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Title 24: Residential Lighting Class Presentations

This presentation includes best practices in residential lighting design to comply with California's 2022 Title 24, Part 6 Building Energy Efficiency Standards.

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Title 24: Office Lighting Class Presentations

This presentation includes best practices in nonresidential lighting design to comply with California's 2022 Title 24, Part 6 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, with specific examples included for office lighting projects.

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LD+A Research Matters: Residential Energy & Automation Systems

The California Lighting Technology Center is excited to kick off research into today's Residential Energy & Automation (REA) Systems in collaboration with California's statewide electric emerging technologies program, CalNEXT.

REA systems combine home-energy monitoring features with automated appliance management and control of distributed energy resources (DER) such as electric vehicle (EV) chargers, rooftop solar panels, and stationary battery energy storage (BES).

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Q+A with Associate Director Jae Yong Suk

Looking to get to know CLTC's new Associate Director Jae Yong Suk?

LD+A recently published their Q+A column where Professor Suk offers his insights in response to LD+A's questions.

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LD+A Research Matters: Performance Evaluation of a Solar Tracking Lighting System

CLTC recently partnered with the California Energy Commission, Sonoma Clean Power Authority, and Frontier Energy Inc. to evaluate opportunities in emerging daylighting technologies. One such technology is a solar-tracking lighting system, which delivers daylight via optical fibers to core building areas that otherwise do not have access to daylight.

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Advanced Lighting Control Systems Bench Testing - Plug Load Controls

Advanced Lighting Control Systems (ALCS) Bench Testing – Plug Load Controls aims to revisit and refine the technology validation program developed in Phase I. ALCS Bench Testing - Plug Load Controls focuses on the plug load specific additions that are available with select ALCS and evaluates whether these advanced plug loads controllers (APLC) can accurately report the energy use of the connected plug loads consistent with utility requirements/needs.

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LD+A Research Matters: Integral Metering & Reporting Capabilities of Networked Lighting Controls

Networked lighting control (NLC) systems have proven they can successfully reduce demand and save energy in real-world applications through a combination of basic and advanced control strategies. However, the potential of NLCs’ integral metering and reporting capabilities to provide cost effective energy-use data for incentive programs and outcome-based code opportunities has not been fully realized. This is, in part, due to the variety of metering and reporting approaches used by today’s NLCs.