Greenville, S.C., Feb. 7, 2012 – The comfort of tradition meets today’s simplified design trends in Progress Lighting’s 2012 decorative fixture offering.

“The calming elements of our latest introductions – such as the absence of ornamentation and reminiscent profiles – cater to the simplified lifestyle of today’s consumer,” said Libbe Milicia, director of decorative product development for Progress Lighting. “We have widened our offering to include highly
aesthetic collections suited for a variety of home décor preferences and budgets.”

In addition, Progress Lighting has expanded its current offering of decorative lighting collections.

Download the PDF with pictures and descriptions of all the new styles.

About Progress Lighting

Progress Lighting is committed to manufacturing award-winning energy efficient products while educating individuals on new options available in solid-state lighting. The lighting manufacturer also responds to the ever-changing needs of the lighting industry with extensive research and development programs that ensure high standards of quality and innovation for the home.

Headquartered in Greenville, S.C., Progress Lighting has four distribution centers located throughout the country that support one of the largest networks of electrical distributors and showrooms in the United States. Visit www.progresslighting.com, follow on Twitter @ProgressLtg and find on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ProgressLighting.

Coopersburg, PA – Saving energy is now easier than ever and can be done with style. Lighting control manufacturer cements, including working with all bulb types and ambient light detection, making it simpler than ever to make sensors a part of your home’s energy-saving strategy.

From the company that commercialized the use of dimmers in the home some 50 years ago comes another milestone– the introduction of proprietary sensing technology to ensure lights

stay on when a room is occupied, as well as ambient light detection that senses light in the room and only turns lights on when needed.

When used in the home, sensors can save up to 20%* lighting energy. Sensors are commonly used in kitchens, laundry rooms, kids’ rooms and garages.

The product offers numerous breakthroughs in this market, including:

For use with all bulb types and all load types

• works with incandescents, halogens, CFLs, LEDs, magnetic low-voltage, electronic low-voltage and linear fluorescents
• working with all these bulb types simplifies the selection and installation processes, as they’re installed the same way as a light switch or dimmer – no additional wiring required

Advanced XCTä Sensing Technology

• Lutron’s proprietary sensing technology offers reliable on/off performance up to 30 feet from the sensor
• eliminates background interference that could trigger the sensor to turn on when not needed
• detects fine motion to avoid having the lights inadvertently turn off

Ambient light detection

• detects natural light, so lights turn on only when needed, saving energy
• will learn your preferred light level for a specific room and turn on only if needed to get to this preferred level.

Sleek design complements a home’s décor

• overcomes common homeowner objection of unattractive design
• offers a clean look and feel and coordinates with other Lutron Maestro family products

Sensors can function in two modes:

Occupancy mode

• sensor automatically turns lights on when entering a room
• sensor automatically turns lights off when room is vacant
• great for laundry rooms, garages, kitchens

Vacancy mode

• manually turn lights on when entering a room and sensor automatically turns lights off when room is vacant
• great for bedrooms, kids’ rooms, rooms with pets

Two models of the Maestro occupancy/vacancy sensor switch are now available – one version for small rooms and one for large rooms. Sensors are priced at $29 and $41, respectively, and are available now at home improvement centers, lighting showrooms, electrical distributors and online.

About Lutron Electronics (www.lutron.com)

Lutron Electronics, headquartered in Coopersburg, Pennsylvania, designs and manufactures energy-saving lighting controls, automated window treatments and appliance modules for both residential and commercial applications. Its innovative, intuitive products can be used to control everything from a single light, to every light, shade and even stand-by power in a home or commercial building. Lutron products make any space more versatile, while enhancing ambiance, comfort and productivity. They also save energy and make light bulbs last longer, making them an eco-friendly addition to the home and workplace. Founded in 1961, Lutron estimates that the installed base of its products saves the nation nearly 10 billion kWh of electricity, or approximately $1 billion in utility costs per year. Lutron manufactures more than 16,000 energy-saving products, sold in more than 100 countries around the world.

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Corporate Contact                                                                           Agency Contact

Melissa Andresko                                                                            Meredith Kish

Senior Residential Public Relations Manager                     Senior Media Relations Manager

Lutron Electronics Co., Inc.                                                          Carmichael Lynch Spong

610.282.6440                                                                                      212.653.0655

mandresko@lutron.com                                                              meredith.kish@clynch.com

* Impact Analysis: 2005 Update to the California Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential and Nonresidential Buildings; California Energy Commission.

Washington, USA – The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that Philips Lighting North America has won the 60-watt replacement bulb category of the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize (L Prize) competition.  The Department of Energy’s L Prize challenged the lighting industry to develop high performance, energy-saving replacements for conventional light bulbs that will save American consumers and businesses money.  If every 60-watt incandescent bulb in the U.S. was replaced with the 10-watt L Prize winner, the nation would save about 35 terawatt-hours of electricity or $3.9 billion in one year and avoid 20 million metric tons of carbon emissions.

Submitted in 2009, the Philips LED bulb successfully completed 18 months of demanding field, lab, and product testing to meet the rigorous requirements of the L Prize competition – ensuring that performance, quality, lifetime, cost, and availability meet expectations for widespread adoption and mass manufacturing.
“The L Prize challenges the best and brightest minds in the U.S. lighting industry to make the technological leaps forward that can greatly reduce the money we spend to light our homes and businesses each year,” said Energy Secretary Steven Chu.  “Not only does the L Prize challenge innovative companies like Philips to make LED technology even more energy efficient, it also spurs the lighting industry to make LEDs affordable for American families.”

“We looked at the L Prize challenge as an opportunity to innovate and develop an energy efficient alternative to a product that has remained largely unchanged for over a century,” said Zia Eftekhar, CEO of Philips Lighting North America.  “The fact that we are the first and only company capable of  submitting a product and completing 18 months of rigorous testing not only underscores our commitment to innovation and quality, it highlights our ability to bring meaningful leading technologies into the mainstream.”

Launched in 2008, the Energy Department’s L Prize competition targets the 60-watt bulb because it is one of the most widely used types of light bulbs by consumers, representing roughly half of the domestic incandescent light bulb market.  Innovations in residential and commercial lighting products such as those encouraged by the L Prize expand the lighting choices available to consumers and support the Department’s efforts to reduce our Nation’s energy use, create manufacturing jobs for U.S. workers, and save money for American families and business owners.

The winning Philips product excelled through rigorous short-term and long-term performance testing carried out by independent laboratories and field assessments conducted with utilities and other partners. The product also performed well through a series of stress tests, in which the product was subjected to extreme conditions such as high and low temperatures, humidity, vibration, high and low voltage, and various electrical waveform distortions. The Philips L Prize winning product was also required to have a useful lifetime of more than 25,000 hours, compared with 1,000 to 3,000 hours for the products these highly efficient bulbs are intended to replace. The product uses solid-state lighting technology, which utilizes light-emitting diodes (LEDs) instead of electrical filaments, plasma, or gas, and has the potential to use far less energy than other lighting technologies.

As the winner, Philips will receive a $10 million cash prize as well as L Prize partner promotions and incentives. To date, 31 utilities and energy efficiency program partners stand ready to promote and develop markets for the winning product. The L Prize-winning 60-watt equivalent LED bulb from Phillips could arrive in stores as soon as early 2012.

Source: www.newscenter.philips.com