Acuity Brands expands outdoor LED roadway and street lighting portfolio

Date Announced: 21 Apr 2011 Atlanta - Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE:AYI - News), a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, has announced a major expansion of its outdoor LED lighting portfolio. Offered under Acuity Brands LED Outdoor, the portfolio includes solutions from six of the Company’s leading lighting solutions brands, Lithonia Lighting®, Hydrel®, Tersen®, American Electric Lighting®, Antique Street Lamps™ and Winona Lighting®.New to the Company’s DRIVE application segment, addressing roadway and street lighting, is the American Electric Lighting Autobahn™ fixture, an attractive cobra-head LED luminaire that packs the lumen punch to directly replace 70-250w HPS (High-Pressure Sodium) cobra-heads while enabling longer service life and up to 50% energy savings. The Autobahn is compatible with the Acuity Brands ROAM® system, the Company’s industry-leading intelligent control solution, combining photo-control technology with wireless monitoring and control capabilities. Working together, LED lighting and intelligent control systems provide an integrated outdoor lighting solution enabling additional energy savings from day one.Acuity Brands LED Outdoor roadway products are designed to meet IESNA RP-8 standards for roadway applications and their high-lumen output provides maximum visibility. The Autobahn incorporates Acuity Brands’ philosophy of providing the highest quality illumination while minimizing light pollution by putting light on task, not toward the sky.“Our LED roadway lighting solutions deliver optimal performance, contributing towards improved safety, energy-efficiency, and access to integrated wireless monitoring and control,” said Michael Naylor, Acuity Brands Lighting Vice President and General Manager, Outdoor Products. “Roadway luminaires have diverse requirements for lighting distribution and intensity due to varying traffic patterns and their positioning at pedestrian zone intersections, whether in metropolitan areas or rural communities. The breadth and performance capabilities of our high-performance LED Outdoor portfolio provides integrated solutions and optimal light quality, meeting the challenges of roadway, street, sidewalk, and bikeway applications,” continued Naylor.The American Electric Lighting Autobahn will be available for order placement in May 2011. All of the new Acuity Brands LED Outdoor luminaires will be on display at the LightFair International Tradeshow, booth #1801, May 17-19, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pa.The Acuity Brands LED Outdoor portfolio is available nationally through Acuity Brands’ sales representatives and authorized distributors. For more information about the Company’s full line of LED lighting and controls, please visit the Acuity Brands, LED Lighting Solutions and ROAM web sites and Acuity Brands’ YouTube Channel. You can also become a fan of Acuity Brands and Acuity Brands Outdoor on Facebook® and follow Lithonia Lighting on Twitter®.About Acuity BrandsAcuity Brands, Inc. is a North American market leader and one of the world’s leading providers of luminaires, lighting control systems and related products and services with fiscal year 2010 net sales of over $1.6 billion. The Company’s lighting and system control product lines include Lithonia Lighting®, Holophane®, Peerless®, Mark Architectural Lighting™, Hydrel®, American Electric Lighting®, Gotham®, Carandini®, RELOC®, Antique Street Lamps™, Tersen®, Winona Lighting®, Synergy® Lighting Controls, Sensor Switch®, Lighting Control & Design™, ROAM® and Sunoptics®. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Acuity Brands employs approximately 6,000 associates and has operations throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

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