The California Energy Commission’s PIER inaugural booth experienced significant traffic during the highly attended LightFair International tradeshow in Las Vegas, NV. The booth was organized by the PIER partnership model as well as many successful PIER technologies. The PIER partnership model focuses on finding market-based solutions with manufacturers, building partnerships for demonstrations, integrating feedback for product improvement, and creating a rapid, economic path to market. To view a system graphic of the PIER partnership model, click here. In response to the many requests for more information and interest in connecting with PIER partners and project managers, a detailed list of the projects and partners featured in the booth has been posted below. Here you will find an overview of the featured LightFair projects and partners, as well as links to the official web page, contact information, and brochures from the

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We are constantly juggling more than a dozen complex issues to produce a design that meets the needs of the design team (architect, engineers, interior designer, acoustician, etc. etc.), the end-users, the maintenance folks, and the people who manage the facility and pay the energy bills. Here's one of many frustrations with the lighting marketplace.

Sconces.  Decorative pendants or chandeliers.  Torchieres.  Table lamps.  Post-top lanterns.

These decorative fixtures must be more than pretty objects; they must also deliver the light that is needed in a space, to the surfaces that need it, and now they must do it with a minimum of watts.  If you are designing a space with a contemporary, futuristic, or jazzy feel, it's not that big a deal because many manufacturers make some acceptable attractive fixtures in compact fluorescent, LED, or (rarely) in metal halide.  But what do you do when you need decorative fixtures that have an Art

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