans know about the mandate for higher efficiency standards, and do they think that is a good idea? Strategic marketing agency EcoAlign took the pulse of 1,000 Americans on those | Read More
Powering Down Fluorescent Lamp Myths
Tweet A popular misconception can be traced back to older generations of fluorescent lamps and ballasts that, when turned on, the lamps went through a starting cycle that included flickering for several seconds before reaching full operating brightness. Users came to believe that while these lamps were flickering, they were using high levels of energy- | Read More
Strategies For Successful Retrofits
Tweet Lighting systems in new commercial and institutional facilities account for 25-30 percent of the building’s total electricity use. Energy use by lighting systems in older facilities that have not been upgraded in the past 15-20 years is even higher — typically, 40 percent of total electricity use. According to the Department of Energy, however, | Read More
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