While in the past LEDs were mainly used for exit signs, traffic lights, and spotlights, today many LED lamps are omnidirectional and are the ideal energy-efficient and environmentally friendly lighting solution for decorative, ambient and general lighting applications.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that the total electricity consumed for lighting by the commercial sector in 2010, including commercial and industrial buildings and public streets and highway lighting, was 300 billion kilowatt hours (kWh). This figure amounts to about 22 percent of commercial sector electricity consumption, and about 8 percent of the total U.S. electricity consumption.

The Bottom Line — A hypothetical facility switches to LED lighting and saves $216,268 over the lifetime of the LED fixture

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Bolstering a reputation for high quality, energy efficient commercial lighting, MaxLite™ announces that its full cutoff LED Wall Packs, from 20 watts to 70 watts, have been approved by the DesignLights™ Consortium (DLC) and are now included in its Qualified Products List (QPL). The DLC was established to ensure that high quality, energy efficient lighting designs are used in all commercial lighting installations, which includes categories that are not addressed by ENERGY STAR.


“We are proud to announce that our full cutoff LED Wall Packs have been added to the DLC’s prestigious Qualified Product List,” said MaxLite’s National Product Marketing Manager Pat Treadway. “This accomplishment highlights MaxLite’s extensive efforts to develop highly regarded, energy efficient lighting for a variety of commercial and institutional lighting.”


The leading, global manufacturer and marketer of energy efficient luminaires and lamps’ line of DLC-approved full cutoff Wall Packs were designed and engineered as maintenance free, energy efficient alternatives to traditional fluorescent and HID fixtures. MaxLite’s full cutoff LED Wall Packs are ideal for outdoor lumination at hotels, garages, commercial buildings, public spaces, schools and universities, and hospitals.

MaxLite’s high performance and optimized optics improve lighting quality by delivering a wide uniformed beam spread to eliminate cave-like appearances, which are commonplace in most commercial and industrial facilities. The LED Wall Packs are perfect in alternatives to high/low pressure sodium, metal halide, fluorescent, induction lighting, and other types of lighting fixtures.


MaxLite’s Wall Packs feature an LED module with aluminum heat sink to ensure thermal management, and uses directional settings to maintain optimal light levels. The Class 2 integral LED driver is UL-listed. The fixtures maximize brightness (up to 4200 lumens), efficacy and lifetime (up to 50,000 hours or 13 years). With an energy savings of 50 percent or higher and reduced maintenance, ROI is achieved within approximately two years. The luminaires are constructed without any mercury or harmful materials, and do not emit UV rays.


The LED Wall Packs, which are universal and operate on 120- to 277‐volt electrical systems, feature a heavy-duty cast aluminum one-piece housing that is polyester coated, protected from rust and corrosion, and sealed to be free of dirt and bugs, and crafted with shatterproof glass.

Offered in a handsome, polyester-coated dark bronze finish and a new textured white finish, the fixtures are occupancy or dusk-to-dawn sensor compatible, and provide multiple knockouts for mounting convenience. Mounting options include surface mounts, with multiple knockouts available for installing convenience. The fixtures include:

• The full cutoff MLSWP20LED50DS uses 20 watts, delivers 1400 lumens and has a 5000K-color temperature. The fixture is 12.6 inches long, 11.26 inches wide and 9 inches tall. This luminaire replaces a metal halide fixture up to 80 watts.

• The full cutoff MLSWP30LED50DS uses 30 watts and delivers 2400 lumens, with a 5000K-color temperature. The fixture is 12.6 inches long, 11.26 inches wide and 9 inches tall. This luminaire replaces a metal halide fixture up to 100 watts.

• The full cutoff MLLWP40LED50DS uses 40 watts, delivers 3050 lumens and has a 5000K-color temperature. The fixture is 16.7 inches long, 13.7 inches wide and 9 inches tall. This luminaire replaces a metal halide fixture up to 175 watts.

• The full cutoff MLLWP70LED50DS uses 70 watts and delivers 4400 lumens, with a 5000K-color temperature. The fixture is 16.9 inches long, 13.6 inches wide and 9 inches tall. This luminaire replaces a metal halide fixture up to 250 watts.

IES LM79 and LM80 reports are available. All are backed by a five‐year limited warranty.

