Cabbage price! India government wants to LED bulb pressure to 4 yuan

China [LED] - according to the India Times reported that the India government plans in accordance with the requirements of efficient lighting management plan (DELP) LED bulb price from 300 rupees (contract 28.8 yuan) the average retail price down to 44 rupees (contract 4.2 yuan). India's energy minister, Piyush Goyal, recently said at the India Federation of trade unions: the government plans to bid for a large number of LED bulbs, the price will be reduced to 44 rupees. "

Under the national effective lighting demand management plan, the India government through the bidding, LED bulbs, and with very competitive price to sell to the public. At present, the price of a single LED bulb is about 275 to 300 rupees (RMB 26.4-28.8 yuan). The minister said that in the most recent bid, there was a price tag of 74 rupees ($7.1) for the manufacturer, which was lower than the target price of $99.

Over the past 6 to 8 months, by the Department of energy's energy services (EESL) a number of plans to promote, LED bulb prices fell by up to 75%. Consumers through the government plan, you can also choose to buy monthly installments LED bulbs. It is expected that the country plans to stimulate the market demand for LED bulbs, and the retail price down to 150 rupees (contract RMB 14.4 yuan).

According to official statistics, the use of LED bulbs for home and public lighting will reduce energy consumption by 50% to 90%. If the 7 billion 700 million India home incandescent bulbs are replaced with LED bulbs, then the country can save about 25 billion kwh of energy per year.

The government has issued a total of 13 million 500 thousand LED bulbs, and plans to within 3 years, through a large number of procurement re issued the 700 million bulbs. Lighting accounts for about 20% of India's total energy consumption, and high energy consumption is still widespread in the market.

LED lighting policy in India:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 5, 2015 to start the LED home and street lighting plan "bright road movement".

High efficiency lighting requirements management program is designed to replace the use of incandescent and fluorescent bulbs, switch to LED bulbs. The purpose of the plan is to cut up to 105 billion kilowatts of energy consumption, to reduce the electricity bill to 400 billion rupees (contract RMB 38 billion 400 million).

India's national street lamp program (SLNP) is currently locked up 35 million road lights, will be able to save the energy consumption of 9 billion kilowatts, and has been installed under the lights to save electricity of 1 billion 500 million watts. (Chinese LED net Emmachang)

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