On February 21, 2018, the official LED Lighting Facts emailed the partners and announced that it would close the program on March 30th.
As early as 10 years ago, the rise of LED lighting products in the market demonstrated its energy saving potential and performance attributes. However, due to its integrated design, evaluating the photometric performance of LEDs and other solid state lighting products can be extremely challenging. In order to accelerate the acceptance of high-performance lighting products by the market, DOE (Department of Energy, US Department of Energy) and the Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance (NGLIA) jointly initiated the LED Lighting Facts program. From its initial focus on photometric performance of LED lighting products, the program gradually developed into a rich product database that includes user-centric product analysis tools to help partners evaluate lighting product performance and emerging innovative designs.
As of now, the LED Lighting Facts program has approved 130 testing laboratories and accumulatively issued 72,486 labels for 1,705 manufacturers. The LED Lighting Facts label satisfies people’s requirements for providing more specific performance data and more credibility for lighting products, and plays a key role in the application and development of solid-state lighting technology.
Unfortunately, due to funding uncertainty caused by the reduction of the federal budget, the US Department of Energy decided to stop supporting the plan. Therefore, LED Lighting Facts plans to no longer accept product submissions from March 1st, and the site will be closed on March 30th. Until the site is eventually closed, partners can still log in and download the tag and product list.