About the DesignLights Consortium: The DesignLights™ Consortium (DLC) is a collaboration of utility companies and regional energy efficiency organizations that is committed to raising awareness of the benefits of efficient lighting in commercial buildings. The DLC helps builders, architects, designers, and commercial property owners to implement improved design practices in all areas of the commercial lighting market while ensuring that high-quality, energy-efficient lighting design becomes commonplace in all lighting installations.

When TekLinks featured Edge Lit LED Flat Panels by MaxLite in its new data center, their executives did not anticipate the impressive reaction received from clients, employees and strategic partners who toured their new facility.
TekLinks performs colocation, hosted and managed services, network security, data storage, IP telephony, and IT engineering services to businesses throughout the southeastern region of the United States.
MaxLite, a leading, global manufacturer and marketer of energy efficient luminaires and lamps, manufactured 120 2’x2’ Edge Lit LED Flat Panels that were installed by Birmingham-based Mayer Electric Supply in TekLinks’ main hallway and electrical room. The Flat Panels illuminate the state-of-the-art high-density equipment that powers public and private cloud systems and provides multiple levels of security, uninterruptible power, fire suppression and around-the-clock monitoring and management capabilities, with brilliance and precision to allow their engineers to view vital data where ample light is required.

Part of the FlatMax family of products, the LED Flat Panels create a cool industrial look, while also illuminating equipment and racks. This enables TekLinks’ engineers to have full visibility throughout the aisles, on the racks and backs of systems.

"Colleagues and clients are overwhelmed when they see our fixtures,” said Ed McLain, Director of Operations for TekLinks. “When they walk into the hallway, they just say, ‘Wow’! Everyone that comes into the building is greatly impressed with the color of the light and the look. When our management team compared MaxLite's fixtures to others, MaxLite was the unanimous choice. MaxLite LED Panels combined dimmability, long lasting life and energy efficiency with high quality shadow-free lighting and excellent color quality.”

The state-of-the-art data facility was built utilizing some of the most current green approaches available today. MaxLite’s energy efficient LED Flat Panels follow that approach, with high performance and a potential life of 50,000 hours – at L70 standards – for more than 13 years of long life, based on 10 hours of use per day. This delivers a significant reduction in energy consumption, costs and maintenance. The panels are highly compatible with the center’s control systems and are programmable, so they can be switched on/off and even dimmed to meet user preferences. Perfectly suited for high-tech data centers, the LED Flat Panels are RoHS compliant and constructed without carbon emission, heat, UV or IR radiation or hazardous materials.

“In the past few years, we have seen an unprecedented demand for data space, and this facility allows us to continue to meet the needs of our clients,” said Don Monistere, Vice President of Sales at TekLinks. “In addition to providing a data center for clients, this new space allows TekLinks to increase our offerings around managed services and continue to be an industry leader in all cloud computing infrastructures, including public, private, and hybrid clouds, in a high density computing environment.”

The data center space requires controlled temperature and humidity levels, made possible by redundant HVAC systems that maintain the appropriate temperature and humidity levels in the data centers, to keep equipment performing at the optimal level; the LED Panels operate at a cool temperature without emitting heat.

TekLinks’ executives said they are so pleased with the light output, energy efficiency and extraordinary look of the lighting fixtures, that they plan on specifying more units in the Hattiesburg, Mississippi facility, as well as in the current headquarters and the new building, as they continue to expand.

“Our customer came to us about TekLinks and advised that they needed a state-of-the-art lighting system for an old building that they were purchasing,” said Paul Berkessel, a MaxLite sales representative. “The customer loved our demo of the LED Flat Panel and thought it would be a great fit. TekLinks executives really liked the solid look and the color rendering.”

MaxLite’s LED Edge Lit Flat Panels deliver dimmable, energy efficient, high quality lighting with even, shadow-free distribution, and an excellent 85 CRI (Color Rendering Index). Tied together in a grid, the LED panels are pre-programmed to operate effectively within TekLinks’ building control system. The new luminaires project a high level of clean, bright and white light. The fixtures create a cool, contemporary environment with pleasing aesthetics. Occupancy sensors allow fixtures to illuminate as employees walk through different areas.

