China to phase out incandescent lamps

In the face of the global wave of elimination of incandescent light, China is also active. Jie Zhenhua, deputy director of the national development and Reform Commission, 22, said in Beijing, China will take an active and prudent approach to study the phasing out of incandescent schedules and supporting measures to contribute to global emissions of greenhouse gases.

Jie Zhenhua is in the Ministry of Finance and the national development and Reform Commission jointly held a national conference on the promotion of efficient lighting products to disclose the news.

At the meeting, the Ministry of Finance and the national development and Reform Commission deployed the first batch of financial subsidies for the promotion of 50 million efficient lighting products. In this regard, Jie Zhenhua said, to promote efficient lighting products is an important measure to achieve China's energy-saving emission reduction targets in 11th Five-Year. By 2010, China will promote efficient lighting products through financial subsidies 150 million, can save a total of 29 billion kwh, equivalent to less than the construction of a capacity of 6 kilowatts of thermal power plant.

Jie Zhenhua said that the promotion of efficient lighting products is also an urgent need to address global climate change. 2006, the International Energy Agency, a research report, if the phasing out of incandescent lamps in the world, from now on, by the year of the world's energy savings of up to 38%, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 166 tons. In February last year, the Australian government announced that it would ban the use of incandescent light bulbs in the country by the end of 2010. Subsequently, a number of OECD countries have joined the "disable incandescent" initiative.

Jie Zhenhua said, in the face of the global wave of incandescent lamp, China government and the United Nations Development Programme and the global environment fund will cooperate to carry out "phasing out incandescent lamps and energy saving lamps promotion project, support China incandescent lamp production enterprises to energy-saving lamps.

Statistics show that in China, energy-saving light penetration is still low, a year of incandescent lamp sales reached 2 billion, the proportion of small and medium-sized city residents use incandescent lamps in general more than 50%, the proportion of rural greater use of incandescent lamps. At present, China's lighting electricity accounts for about 12% of the total electricity consumption in the whole society. Analysts pointed out that with the development of economy and the improvement of people's living standard, Chinese lighting electricity consumption will further increase, and by promoting the use of efficient lighting products, will further increase the energy-saving potential of China.