Remember when you were a kid and your parents were very particular about who you would hang out with? They knew that the company you kept was important. It helped shape your character and it influenced how other people saw you.

That’s why at Western Energy Control Solutions we’re really picky about the company we keep. We know that it’s important to offer a broad range of products and solutions to meet your diverse needs. But we don’t offer solutions from just anyone. We limit our professional relationships to those companies that offer the best quality products and service. And that’s why you can count on Western Energy Control Solutions to be your one-stop-shop for commercial and residential light and energy control solutions.

We are the exclusive representative in Southern California for Cree—a market-leading innovator of lighting products, LED solid-state lighting, LED components and their revolutionary family of lighting products, with both indoor and outdoor lighting solutions.

We offer Universal Remote products in Southern California. Universal Remote is the pioneer in control technology and provides state-of-the-art remote controls and complete home control and automation systems for residential and commercial clients.

We also represent Juno Lighting Group products in Southern California. Juno Lighting Group is committed to providing superior solutions for all your lighting challenges with a steady stream of products that lead the industry in quality performance and innovation.

We are also proud to represent Lutron in Southern California—a company that has invented hundreds of lighting control devices and systems and has advanced the technology of lighting control while focusing on exceptional quality and design. Lutron continues to lead the market in high-quality lighting controls for fluorescent, halogen incandescent, magnetic low-voltage, electronic low-voltage and LED light sources.

Your parents were right: You’re known by the company you keep. And we’re proud of the company we keep. They enable us to offer the best light and energy solutions in Southern California!

If you design, specify or install lighting and energy controls for residential properties in Southern California, you know that things are always changing. That doesn’t mean you have to follow every trend and fad that comes along, but you do want to be aware of what homeowners are looking for.

Right now there is an emerging group of homebuyers that represents the largest demographic group since the baby boomers. And 84 percent of these “millennials” plan to purchase a home. Many of them are pretty particular about the features they want to have built into their homes—including the ability to control things from one central place.

If you want to know more about what this influential group of homeowners is looking for, you may want to check out a recent builderone.com post that highlights their wishes (you can read the post here).  Some of the features they’re after include such things as iPod docking stations, home automation systems to control lights, heating and cooling, appliances and more.

Even if you’re designing systems for homeowners who aren’t millennials themselves, you may want to remind them that if and when they finally move out of the home they’re building (or remodeling) that there’s a good chance that they could be selling it to someone who is.

That’s where multi-room control systems such as HomeWorks QS and RadioRA2 from Lutron stand out. They enable homeowners to customize areas of their home to meet specific lighting needs. Or for even more control, homeowners can combine light control with audio, video, security and HVAC.

Want to know more about HomeWorks QS? You can download the 4-page PDF of the Lutron HomeWorks QS Training Options on the 4 HomeWorks QS training courses available and their times.

• View the available training courses, locations and dates for 2013
• Register online for the HWQS courses
• Find out which course is right for you!