Lighting Needs Another Lever | Get a Grip on Lighting Podcast
12/05/2022
Episode 290 of the Get a Grip on Lighting podcast features CLTC Director Michael Siminovitch.
https://getagriponlighting.com/episode-290-lighting-needs-another-lever-...
Publications
LD+A Research Matters: Residential Energy & Automation Systems
11/08/2022
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).
Q+A with Associate Director Jae Yong Suk
08/12/2022
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.
LD+A Research Matters: Performance Evaluation of a Solar Tracking Lighting System
06/07/2022
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.
LD+A Research Matters: Integral Metering & Reporting Capabilities of Networked Lighting Controls
03/29/2022
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.
Adaptive Lighting in Outdoor Security Applications
11/16/2021
Today, adaptive lighting, which is lighting controlled by occupancy sensors or schedules that adjust light levels based on actual site conditions, is considered best practice for numerous outdoor applications. Adaptive lighting has been adopted as part of some commercial energy standards and the strategy is now included in many outdoor lighting specifications and design guides. Outdoor areas with heightened security requirements, however, are often excluded from adaptive lighting control requirements and these areas remain lit with high, uniform levels of static illumination.
LD+A Research Matters: A New R&D Center for Mexico's Lighting Industry
08/09/2021
In the fall of 2017, the Mexican Ministry of Energy awarded funding to the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara in collaboration with the University of California Davis to establish a lighting technology and design research center known as the Centro de Tecnología en Iluminación (CTI). This is a multi-year, public-private investment focused on addressing growing climate change concerns through translational research committed to clean energy and sustainability in Mexico.
LD+A Research Matters: Outcome-Based Codes Offer a New Path
05/18/2021
Outcome-based energy codes are relatively new. They incorporate strategies that quantify a building’s actual energy performance over time to demonstrate code compliance. The term "outcome-based" refers to the fact that compliance is linked with a building’s actual energy “outcome” which may be measured post-occupancy.