Cooper Lighting’s Photometric Laboratory, part of its LED Innovation Center which is home to the research, design, validation and manufacturing of proprietary LED and other advanced lighting technologies of the company, has received U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) LED Lighting Facts® Testing Laboratory Approval.
 
LED Lighting Facts testing laboratory approval is granted to partners that have submitted proof of accreditation by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP), a program administered by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) that provides an unbiased third-party evaluation to testing and calibration laboratories, or have been recognized by other accreditation bodies.
 
Cooper Lighting has NVLAP accreditation (NVLAP Lab Code 200050-0) for solid-state lighting (SSL) test methods in Energy Efficient Lighting Products.
 
The scope of Cooper Lighting's Lighting Facts approvals include:
•    IES LM-79 for total flux and color (required label metrics; LM-79 sections 9 and 12)
•    IES LM-79 for intensity distribution (optional metrics; LM-79 section 10)
•    In-situ Temperature Measurement Test (ISTMT)
As of June 1, 2012, LED Lighting Facts accept testing reports only from Testing Laboratory Partners on the Approved Testing Laboratory List.