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#1 - Tell us about the designers, marketers, or other conveyors you believe have been especially important in promoting energy-efficient lighting.

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#2 - Explain how the emphasis on lighting efficiency has changed the nature of your job during the past 30 years. Include specific examples.

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#3 - Can you give examples of projects that have been especially important for moving efficient lighting into the market?

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#4 - How have the needs of various lighting users changed, in your experience? Can you provide data on how you determined those needs and how this influenced your planning process?

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#5 - Lighting design has moved from "blankets of light" to more refined and complex designs. In your experience, have there been unanticipated consequences (good or bad)?

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#6 - Can you provide information about the effects of corporate downsizing and globalization on lighting sales and design?

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#7 - Efficient lighting is increasingly seen as a system involving many integrated components. From your experience, how has this affected adoption of the technology?

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#8 - Describe how government actions have affected your efforts to expand the use of energy-efficient lighting. These actions could include research and development efforts, legislation, local energy ordinances, or buying habits.

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#9 -Energy-efficient lighting is sold in four main markets: residential, commercial, industrial, and specialty. How have design and sales perceptions of these markets changed?

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#10 - How does professional training about lighting differ now from when you started in your field?

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#11 - Lighting has been a part of many utilities' Demand-Side Management programs. Can you cite particularly successful or unsuccessful efforts? What effect is utility restructuring having on DSM?

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#12 - Some technically successful devices have failed to sell; other devices have sold well despite technical problems. Describe your experience with such successes and failures.

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#13 - From your own experience, give examples of interactions with producers of energy-efficient lighting products. How receptive have they been to feedback from the field?

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#14 - Give examples of your interactions with different consumer groups. Can you cite (and provide copies of) market surveys or other studies of consumption patterns?

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GENERAL QUESTIONS:

#15 - What specific effects did the Energy Crisis of the 1970s have on your work with lighting technology?

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#16 - Some efficient lighting products have become associated with problems such as torchier fires, mercury content, and "light pollution." What problems or concerns affected your work with efficient lighting?

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#17 - Adopting efficient lighting seems to require producers, conveyors, and consumers to think about illumination in new ways . Do you see evidence of new approaches to lighting in society at large? Have you, as a conveyor, changed your own notions about lighting?

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#18 - Has your involvement with energy-efficient lighting led you to consider energy issues when you think about other products? Can you give examples?

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#19 - In your experience, has the environmental movement helped create demand for efficient lighting? Can you cite any specific examples?

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#20 - Are there questions we should be asking that you didn't see on this form? Please be specific, and remember to answer your own question.

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