{"id":679,"date":"2017-02-14T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2017-02-14T07:40:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:40:01","slug":"a-new-lumen-definition-for-efficacy-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"A New Lumen Definition For Efficacy Regulations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledsmagazine.com\/articles\/print\/volume-13\/issue-9\/features\/regulations\/cri-should-never-be-used-in-efficacy-regulations-but-a-new-lumen-definition-should.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"\/\/aemstatic-ww1.azureedge.net\/content\/dam\/leds\/PrintArticles\/volume-13\/Issue-9\/1611LEDS_441.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Mark Rea and Jean Paul Freyssinier of the Lighting Research Center explain why lighting regulatory policies that combine efficacy and color rendering elements are fundamentally misguided, and how the industry could simply ensure that customers get both energy-efficient and quality light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledsmagazine.com\/articles\/print\/volume-13\/issue-9\/features\/regulations\/cri-should-never-be-used-in-efficacy-regulations-but-a-new-lumen-definition-should.html\">CRI should never be used in efficacy regulations but a new lumen definition should (MAGAZINE)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Rea and Jean Paul Freyssinier of the Lighting Research Center explain why lighting regulatory policies that combine efficacy and color rendering elements are fundamentally misguided, and how the industry could simply ensure that customers get both energy-efficient and quality light. Source: CRI should never be used in efficacy regulations but a new lumen definition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=679\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A New Lumen Definition For Efficacy Regulations?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-light","tag-color-rendering"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gZSw-aX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":198,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=198","url_meta":{"origin":679,"position":0},"title":"New LED Performance Measurements","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"July 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) has published two new documents related to measuring the performance of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs).\u00a0 The titles, as well as the aspects that are included and excluded, reveal the complexity of LEDs. 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For example, an Edison Price cut sheet says that lamp life\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lamps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lamps","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":622,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=622","url_meta":{"origin":679,"position":4},"title":"MIT Creates Incandescent Lamp As Efficient as LEDs","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"April 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Researchers at MIT and Purdue University have demonstrated an incandescent lamp with an efficacy of 6.6 percent, and with a potential efficacy as high as 40 percent. The paper was published in the April issue of Nature Nanotechnology. The demonstration compares favorably to current low efficacy fluorescent and LED lamps,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lamps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lamps","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1009,"url":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?p=1009","url_meta":{"origin":679,"position":5},"title":"White House to Relax Energy Efficiency Rules for Light Bulbs &#8211; The New York Times","author":"Jason Livingston","date":"September 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"In 2007 Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) with the goal of increasing energy efficiency across the economy. \u00a0Part of EISA has affected the lighting industry in the form of mandated efficacy of light sources. \u00a0The initial efficacy rules targeted A-Lamps (standard household light bulbs) and set\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Codes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Codes","link":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designinglight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}