Welcome to LEDs Magazine’s Horticultural Lighting + Tech newsletter for June 5, 2023. Despite the refrain in lighting industry financial reports that LED-based horticultural lighting sales are slow due to higher energy prices, market research firm Mordor Intelligence still reports that over its forecast period from 2023 to 2028, horticultural lighting will demonstrate a compound annual growth rate of 20.61%. Meanwhile, key market players such as Signify and its Fluence business continue to expand their knowledge base for educational outreach to potential buyers in both food crop and legalized cannabis production. In our featured article, VoltServer’s James Eaves tackles controlled environment agriculture (CEA) power distribution techniques that can streamline CEA infrastructure, improve energy and operational efficiencies, and minimize safety risks to growers and maintenance personnel.

Look for our June issue, to be released soon, that contains an excellent analysis by Ian Ashdown regarding photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and extended PAR (ePAR) metrics, their usage in evaluating horticultural lighting products, as well as their shortcomings in defining the full potential of luminaires when held up against energy efficiency standards.

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