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The California Lighting Technology Center’s Nonresidential Lighting and Electrical Power Distribution Guide assists builders and lighting industry professionals in navigating the nonresidential lighting and electrical power distribution portions of California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Title 24, Part 6 or Energy Code). The 2022 iteration of the Energy Code took effect on January 1, 2023. 

California’s Energy Code, also known as Title 24, is updated every three years to follow the requirements established by the Warren-Alquist State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Act that was signed into law in response to the energy crisis of the early 1970s during Ronald Reagan’s second term as California’s governor.

The California Lighting Technology Center, in collaboration with the California Energy Commission, conducted research to refine and deploy technology strategies that integrate and optimize automated controls for heating, ventilating and air conditioning, electric lighting, and dynamic fenestration (window and door) systems. Project objectives were:

1. Refine and publish an integrated building control system specification for commercial applications including necessary hardware and software components.

Researchers at the California Lighting Technology Center are addressing the integration and demonstration of exterior lighting systems with on-board solar generation, battery storage and advanced controls with funding provided by the California Energy Commission’s EPIC program. In other words, “smart and clean” exterior lighting systems.

CLTC's Associate Director Jae Yong Suk provides insight to answer the question posed by CBS News:

'What do we know about the laser beam at Golden 1 Center?'

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/what-we-know-about-the-laser-beam-at-golden-1-center/

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

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.

Episode 290 of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast features CLTC Director Michael Siminovitch.

https://getagriponlighting.com/episode-290-lighting-needs-another-lever-michael-siminovitch