Renaissance Lighting Named 2009 GoingGreen Top 100 Winner

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HERNDON, Va.-(Business Wire)-September 3, 2009 - Renaissance Lighting, a leading innovator in the development of solid-state LED downlight fixtures, has been selected as a GoingGreen Top 100 Winner by AlwaysOn, in advance of their annual GoingGreen West Conference. The GoingGreen Top 100 recognition is given annually to privately held, emerging companies that create new business opportunities in green technology.

Renaissance Lighting, selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts who span the globe for innovative, market changing companies showing great potential for commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz, is being recognized specifically for its expertise in the Going Green Energy Efficiency and Energy Management category based on the company’s ground-breaking technologies, elegant product design, overall market potential and its compelling, highly energy-efficient family of LED lighting fixtures.

“The GoingGreen Top 100 winners have excelled in key strategic areas in the global clean energy technology markets,” said Tony Perkins, founder and CEO of AlwaysOn. “We congratulate them for their success in introducing new tools, services, and systems that are driving the next phase of greentech innovation and transforming the biggest industries on earth.”

Renaissance Lighting offers an impressive portfolio of architectural-grade, solid-state downlights that includes both RGB (Red, Green, Blue) and White LED-based downlight fixtures for various specialty and general illumination applications. Renaissance Lighting’s latest product introduction gave the industry its most efficient, architectural-grade LED RGB downlights with improved flexibility, more finish options and more lumen output than ever before. As a result, these fixtures are poised to change the way architects and lighting designers look at solid-state lighting.

“Renaissance Lighting is honored to be selected as a GoingGreen Top 100 winner,” said Renaissance Lighting CEO, Barry Weinbaum. “Our new generation of energy-efficient solid-state downlights is the result of continued commercial breakthroughs in the application of LED technology based on Constructive Occlusion®, our patented technology for the unique mixing and blending of multiple LEDs into one powerful light source and more efficient products. This recognition is yet another demonstration of Renaissance Lighting’s innovation and product leadership within the global solid-state lighting marketplace and our unrelenting commitment to green technology and energy efficiency.”

Renaissance Lighting and the other 2009 GoingGreen Top 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists and industry insiders following a rigorous three-month selection process.

About Renaissance Lighting:

Renaissance Lighting is a global leader in the development of next-generation solid-state architectural downlights and controls, the result of on-going breakthroughs in the application of LED technology and Constructive Occlusion®, patented technology for the unique mixing and blending of multiple LED light sources. The company’s innovation and unrelenting commitment to green technology are key forces driving the development of highly creative lighting products that deliver the solid-state industry’s purest light source with exceptional appearance, superior efficiency and glare-free illumination for all architectural applications. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA, Renaissance Lighting deploys a revolutionary approach to product engineering and design that is supported by 30 patents including its optical and feedback control technologies. For more information visit www.renaissancelighting.com.

About AlwaysOn:

AlwaysOn ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, AlwaysOn continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. AlwaysOn is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, GoingGreen East and West, Venture Summit East and West) and quarterly print "blogozine" by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, AlwaysOn is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.

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