DOE announces winners of lighting competition

The U.S. Department of Energy, the American Lighting Association (ALA), and the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE), announced the winners of the eighth-annual Lighting for Tomorrow competition at the 2010 ALA Annual Conference last week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Some familiar companies were amongst the winners, including Cree, Kichler Lighting Philips, Legrand, Leviton and Lutron.

The Lighting for Tomorrow competition aims to increase market acceptance and awareness of energy-efficient lighting by recognizing the best-designed energy-efficient lighting products available to the residential market. Design competitions are a key part of DOE's national strategy to accelerate solid-state lighting (SSL) technology advances from the laboratory to the marketplace.