India will achieve 100 cities LED lighting replacement in 2019

The India government is currently strong promotion of energy-saving lamps LED universal. Moody's announced earlier this year, the Prime Minister, including government buildings, street lights and the general public to promote family to promote energy-saving lamps LED package in.

Indian Prime Minister's Office recommended that all government departments and their subsidiary bodies in this year only purchase LED lights as daily lighting lamps government departments, as well as from the beginning of this year, all government departments will replace the traditional lighting with LED lights. There are currently 302 government departments have been involved in the promotion of the project.

According promotion plan, India is prepared before March 2019, to 100 cities in ordinary household lights and street lights replace all LED lamps. Currently the number of ordinary light bulbs on the Indian market is 770 million, the number of street lights bulbs 35,000,000. It is estimated that if all the lights replace the lost, reducing the total energy consumption from 3400 MW to 1400 MW per year can save 55 billion rupees.

Although compared with traditional lights, LED lights cost more, but saving and long life and other characteristics of their own have been favored by the market. Thus, in the long run, the widespread use of LED lights to save energy and can play the dual role of public expenditure.

Currently, the Indian market, the main drag to promote LED energy-saving lamps are facing high prices, lack of market supply is not high, and consumer product awareness of energy-saving lamps. To ease the price pressure, the promotion plan provides for local government when carrying out the transformation of the street lights do not have to invest a lot of one-time funds, transformation costs by installments up to seven years to reduce financial pressure, while home users can also choose to 9- 12 monthly installments to purchase LED energy-saving lamps.

Currently, India has more than 186 cities to join the promotion of household lamps LED lamp replacement program, including Andhra Pradesh, Pondicherry and other cities have fully completed the renovation project, 10 million LED bulbs have been placed in the people at home. The Indian government plans, before March 2016, to 15 million LED bulbs into the market.

India has also set up a company called energy efficient services, specializing in the promotion of domestic and promote LED street lighting, the company registered capital of 5 billion rubles. Indian officials said that this home energy efficient service is currently the Asian Development Bank, KfW financing institutions and the Indian Industry Cooperation Agency loans 30 billion rubles apply.

Household lamps LED lights to promote the replacement program covers 3.7 million poor families from the beginning of this year, we will be able to offer assistance of Rs 10 each to buy two high-quality LED lights run. In the general market, an energy-saving light bulbs priced at 300-400 lira, while energy-efficient services company India is responsible for providing each lamp 95-125 lira subsidies.

It is understood, LED bulb price from 310 liras / month decline for this year's 73 liras / month of January 2014. LED lights large and transparent government procurement process orders, is the main reason for a substantial price reduction LED lights.

Indian officials said, LED energy-saving lamps the future will further promote energy-saving campaign, the urgent need for India with local governments and support, particularly in tourism-related venues facilities, places of worship, cultural heritage location and so on. India is the domestic manufacturing of household LED monthly capacity of 32 million bulbs, street lights monthly capacity of 200,000. Currently the number of LED lighting motivate domestic manufacturers is growing rapidly, from 27 March this year rose to 68 in May this year. Continued growth in domestic demand will further stimulate the emergence of India more energy-saving LED lamp manufacturers.