Ask Ovia: What is the CCT recommended for health care environments?

The column you get asking your lighting questions at the top of OVIA, Mike Collins, and his team of technical experts. Q: What is the CCT recommended for health care environments specifically? CCT (associated color temperature) in lighting refers to the appearance of the color of the light source, size in Kelvin (K). It describes […]

Exploring alternatives to health care micronetworks

At its Ontario Medical Center in Southern California, Kaiser Permanente is installing a microgrid that includes a 2.2-megawatt solar array, a 9.5-megawatt-hour zinc hybrid battery, and a state-of-the-art controller. This follows an earlier microgrid installation at Kaiser’s Richmond Medical Center, a smaller project that combined 1 megawatt of battery storage with the installation of on-site […]