In the June, 2010 issue of Buildings magazine a feature article listed “Top 81 Money-Saving Products” (http://www.buildings.com/Magazine/ArticleDetails/tabid/3413/ArticleID/9937/Default.aspx ). While many of these products have nothing to do with the electrical industry, many energy-efficient green solutions made the list. Here are a few of the products your company might be looking at if you don’t already offer them to your customers:

1. Philips offers the Wide-Lite HIBRED lighting system which combines either a traditional HID or Induction lamp lighting source -- which provides primary illumination -- integrated with a built-in LED array in the mounting arm that switches on during low traffic off hours. The company claims the HIBRED is the industry’s first such combination product.
   http://www.wide-lite.com/products.php?lang=en&id_catp=1&id_cat=1&id_subcat=0&id_product_line=0&id_product=38
   
   
2. The article selected OSRAM SYLVANIA’s Post Top Fixture Retrofit Kit which is designed to convert existing street lighting from HID to energy-efficient LED lighting. The product can reduce each fixture’s energy consumption by more than 100W by allowing installation of high-efficiency 40W LED bulbs without replacing the entire fixture, and without any external modification to the existing fixture.
   http://www.sylvania.com/  
   
   
3. Web-Mon is an easy-to-use web-enabled energy monitor from E-Mon that uses a standard web browser without additional software or programming to deliver a visual dashboard representing real-time meter data usage, including electrical consumption and carbon footprint estimates for previous periods of 7, 30 or 365 days. Web-Mon can interface with up to 24 separate metering points.
   http://www.emon.com/products_webmon.html
   
   
4. The Convia-enabled Wiremold system available from Convia or Wiremold combines modular plug-n-play power delivery wiring for both plug load and lighting applications, including floor boxes, and poke-thru devices from Wiremold combined with system intelligence from Convia. The LEED-qualified system utilizes the Walerflex® wiring system and includes flexible pathways and energy controls that can monitor energy usage in real time, dynamically sheds the loads on demand, and archives the information.
   http://www.legrand.us/Wiremold/Energy-Management-Systems/Convia-enabled-Wiremold-System/CeW.aspx
   
   
5. Also mentioned is the Celesta GL8206 Dimmable Replacement LED Lamp available from Bluestone Lighting. The lighting product can replace standard E26-based CFL and incandescent bulbs with an LED light source – without retrofitting. Company claims the product is compatible with most dimmers and consumes only 8W while providing light output that is equivalent to a 60W incandescent bulb. The combination should provide “savings of nearly $300 (at 10 cents per kWh) over the 50,000-hour rated life.
   http://www.bluestonelighting.com/gen00.htm
   
   
6. Another listed green lighting product is actually non-electric thanks to its use of photoluminescent design. GloBrite® Ec Exit Signs by Jessup Manufacturing absorb and store ambient light eliminating maintenance and energy consumption. The company claims the exit lights to be the only “non-radioactive, zero energy and zero maintenance” emergency exit signage. During a blackout or loss of light the product’s stored energy makes the exit sign immediately visible, while requiring no maintenance for 25 years. http://www.jessupmfg.com/updates/featured_product.php        

Next week, for those of you not taking vacation time, we’ll cover a few more Green Innovations and Trends.