GE’s Evolve™ LED Scalable Area Light Wins 2013 LightTrades™ Award from EdisonReport

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — (NYSE:GE) — GE Lighting’s Evolve™ LED Scalable Area Light has earned a 2013 LightTrades™ Award presented by EdisonReport, which recognizes the top ten lighting products introduced in 2013.

GE’s Evolve LED Scalable Area Lights deliver the next generation of GE’s award-winning LED outdoor lighting technology, featuring greater flexibility, style and scalability coupled with higher lumen outputs, two color temperatures to suit user preference and even more photometric options for illuminating outside areas—from parking lots to spaces of all sizes. Designed with retailers, auto dealers, commercial property owners, mall operators and many other businesses in mind, GE’s ecomagination℠ Evolve LED Scalable Area Lights deliver 30 percent energy savings compared with traditional high-intensity discharge or metal halide lighting, and are rated for 50,000-hours life (more than 10 years based on 12 hours of operation per day).

A group of five judges evaluated lighting products introduced in 2013 at the industry’s largest conferences and tradeshows, including LIGHTFAIR International, IES Street and Area Conference, IES Annual Conference, Lux Live, Strategies in Light and The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition.

About EdisonReport
EdisonReport is a group of websites dedicated to the lighting industry. There are three brands: EdisonReport.net, EdisonReport.eu, EdisonReport.tv, that keep the commercial lighting sector informed of the latest news and developments within this dynamic, changing industry. It updates key decision-makers throughout the supply chain who specify, design, install and use lighting and related products. Visitors include lighting designers, architects, engineers, interior designers, contractors, utilities, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, national and regional governments and lighting associations.

About GE Lighting
GE Lighting invents with the vigor of its founder Thomas Edison to develop energy-efficient solutions that change the way people light their world in commercial, industrial, municipal and residential settings. The business employs about 14,000 people in more than 100 countries, and sells products under the Reveal® and Energy Smart® consumer brands, and Evolve™, GTx™, Immersion™, Infusion™, Lumination™, Albeo™ and Tetra® commercial brands, all trademarks of GE. General Electric (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter to build a world that works better. For more information, visit www.gelighting.com.