Energy-saving planning promotes LED lighting to breed new markets

The National Development and Reform Commission recently released the "Semiconductor Lighting Energy-saving Industry Plan", planning that by 2015, China's 60W or more incandescent lamps for general lighting have all been eliminated; energy-saving lamps and other traditional high-efficiency lighting products market share stabilized at about 70%; LED functional lighting Product market share of more than 20%.

The plan also said: Gradually increase financial subsidies to promote LED lighting products; promote LED products in medical, agricultural, stage, landscape lighting and other professional and special places of demonstration applications; organized well-known architectural lighting applications, building intelligent lighting energy-saving reform, Power grid off-grid lighting application demonstration project.

“The current domestic LED lighting industry has the problems of low energy efficiency, short service life, and high cost, which all hinder the market popularity of LED lamps,” said Peng Wanhua, deputy head of the National Semiconductor Lighting Standards Working Group.

Reporters visited some of the city of Shanghai, found that, although incandescent lamps are rare, energy-saving lamps, LED lights have become the protagonist of the city, but compared with the popularity of energy-saving lamps, LED lighting products are significantly less interested. Many shopkeepers revealed that at present, the price of energy-saving lamps is about 10 yuan, and the ex-factory price of LED lamps is generally more than 30 yuan. Consumers are more sensitive to prices, so they are more willing to use cheap energy-saving lamps instead of energy-saving lamps. LED pockets.

The reporter learned from further visits that although some consumers are scared off by the high prices of LED lighting products, most consumers actually have more questions as to whether their quality really passes. According to Peng Wanhua, the situation is: LED chip life can reach hundreds of thousands of hours, the life of components also have 50,000-100,000 hours, but at present some of the domestic LED lamp life can only be 15,000 -2.5 million hours. What is the concept of a lifetime of 15,000 to 25,000 hours? Assuming 8 hours of light is turned on per day, the service life of an LED bulb is about 5-8.5 years. Peng Wanhua believes that compared with the life of LED chips and components, there is still much room for improvement in the life of LED lamps.

The export of LED lighting products in our country has a good momentum, but due to the low quality control capability of some companies, product quality problems frequently occur. It is understood that in 2012 the European Union's non-food Rapid Alert System (RAPEX) notified China's export of LED lighting products a total of 37 times. Among them, 29 were notified because of poor insulation performance due to insufficient creepage distance or clearance.

At the end of 2012, the Bureau of Quality Supervision, the State Administration of Internal Affairs, and the Bureau of Industry and Commerce investigated the LED lighting products, energy-saving lamps, road lighting, fire emergency lighting, and electric light sources throughout the country. The results showed that the LED lighting product pass rate was only 51%. Obviously, LED lighting must enter into millions of households. The first is to lower the price, and the second is to improve the reliability and stability of the product and pass quality.

It is reported that the current price of LED chips has been significantly reduced, and the prices of LED lighting terminal products are also falling. In particular, the current shift in the LED industry from coastal to inland and active mergers and acquisitions has provided support for the decline in the cost of LED products. NVC moved its headquarters from Huizhou to Chongqing, and Sanan and BDO Runda moved to Wuhu, while Zhenmingli selected Yangzhou, making the industrial layout more reasonable.

However, for LED companies, the key factor to truly getting out of the downturn is not how much "wide" they are doing but how deep they are. Some experts pointed out that with the "semiconductor lighting energy-saving industry planning" out of the incandescent lamp elimination schedule determined, financial subsidies to promote greater efforts, and government procurement to take the lead in the implementation of LED lighting products and other measures, a new round of LED lighting market Opportunities are being nurtured, depending on whether the company can strengthen the investment in key links such as technology research and development and quality management.