Current Lighting Solutions, LLC (formerly Current, powered by GE and GE Current, a Daintree company), trading as Current, is a company that sells

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s. It is headquartered in

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, U.S. The company CEO is Manish Bhandari, who was previously the group president at Emerson for discrete & industrial portfolio of businesses.

History

Current was established by

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on October 7, 2015, as a startup subsidiary. It began with more than $1 billion of revenue with the expectation to grow the business to a $5 billion business by 2020. On April 21, 2016, Current acquired the building automation company

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for $77 million. The plan is to combine Daintree's open-standard

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with GE's open source platform Predix to offer a new energy management system to businesses. On 6 November 2018, GE announced that it would sell Current to the US private equity firm

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. Under the terms of the sale, AIP will maintain use of the GE brand. The deal was concluded in April 2019. On 20 June 2022, the company announced that it would rebrand from GE Current to Current Lighting Solutions following the acquisition of Hubbell’s Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Lighting business.

Projects

Current announced working with seven global companies, including

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, Simon Properties, and the City of

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. The company has also partnered with other such companies as

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, and Qualcomm. It also within the first 5 months secured the world's largest LED installation with

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. Under the deal, Current will replace 1.4 million existing lights at 5,000 of JPMorgan Chase's bank branches with

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. The replacement is expected to reduce the lighting-related energy used at these branches by 50 percent. For the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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, Current provided 200,000 energy-efficient lights at more than 40 Olympic venues (over 46 million square feet in total), reducing 50 percent of the energy costs.

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