The fixtures are made from the 20-gauge die-formed steel that is galvanized. It is also post-painted with white baked-on enamel that helps to ensure a long life. The T5 fixtures have a highly polished and 90% improved reflector that provides the maximum photometric efficiency and lumen output.

The occupancy sensors come pre-installed with the HighBay lighting fixtures. This allows users to save on cost during installation. The sensors can be fixed through knockouts located at the ends of the fixture. These sensors switch on the light automatically when they detect someone entering a certain area or a room. They are programmable and have time delays that control the switching-on and switching-off of the light.

MaxLite is offering the T5 HighBay Luminaires in two different configurations - 4 and 6-lamp. They can be operated on both the 120 V as well as the 277 V systems. The company is providing a 3-wire, 10' cord with a plug for the fixture. The fixtures have sufficient slots for chains and hooks.

The T5 HighBay Luminaires have a universal voltage ballast that can be easily accessed through a hinged door. The fixture need not be taken down. The ballast and the fixture have Quick Connects that speed up the maintenance and installation. MaxLite offers wire guards, door frames and lenses as accessories for the luminaires that have "Easy Lock" catches.

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I was excited to learn this week that some bulbs last "forever." Notice the pesky quotes around the word forever, which no doubt signals a fly in the ointment? In this case, forever means approximately 45.6 years, assuming the bulb burns for three hours each day (comes out to about 50,000 hours if you’ve been following along with your calculator). But since the average person moves 11.6 times in his or her lifetime, 45.6 years for a bulb is an eternity.

So what is this magical bulb? Remarkably, it’s nothing more than a standard LED replacement bulb. Consumer Reports recently released its 2011 study on CFL and LED bulbs, and the LED scored remarkably well. These energy-efficient light bulbs last anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 hours, consume a lot less energy than the old familiar incandescent (which is basically a heat source that gives off light as a byproduct), and can save consumers a load of cash over the life of the bulb.

I should hasten to add, however, that LED bulbs don’t come cheap. LED bulbs range from about $20 to $40 or more each. Considering that you can buy an incandescent bulb for less than 50 cents apiece, $40 for an LED looks alarming high. And the fact is it takes on average of about four to 10 years to recoup the cost of an LED through lower energy bills and fewer bulb replacements. In contrast, you break even on a CFL in about a year.

But if you are a long-term investor, LED bulbs are great way to save money. Consumer Reports estimates that you can save between “$65 and $400 over the 18- to 46-year life of the LED compared with an incandescent bulb.” Just remember to take the LED bulbs with you when you move!

Source: US News and World Reports

Building on the success of the company's Edge-Lit LED Panels, MaxLite(TM) launches high performance, energy efficient Direct-Lit LED Flat Panels that are designed to replace fluorescent lighting fixtures. The Direct-Lit LED Flat Panels are suitable for offices, schools, libraries, hospitals, medical facilities and other commercial and institutional applications. MaxLite is a leading, global manufacturer and marketer of energy efficient luminaires and lamps.

The Direct-Lit LED Flat Panels are designed for installation into T-bar grid ("drop") ceilings. Fully dimmable and compatible with building controls, motion sensors, timers and daylight harvesting systems, the luminaires produce an even, consistent shadow-free illumination with minimal glare. The energy efficient LED Panels deliver high lumen output and excellent color rendering (Color Rendering Index of 85) while minimizing maintenance time and costs.

Uniformed color consistency is ensured by proprietary LED binning. The panels are offered in a warm white 3500K model and the cool white 5000K. With a power factor of over 98 percent, the panels operate on 120v-277v systems, are produced without mercury or other hazardous materials, and offer a long potential life of 50,000 hours. All are backed by a five-year warranty.

"Our Direct-Lit Flat Panel LEDs use up to 35 percent less energy than our popular Edge-Lit LED Panels," explains MaxLite's National Product Marketing Manager Pat Treadway. "These new luminaires provide optimal direct lighting replacements for fluorescent fixtures in a broad range of commercial and institutional task lighting applications."

The housings and LED back panels are constructed of aluminum that provides heat sink and thermal control capabilities. The translucent lens is crafted of white polycarbonate and the fixture's compact profile is just three inches long, including the control box. Modular construction enables easy replacement. 

