Get Your Money Back: An Update on Lighting Rebates
In the commercial sector, cash rebates from utilities and energy-efficiency organizations remain a popular incentive for lighting upgrades. A rebate may be prescriptive, available through [...]
EPA Issues Directive on LED and Legacy Lamp Verification Testing for Energy Star
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a guidance document intended to instruct certification bodies (CBs) in their implementation of verification testing of lamps, including [...]
EPA Publishes the Final Draft of the Energy Star Lamps Specification
Intended to become effective September 1, 2014, the final draft of the Lamps V1.0 specification includes refinement of dimming requirements and other minor changes from draft 4 that was recently [...]
Buying Bulbs, Saving for Our Future
By Monique O’Grady This year’s holiday electric bill will probably be a belated gift. This Department of Energy stat shows why: the estimated electricity cost to light a 6-foot tree with [...]
