How far is the popularity of LED lighting in China?

With the approaching peak of summer electricity consumption, power shortages will become a norm, electricity consumption will rise year after year, natural resources will gradually dry up, and the popularity of smart energy-saving lighting will become even more imminent.

According to industry express reports, from January to May, the whole society used 1.96 trillion kWh of electricity, an increase of 5.8% year-on-year, and the country’s electricity gap is still relatively large. It is tentatively predicted that during the summer peak season this year, the maximum daily electricity consumption may reach 15.5 billion to 16 billion kilowatt-hours, which is an increase of 3% to 6% from the peak value of the previous year, and the nation's largest electricity gap is about 18 million kilowatts during peak hours. The regions are mainly Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Hebei, and Chongqing. If there is an extreme situation such as sudden flooding during the flood season and excessively long duration of high-temperature and high-humidity weather, the power gap may further increase. Among them, Northwest China's power grid ranked first in the country in May, with a year-on-year growth rate of 10.11%. The orderly increase in electricity consumption by the five regional power grids of the State Grid was ranked in the order of northwest, north, east, northeast, and central China.

From the above series of data, we can see that electricity consumption is far beyond our imagination. For this reason, we strongly advocate saving electricity. This is not only an important way to save energy and protect the environment, but also an important means of building a conservation-oriented society and achieving sustainable economic development. This requires us to advocate energy-saving and low-carbon production methods, consumption patterns and living habits. Let energy-saving thoughts and experience activities penetrate customers and promote social energy conservation.

It is imperative to promote energy-saving lighting

In terms of energy saving, the state and some local governments have also proposed relevant policies and support, including the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan for the National Basic Public Service System”, which mentioned arranging for 2.2 billion yuan to support the promotion of energy-saving lamps and LED lamps; especially The civilian LED lighting market.At the same time, Beijing Municipality issued “Implementation Opinions on the Implementation of Urban Lighting Regulations”, which clearly stipulates that Beijing nightscape lighting must adopt energy-saving technologies and prohibit the use of powerful searchlights and high-power floodlights.Guangdong Province plans to be in full within three years. The forced replacement of LED lighting in the public sector in the province can be seen from these aspects of the determination of national government agencies to promote energy-saving products.

Relative to our policies in this country, how do some western countries promote the development of energy-saving products? First, let's take a look at Japan, Japan's LED civilian lighting market development is quickly followed by the power saving measures from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, it is Consumers are urged to switch to LED lighting. "Japan's energy-saving product subsidy model has been perfected many years ago." "The subsidy uses a points system, so long as you purchase energy-saving products, you can earn points and use points for other goods." Japan's subsidy policy has achieved very good results. Followed by the United States, LED lighting in the United States lighting market is also very popular, and its government subsidies in addition to consumer price subsidies, there are technology-oriented company subsidies.

In summary, China's introduction of LED residential lighting product subsidy policy at this time is also largely to improve the current development of the LED lighting industry, playing a positive role in guiding and promoting.

Lighting industry tycoons are pouring in

With the introduction of a series of policies by the state, major lighting manufacturers have smelled the huge business opportunities hidden in the Chinese market and have poured in.

Osram: "China's LED lighting civilian market has started." A middle level of the OSRAM company said that many dealers of lighting fixtures have already requested shipments of LED products. "The biggest problem now is price and standards."

Setting up factories or expanding production capacity in China has become a way to reduce costs. Chen Kunhe, vice president of sales for Asia Pacific of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors Asia Ltd., said that the development slowed down in the first half of the year and the Chinese government recently decided to allocate 2.2 billion yuan in financial subsidies to promote energy-saving lamps and LED lighting. On May 25th, OSRAM and Wuxi signed a contract to build a new LED assembly plant in the area, which will be completed and put into operation by the end of 2013. The main business is the LED chip package. “This is mainly to open up China, the world's largest lighting market, to provide ordinary Ming Ming, automotive lighting and industrial lighting products, but also for overseas markets.”

GE Lighting: Wang Jian, general manager of GE Lighting's LED products in Asia Pacific, revealed that following the formal operation of the Chengdu Innovation Center two weeks ago, the Xi'an Innovation Center will also be established in July. “The West will bring us a great opportunity”. The Innovation Center mainly designs and sells energy-saving lighting products such as LEDs.

Matsushita Electric: Matsushita Electric Light Source business plan Weng Yipeng also revealed that early this year, Panasonic has begun to sell LED lamps in the Chinese market. In August and September this year, Panasonic will also enter China's LED light source market. Its LED light source factory in Hangzhou will expand its production capacity. At present, LED light sources produced by Panasonic in China account for more than half of its global production capacity. "This is mainly to reduce costs and seize the Chinese market."