LED flat panels are operated using a standard integrated driver, or a remote driver for MRI models (constructed of non ferrous material), allowing for an installation depth of just two inches. With a Master/Satellite switch on the back, one fixture should be switched to Master while the others should be switched to Satellite. When all units are joined together (using supplied standard RJ25 phone cords and jacks), one Master Unit will control up to 10 panels in each room. The LED Panels are dimmable and can be controlled with four types of input signals: 0-10V; Simple Dimming; IR Remote; and a DMX 512.

Direct-Lit LED 1'X4' Flat Panels (11.88 inches wide, 47.40 inches long and 3 inches in depth) utilize just 45 watts and are available in a color temperature of 3500K or 5000K.

Direct-Lit LED 2'X2' Flat Panels (23.75 inches wide, 23.75 long and 3 inches in depth) utilize 45 watts with a color temperature of 3500K or 5000K. A 60-watt model is available with a 3500K or 5000K color temperature. 

Direct-Lit LED 2'X4' Flat Panels (23.75 inches wide, 47.40 inches long and 3 inches in depth) utilize 60 watts and are available in a color temperature of 3500K or 5000K.

Accessories include Cable Hanging Kits, Surface Mounting Kits and Donn Fineline System adapters. A surface mounting kit with a white finish is also offered with 2'X2' Flat Panel. The Emergency backup units operate at 30 percent output for up to 90 minutes when power to the fixtures is cut off.

The LED Flat Panels are ET- and cETL-certified and RoHS-compliant.

LM79 data is available, along with IES files and photometrics. Lighting layouts are available upon request.

Imagine sticking a few dozen notebook computer displays up into the ceiling to replace the fluorescent tube bulbs that are already there, and you get an idea of how MaxLite’s Direct-Lit LED Flat Panels might look.

The panels (pictured) are designed to work within a typical drop ceiling, where they can be retrofitted to work with existing building controls, motion sensors, timers and daylight harvesting systems. MaxLite offers a five-year warranty on the technology, which is rated to last up to five hours. The lights are supposed to operate with a color rendering index of 85, and they come in warm white and cool white models (color temperature of 3500K or 5000K). They are approximately 35 percent more energy-efficient than the company’s existing edge-lit LED panel technology.

The Direct-Lit LED Flat Panels are available in three different sizes:

• 1 foot by 4 feet (45 watts)
  
• 2 feet by 2 feet (45 watts or 60 watts)
• 2 feet by 4 feet (60 watts)

The price of fluorescent light bulbs is on the way up.

And as with many economic situations these days, at least part of the reason lies in China.

The Chinese have reduced their exports of rare earth elements, while global demand for them is soaring.

Result: rising prices for products, including fluorescent light bulbs, that use the exotically named elements.

Despite their categorization, rare earth metals are not rare, the U.S. Department of Energy said. But though they are found in many countries — including the U.S., Canada and Australia — China produces 97 percent of the world's rare earth elements, a key component in many advanced technologies.

Rare earth elements are used in computer memory systems, DVDs, rechargeable batteries, cellphones, car catalytic converters, magnets — and fluorescent lighting.

Rare earth elements contain phosphors, substances that radiate visible light when energized. In a fluorescent bulb, electricity excites mercury vapor inside a tube, causing it to emit ultraviolet rays. The ultraviolet radiation in turn excites the phosphor compound coating the inside of the tube to produce visible light.

For instance, manufacturer Osram Sylvania told dealers that it was raising the previously announced 10 percent price increase effective Sept. 1 on all its fluorescent lamps to an overall average increase of 25 percent, which will go into effect Aug. 1.

Price increases will vary by the specific type of fluorescent product, Osram Sylvania said, but the company said it intends to continue raising prices monthly until the global rare earth oxide market stabilizes.

And General Electric said it would raise its fluorescent bulb prices 5 percent on Aug. 1.

How the tightening of the international rare earth market will affect the average consumer is not clear yet.

"It is hard to say about potential long-term impacts until it becomes clear if this is or is not a temporary price blip," said Al Christopher, director of the state's Energy Division with the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy.

Lighting supplier Satco Products Inc. of Brentwood, N.Y., told distributors that it "can no longer support any previously quoted job pricing or ongoing contract pricing" for four common types of fluorescent bulbs.

