Horticultural Lighting

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Manufacturing Services & Testing

STANDARDS | Market transformation and standards groups ally to evolve guidance for energy-efficient lighting products

DLC program director LIESEL WHITNEY-SCHULTE condenses the core industry initiatives in which the DLC participates to inform standards development and product assessment criteria...
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Horticultural Lighting

Sollum enriches its variable spectra lighting system for horticulture

April 18, 2024
Enhancements to “SUN as a Service” aim at improved electricity management and recipe optimization. They’ll even keep the lights on when the utility might want to stop the flow...
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Cree’s revenue rises for second consecutive quarter

April 15, 2024
After a string of declines, sales gained again. Meanwhile, the parent firm focuses increasingly on AI and high-performance computing.
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Horticultural Lighting

NASA taking LED horticulture to the moon

April 3, 2024
Lunar crops will include thale cress, possibly mizuna greens, and other tasty treats for astronauts to eat and for earthlings to study.
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Horticultural Lighting

Has the horticultural lighting drought run its course?

March 29, 2024
A flurry of announcements from Sollum and Signify suggests that growers are once again buying LED illumination for greenhouses and vertical farms.
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LAST WORD | DesignLights Consortium celebrates advances, looks ahead to achieving climate pledge targets

March 27, 2024
DLC executive TINA HALFPENNY summarizes historic gains in energy efficiency while revealing the consortium’s forward-looking initiatives and objectives.