Even so, China's attempt to achieve energy saving for the entire nation in the short term is not realistic. First, it requires a process from the public's point of view. For the public, LED lighting needs a long way from strangers to ordinary families. This requires major media and businesses to play a role in promotion and guidance.

The obstacles to marching into the civilian market

Although many LED manufacturers are full of hopes and expectations for the LED lighting market, LED lighting has not yet entered the civilian market. The reason can be seen from the following points:

1. High prices Compared with traditional lighting, Led lamps are expensive, and are more commonly used in government projects and large buildings, and do not go into ordinary families. Although the Led light has the characteristics of environmental protection, but the high prices still make most of the ordinary consumers in a wait-and-see state, so that the Led light into the home lighting still takes a long time.

2. Lack of core technologies Although the Led industry has shown a trend of “blowouts” in recent years, it is lacking in core technologies and patents, especially the lack of core patents related to the future development of the Blu-ray and white light, which constrains the entire Led industry. The long-term development. Even the core chips of some SMEs are still dependent on foreign exports. With the continuous expansion of the industry scale, technology patent issues will become the lifeblood of controlling the development of enterprises.

Policy promoters launch the domestic market

In the face of this severe situation, LED lighting companies will pin their hopes on the start of the domestic market. At the end of last year, the National Development and Reform Commission promulgated the "China Roadmap for Phase-out of Incandescent Lamps" and decided to prohibit the sale and import of incandescent lamps for general lighting of 100 watts and above from October 1, 2012; by October 1, 2016, sales and sales are prohibited. Incandescent lamps for general lighting of 15 watts and above. The issuance of this roadmap means that incandescent lamps will gradually withdraw from the historical stage starting this year, and the curtain of the domestic LED lighting market is gradually opening.

1. The cost reduction is the key to the market's start. An ordinary LED needs to be a few hundred dollars. Such a high price will shut out most consumers. Therefore, to really start the domestic LED lighting market, the rapid reduction of costs becomes the key. “At present, the penetration rate of LED products in the civilian market is only about 5%. A major factor hindering the large-scale application of LED lighting products is the price. Once the cost of LED lamps is substantially reduced, it will inevitably promote the accelerated popularity of LED lighting products.” Shanghai Institute of Illumination The principal of the institute, Professor Zhang Haijun, said.

2. The lack of core technologies will be a deterrent to the rapid decline in LED costs. "The state should not only promote the breakthrough of core technology, but also have independent intellectual property rights while supporting the LED lighting industry application end."

Pan Wenbo, the founder of Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition and Dean of the Guangya Lighting Research Institute, said: “At present, LED chips account for nearly 60% of the cost of lamps and lanterns. The price reduction of optical chips can drive down the cost of lamps and lanterns by nearly 50%. With the improvement of packaging technology, With the popularization of high-efficiency and low-cost drive circuits, the cost of lamps and lanterns can be reduced to 30% to 40%, and the price of LED bulbs that replace 40-watt incandescent lamps can be reduced to 20-30 yuan. The decrease in street lamps is slightly smaller, but it can also be reduced to The mainstream price of around a thousand yuan will help accelerate the penetration of LED lighting in the civilian market."

LED energy-saving lamps future market demand

With the concept of energy saving more and more accepted by the public, more energy-saving products have been recognized by everyone. In particular, LED energy-saving lamps have been favored by the general public, because the use of such energy-saving lamps despite the higher unit price, but with Compared with ordinary light bulbs, it can save 75% energy and its lifetime is several times that of ordinary light bulbs. Fluorescent lamps are more energy efficient than incandescent lamps, and 20 watt fluorescent lamps are better than 40 watt incandescent lamps. Energy-saving lamps with high luminous efficiency are used to save energy.

Moreover, with the fall of Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition 2012, civil (universal) LED products accounted for the majority, and many companies 3 watts of LED lamp costs have been controlled within 10 yuan, compared with the same efficiency of energy-saving lamps, The price is not far behind, but the energy-saving effect is obvious. Under the background that the national electricity price increase is basically a foregone conclusion, civilian (universal) LEDs have replaced large-scale traditional lighting for a long time.

Postscript

Although at present, the LED lighting products market is still in its infancy, the product prices are high, the market acceptance rate is not high, and the product life and reliability have not yet stood the test of time. It also needs policy guidance, financial subsidies, etc. to help LED lighting for civilian use. Promotion, but I believe that in the next few years or more than a dozen years to achieve energy-saving is inevitable.