Satco said the cost of tri-phosphorous coatings used in the manufacturing of fluorescent and compact fluorescent lamps has increased nearly 600 percent during the past four months.

Fluorescent bulbs can be five to 10 times — or higher — pricier than comparable incandescent bulbs, but the cost-effective fluorescents use only a quarter of the energy of standard incandescent bulbs and last up to 10 times longer.

"We've pretty much gone exclusively to them," said Brian J. Ohlinger, Virginia Commonwealth University's associate vice president for facilities management. "With the fluorescents, we're buying a lot fewer because they last so much longer" compared with incandescent lights.

The cost of the bulb is less important than the cost of replacing burned-out lights, Ohlinger said, and the cost of the energy to run them.

"When you've got a $7.5 million (annual) electric bill," he said, "you're looking at all those alternatives."

This month, China said it was relaxing export curbs for rare earth elements, returning to near-2010 levels, but some of the Asian country's trading partners said the change did not ensure stable supplies.

In Washington, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said China was not helpful because Beijing was expanding the scope of products covered by its export quota, which for 2011 represented a 40 percent decrease from 2009.

Rare earth elements also are necessary for the production of green technologies, such as electric and hybrid vehicle motors, and wind turbines, as well as energy-efficient fluorescent light bulbs.

"The bigger story is how the control of these rare earth elements collides with our move toward clean energy," said Christopher J. Singleton, managing director of Kanawha Capital Management LLC in Henrico County.

Although the United States is seeking alternative sources for rare earths, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said it might take up to 15 years before the U.S. is able to rebuild its own sourced rare earth supply chain.

"As these prices of rare earth elements have soared," said research analyst Tim Hayes with Davenport and Co. LLC in Richmond, "it will eventually lead to more exploration in other parts of the world, to mine and produce the rare earth elements."

And that could drive prices down again, he said.

In the beginning — or at least from 1878 to 1880 — Thomas Edison labored to create better, more efficient light. At the time, incandescent lamps were too bright for small spaces. They use electricity to heat the filament, or a thin strip of metal, until it glows. Edison is said to have tested thousands of theories to develop an efficient incandescent lamp.

"The electric light has caused me the greatest amount of study and has required the most elaborate experiments," Edison wrote. "I was never myself discouraged or inclined to be hopeless of success. I cannot say the same for all my associates."

Modern researchers likely can relate to the plight of Edison and his associates as they tackle the task of improving alternatives to the incandescent bulbs Americans have used since the 19th century.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, lighting accounts for 15 percent of the average electricity bill. Upgrading 15 traditional incandescent bulbs in your home with energy-saving bulbs could save about $50 a year. But the alternatives can be overwhelming — and even with all the choices out there, they still leave a lot to be desired aesthetically.

Best known are the curly compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) introduced a few years ago. Small versions of the long, tubular fluorescent bulbs often used in kitchens and offices, they're said to use about one-fourth the energy of incandescent bulbs and last 10 times longer.

"CFLs have really evolved over the past few years," said celebrity designer and author Cortney Novogratz, who along with her husband, Robert, stars in the new HGTV show Home by Novogratz. There are now specific models for indoor and outdoor use as well as three-way switches and diverse styles, she said. Novogratz points to dimmable switches, which use even less energy and create a soft glow similar to incandescent bulbs, and soft-white CFLs, which give off a warmer, more intimate light than a typical fluorescent.

You're also likely to see LED (light-emitting diode) and halogen incandescent bulbs on store shelves. LEDs can save the most energy but are also the most expensive, with some bulbs costing as much as $50 each. Halogen incandescents are the least expensive alternative but consume more energy than LEDs and CFLs.

Aesthetics aside, the issue has also become politically divisive. Recently, state Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis, unsuccessfully sponsored a bill to repeal the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The act requires incandescent bulbs to be 25 percent more efficient by 2012, effectively phasing them out.

Barton and others maintain that the guidelines amount to a government overreach. On July 15, undeterred by the defeat of the repeal, U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, introduced an amendment, the 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Act, which passed in the House. It denies funding to the Department of Energy for the implementation of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.

As the debate continues, consumers are left to decide if and when to make the switch. Despite innovations such as coverings that make curly bulbs look more like incandescents, a number of people are attempting to circumvent the new standards by stockpiling incandescent bulbs.

