General Electric has stopped manufacturing incandescent light bulbs, reports Clean Break.
According to Clean Break, GE scrapped existing plans to develop high-efficiency incandescent (HEI) and will instead focus on LED and OLED technologies.
The lighting industry, as many integrators know, is going through a paradigm shift as a result of the Energy Act of 2007 and California’s Title 24 laws and the call for the elimination of high-wattage incandescents starting in 2012.
The laws will require voltage limitations in certain rooms and/or the use of other light bulb technologies, including LED and compact fluorescents.
The custom industry needs to take advantage of this to once again push lighting control and other energy-saving installation technologies.
GE spokesman David Schuellerman was quoted in the report as saying the company decided "to place greater focus and investment on what we believe will be the ultimate in energy efficient lighting — light emitting diodes (LEDs) and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs)."
Goodbye Thomas Edison ...