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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved the
American Clean Energy Leadership Act of 2009 by a bipartisan vote of
15-8 on June 18, following months of hearings and meetings with various
industries, including NEMA. The bill includes recommendations that the
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), Rosslyn, Va.,
provided when it testified before the committee In March. The
legislation now proceeds to the full Senate for consideration at a time
yet to be determined.
“I commend Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Ranking Member
Lisa Murkowski
(R-AK) for their work in hammering out a bipartisan bill that will
significantly improve our nation’s energy security, efficiency, and
competitiveness,” said NEMA President and CEO Evan R. Gaddis. “This
legislation is a true testament that we can find common ground and
advance policies that address our nation’s critical challenges.”
The bill includes key provisions that establish federal energy
efficiency standards for portable light fixtures (table and floor lamps)
and direct the Department of Energy (DOE) to set standards for certain
incandescent reflector lamps; establish a $350 million rebate program to
purchase and install NEMA Premium efficiency electric motors; conduct a
market assessment of electric motors, drives, controls, and
recommendations on improving deployment of these technologies; and
directs DOE to work with building code organizations (i.e., ASHRAE and
ICC) to develop residential and commercial building model codes that are
30 percent higher by 2010 and 50 percent higher after 2016For more
information on the bill’s provisions, check out NEMA’s
website and information on the website for the
American
Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).
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The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded funding for
photovoltaics research to more than 20 companies and universities. The
DOE’s Photovoltaic (PV) Supply Chain and Cross-Cutting Technologies
project identifies and accelerates the development of unique PV products
or processes that will impact the solar industry. DOE says non-solar
companies have many technologies and practices that are beneficial to
the PV industry, including PV processing steps to improve throughput,
yield, or diagnostics; material solutions to improve reliability or
enhance optical, thermal, or electrical performance; or system
components that streamline installation. The cost reduction as a result
of these improvements might be small in terms of a single product or
processing step, however the overall impact of these ideas become
significant when implemented across the PV industry.
The funded projects range from automated assembly to semiconductor
fabrication, and target manufacturing and product cost reduction with
the potential to have an impact within two to six years on a substantial
segment of the PV industry.
DOE will invest up to $22 million in these 24 new PV Supply
Chain and Cross-Cutting Technologies projects. The investment is
part of $117.6 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
funding, which was announced in May 2009.
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Servidyne, Atlanta, a building performance efficiency and real
estate company, helped Atlanta’s historic Hurt Building get LEED Gold
Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. It’s the first
commercial building in downtown Atlanta to achieve the LEED-EB Gold
Certification. Servidyne was selected in 2008 to manage the building’s
certification process and ensure that the operations and maintenance
practices would meet the stringent LEED standards. In this role,
Servidyne developed sustainability policies for the facility, including
standards for exterior building management, green cleaning, waste
management and sustainable purchasing practices. “The Hurt Building
was one of the very first skyscrapers ever built in Atlanta, and as such
is an important historical icon for the city,” said Alan R. Abrams,
Servidyne’s chairman, president and CEO. “This building is one of
downtown Atlanta’s only remaining structures from the early twentieth
century, and its classic architecture is truly breathtaking. For it now
to be recognized as a model of environmental stewardship makes it all
the more striking.”
To learn more about the project, click here.
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The Lighting Controls Association (LCA), Rosslyn, Va., has added a
new course on LED lighting control to the Association’s popular online
Education Express distance education courses. Education Express provides
in-depth education about lighting controls and controllable ballast
technology, application, system design and commissioning, as well as
meta-issues such as energy codes, daylighting and other trends. The
course is broken into four learning modules: fundamentals of how LEDs
work and are controlled (part 1); control of color LEDs (part 2);
control of white LEDs (part 3); and typical applications for LED control
(part 4). The course's goal is to provide a working understanding of
LEDs and methods for integrating them into modern lighting system
design. At the conclusion of the first three learning modules, an
optional online comprehension test is available, with automatic grading;
a passing grade enables the student to claim education credit. EE300:
Lighting Control of LEDs is registered with the National Council on
Quality in the Lighting Professions (NCQLP), which recognizes a total of
6.6 LEUs towards maintenance of Lighting Certified (LC) certification.
For more information about Lighting Controls Association’s Education
Express, visit the LCA web site at www.AboutLightingControls.org.