Diana Rodriguez of Alexandria, Va., confessed that she has set aside a cache of incandescent bulbs.
"I dread when they won't be available anymore," Rodriguez wrote via email. "My husband started putting the CFL bulbs in our overhead lights a few years ago because they last longer, but I just hate them. I have tried to adjust, but it is just not the same. I know that sounds terrible because they are not good for the environment, but the quality of the light is so much different."

Rodriguez also says she has difficulty reading in a room that isn't bright enough. "I love the brightness and clarity of the incandescent bulbs," she said. "I know it is an inevitable thing at this point, but since they are going away, I want to save some for 'old times' sake.

Rachel Rothman, Consumer Electronics and Engineering Senior Test Engineer at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute, said the CFLs and LEDs available today have better output, reliability, adjustability, efficiency and ease of use than those tested in 2008 - and prices continue to drop.

"Many of the old concerns of light patterns and off-lighting are things of the past," Rothman said. "The top bulb in our last test, which was preferred by testers to the incandescent, is the Satco Energy Saving Mini Spiral Bulb 13W, and it is still a great choice."

Rothman also recommends looking for Energy Star-rated products, the government designation for energy-efficient products.

"There are roughly 4 billion light bulb sockets in the U.S., and more than 75 percent still use standard incandescent bulbs," Rothman said. "The new CFL light bulbs will save from 25 percent to 75 percent in energy costs, compared to incandescent bulbs. With new EISA standards, U.S. households could save nearly $6 billion dollars in 2015 alone."

The words of Edison are likely as illuminating now as they were in his day.

"We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived," Edison wrote. "Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows."



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Rare earth metals aren’t particularly rare, geologically speaking, but there are few minable, commercially viable deposits.

China dominates the industry, making up 97% of the world’s rare earths production. China has begun to restrict exports of rare earths, and late last year unofficially blocked rare earth shipments to Japan during a territorial dispute. Since then, other countries—Japan in particular, which accounts for one-third of global use—have been looking for new sources of rare earths.

Phosphor is a rare earth mineral and it is visually seen in each fluorescent bulb in the form of the white coating that you see on the inside of the glass tube. Prices of heavy rare earths, which are more expensive than the light elements due to their scarcity, have soared by up to five times since the start of 2011 and the light rare earths have jumped by two to three times during the same period.

Researchers have found high concentrations of rare earth metals, essential materials for making nearly all high-tech electronics, in mud on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, according to study published online earlier this week in Nature Geoscience. These huge deposits could help satisfy ever-increasing demand for rare earth metals, but there are major questions about the economic viability and ecological effects of mining the seabed.

Prior to this discovery, manufacturers and environmentalists alike expressed concern over the limited and dwindling supply of rare earth minerals. However, experts report that the minerals found in the Pacific may reinforce known land supply by 1,000 times.

An area of one square kilometer (0.4 square miles) near one sample site in the central North Pacific could fulfill 20% of the world’s annual demand, estimated earth scientist Yasuhiro Kato, a member of the research team.Extracting the rare earths from the mud should be relatively easy, Kato told Reuters. ”Sea mud can be brought up to ships and we can extract rare earths right there using simple acid leaching,” he said. ”[W]ithin a few hours we can extract 80–90 percent of rare earths from the mud.”

Some experts doubt that mining rare earths from the ocean floor will be economically feasible. Getting mud to the surface would be an expensive process for a relatively small yield. While the mud may have rare earths concentrations similar to some Chinese mines, industry analyst Gareth Hatch told Nature‘s Great Beyond blog, those mines only turn a profit because it’s easy to extract rare earth metals from the clay there; most mines have concentrations between 3% and 10%. Extracting these rare earths, too, could cost more than the resulting products will sell for.

 Green Electrical Supply  has aggressively worked to manage the multiple price increases we have seen from our manufacturers. Unfortunately, we can no longer offer our fluorescent products at our old price levels. We will continue to do all we can to keep our selling prices competitive and our shelves stocked to promptly supply your needs.  Green Electrical Supply will continue to provide only the highest quality fluorescent lamps and will NOT look for ways to reduce pricing by lowering quality.  We appreciate your understanding and support as everyone works through this current pricing volatility.