DC Lighting: Empowering Our Digital Future

	VOL 4 ISSUE 8 \| SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
Created in Partnership with LightShow West and LED Specifier Summit - Northwest

by Lois I. Hutchinson

LEDs are innately DC, so DC power for LED lighting is natural fit. But with a wide variety of system configurations and lack of standards - or is it too many standards? - DC lighting faces formidable challenges from 100 years of AC infrastructure. Even where system intelligence benefits energy managers and the grid, it will likely take another decade for the advantages of DC-powered lighting and appliances to capture the construction industry.

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LIGHTING INSIDER BLOG

by Guest Blogger
MINDY IANNELLO
IES District 5 Chair

There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be a Part of the IES

"There has never been a better time to be a part of the IES..." that was IES President Lance Eaton's Opening remarks at the IES Annual Conference Held in Boston, MA on August 8-11, 2018. This remark alone set a tone for a very positive multiple day event in which multiple speakers discussed the plan that IES set in motion back in 2014 for the future of IES. Since IES was founded in 1906 the Industry has never moved forward more quickly and as Lance quoted from Tony Fadell (Co-Creator of the Apple iPod) "today is the slowest we will ever go". This could not be any more true.

HIGHLIGHTS

Lumen West Gala Honors Lighting Designers of Today and Tomorrow

Contributed by
IES Los Angeles

Nearly 500 lighting professionals and guests flocked to the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles for the glitzy 2018 Lumen West Awards gala on June 23, 2018. The program, hosted by the Illuminating Engineering Society Los Angeles Section (IESLA), celebrated excellence in lighting design today and encouraged the next generation of lighting designers with a record-breaking $36,000 in scholarships awarded. In addition, individuals and firms were recognized for their service to IESLA and the local lighting community.

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