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This new line of Composite Street Lights conceals a generous hollow
weatherproof storage area inside the poles where WiFi antennas can be
mounted and protected out of sight. With Duratel Composite Street Light
Poles, property planners can get double duty out of any free-standing
street light fixture and build WiFi coverage capabilities into new
neighborhoods, shop/office centers, hotels/resorts, municipal parks or
for projects along the public way. Property owners can also realize a
new source of reliable rental income from leasing WiFi antenna space in
their outdoor lighting fixtures and WiFi coverage capabilities can also
greatly improve real property and parcel market value. Duratel
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The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has placed an order for
hundreds of solar-LED marine lanterns from Carmanah Technologies,
Victoria, British Columbia. Valued at approximately $600,000, this
latest shipment of 701-5 and 704-5 lanterns will replace older
incandescent lanterns, while providing an additional level of safety and
security for marine traffic and Gulf Coast communities during the
hurricane season.
Durable, reliable and easy to deploy on a moment's notice, Carmanah
solar-powered lanterns are widely used by coast guards and port
authorities around the world, both as permanent aids to navigation, and
for emergency preparedness and disaster-response applications. After
Hurricane Charley swept through Punta Gorda, Florida in 2004, Carmanah's
solar-powered beacons were the only visible points of light on an
otherwise blacked-out the river. When Hurricane Katrina struck New
Orleans the following year, Carmanah diverted its entire inventory and
production to help meet the immediate demand for stand-alone marine,
railway and aviation lights throughout the region. Carmanah
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Attendees at the recent American Institute of Architects (AIA)
national meeting April 30-May 2 in San Francisco saw yet another example
of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), where PV panels are
manufactured into traditional building products. At the AIA show,
SRS Energy showed off its Solé Power Tile that it’s marketing in
partnership with US Tile, the
largest manufacturer of clay tile in the United States. The company is
targeting the residential and comerical markets. According to a
CNET
article on the tiles, their cell efficiency is between 8 percent and
10 percent, which is lower than the 20 percent efficiency of
conventional silicon PV panels. The article also said homeowners with
Solé Power Tiles can get 860 kilowatt hours per square foot annually
living in an area with "5.8 peak sun hours" per day. For more
information click
here.
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Installed on a 120V or 277V AC circuit, Dual-Lite’s PGN high
performance LED sconce operates as an indoor or outdoor "normally on"
luminaire, and can be switched on or off with other luminaires as
required. With an externally supplied 6V through 12V DC power source,
the PGN also functions as an emergency lighting unit, eliminating the
need for additional single-purpose units. Combining a solid-state LED
light engine with a precision engineered optical system, the PGN
provides a uniform wide area illumination pattern, including a one foot
candle minimum 10 ft. X 10 ft. outdoor illuminated path, and a
one-footcandle average 29 ft. X 10 ft. outdoor illuminated path. These
emergency lighting patterns are achieved without "head aiming" or
further adjustments. The fixture consumes only 17W power in the
"normally on" mode. www.dual-lite.com
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Hubbell Outdoor Lighting’s recently upgraded Perimashield
wallpacks provide specifiers with an enhanced mid-point between
non-cutoff refractor wallpacks and full cutoff downlight wallpacks.The
Perimashield III family is designed for commercial or industrial
applications when lamp shielding is desired to eliminate the lamp
arc-tube visibility from a distance. Following EISA regulations from
the The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007), the 175W units
have been converted to 150W pulse-start, providing expanded life and
equal lumen performance while saving 25W of energy every burning hour.
www.hubbelloutdoor.com
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June 26
LED/OLED Training Session
Summer Lighting Market, Dallas; sponsored by www.waclighting.com; on Friday,
June 26th from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in showroom #3934 in the Dallas Trade
Mart. Click here to register: marketing@waclighting.com
July 13-15
SSL Market Introduction Workshop
Department of Energy Solid-State lighting program; Chicago; Registration
info
September 13–16, 2009
28th Annual Street and Area Lighting Conference;
Philadelphia;
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North
America (IES); 212-248-5000;
www.ies.org
October 19-22
Solar Power 2009
San Jose, Calif. Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA), 866-229-2386,
www.solarpowerconference.com
Nov. 11-13, 2009
GreenBuild International Conference and Expo
U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), Washington, D.C., 800-795-1747, info@greenbuildexpo.org; www.greenbuildexpo.org;
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