The most energy-efficient fluorescent lamps saw a marked increase in sales during 4Q 2010, according to data from the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA), Rosslyn, Va. NEMA's T5 lamp index increased for the third consecutive quarter, registering a reading of 164.5 during 4Q 2010. Shipments of T5 lamps showed robust growth for the calendar year by advancing nearly 31.0 percent over 2009. T8 lamp shipments posted an annual increase of 6.7 percent despite a 2.2 percent dip during the fourth quarter. The T12 lamp index continued on a path of decline during 2010 decreasing 7.1 percent for the year as a whole compared to 2009. Fourth quarter shipments of T12 lamps were 9.7 percent below their level from Q3 2010.
The market shares for T5 and T12 shipments increased 1.0 percent each at the expense of T8s, which declined by 2.0 percentage points during the fourth quarter. For calendar year 2010, T5 and T8 shares increased reaching 8.8 and 63.3 percent of shipments, respectively. Meanwhile, the share of T12 shipments decreased 3.4 percentage points to 27.9 percent.
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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.