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PALO ALTO, Calif., April 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Environmental & Building Technologies (EBT) Group at Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce its Exclusive 2007 Quarterly Analyst Briefing on Tuesday, April, 24, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. CT / 11:00 p.m. ET.

Approximately 22 percent of all electricity produced in the U.S. is used for lighting applications. It is estimated that half of this energy is wasted by inefficient lighting sources. Using energy efficient lighting sources can reduce this waste.

Frost & Sullivan's Director of EBT Practice Sanjiv Bhaskar states, "Lighting efficiency

standards as opposed to technology could possibly lead the efforts to reducing the energy consumption for lighting. It will be interesting to see the response of all the stakeholders in the lighting industry towards this move to ban incandescent lamps in the US."

Those interested in participating in the interactive briefing should send an e-mail to Johanna Haynes - Corporate Communications at johanna.haynes@frost.com with the following information: your full name, company name, title, telephone number, e-mail address, city, state and country. She will send the registration details via e-mail upon receipt of the above information.

Equipment manufacturers, distributors, facility managers, legislators, utility companies and several others involved in the lighting industry can benefit from this briefing. Discussion will be based on the impact of energy savings due to banning or phasing inefficient lighting sources, such as incandescent lamps, in the lighting industry and the environment. This impact is a result of the reduction of greenhouse gases.

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Contact: Johanna Haynes Corporate Communications - North America P: 210-247-3870 F: 210-348-1003 E: johanna.haynes@frost.com http://www.frost.com/

Source: Frost & Sullivan