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members’ interests has led to a number of
successes in influencing policies. A recent
example was in California when the state re-
vised their Title 24 bill, otherwise known as
the Residential Energy Code. “We were fully
involved with that. We made comments and
we went to Sacramento and testified,” he
says.
As part of that energy code, there is a new
proposal that will mandate specifications for
a new, high efficiency screw-in LED light
bulb. California wants to increase the num-
ber of homes using energy-efficient lighting,
and the association will be making recom-
mendations to the state government on the
required specifications.
“To them that means they want to take the
existing sockets everybody has in their homes
and make them more energy-efficient,” he
says. “But they’ve been unable to do that be-
cause the penetration rate of energy-efficient
products in California, and throughout the
U.S., is only 20 to 30 percent.”
LIGHTING FOR TOMORROW
The other key focus forThe American Light-
ing Association is their educational train-
ing program. As members complete certain
tasks, they earn advanced designation titles,
including Lighting Associate (LA), Lighting
Specialist (LS), Certified Lighting Manufac-
turers’ Representative (CLMR) and Certi-
fied Lighting Consultant (CLC®).
The association also hosts an annual con-
ference attended by more than 500 of the
residential lighting industry’s leaders. It is
here they annually award winning lighting
fixtures through a program called Lighting