Japan through a number of green bill to promote the popularity of LED bulbs

News February 4th, second Japanese Ministry of economy 2009 annual budget of 268 billion 310 million yen including relevant information policy, the supplementary budget, passed on January 28, 2010. Among them, with many LED lighting industry related support budget. LED lighting industry is expected to play a role in promoting the development.

Budget includes, (1) for environmental protection (Eco-point) system to extend the integral 232 billion 140 million yen (postponed to the end of 2010); (2) for low carbon life process IT technology based on the 5 billion 470 million yen; (3) to promote the green innovation of 990 million yen; (4) for support in Japan to promote domestic can create employment opportunities of low carbon industry 29 billion 710 million yen.

Among them, "the use of environmentally friendly green integral promote popularity of home appliances business, will put the air conditioning and refrigeration in digital microwave television, applicable environmental reward system extended to the end of 2010 (but will improve energy efficiency standards for appliances is limited to such higher performance products). And, in order to promote consumers to replace the use of energy-efficient LED bulbs, etc., but also changed the way some of the environmental protection points.

New system first used the "instant redemption" system, namely in the purchase of environmentally friendly goods on the spot to obtain environmental object integral integral. And the usual procedures are required to apply for the registration before you can get points. The new system can be used to get instant integration of goods is the bulb type LED lamp, bulb type fluorescent lamp and rechargeable nickel metal hydride batteries and other environmentally friendly goods. Secondly, when these commodities in the immediate exchange, will also use 1 points for the conversion of the preferential policy of 2 yen (usually for the conversion of 1 yen to 1 yen). Thus, such as 4000 yen LED bulbs can be instantly converted to a total of 2000 points.

In addition, about "in Japan to promote job creation, low carbon industry, lithium ion to have the most cutting-edge technology and with the potential for the development of rechargeable batteries and LED lighting energy-saving environmental protection industry in Japan based on support, to create green jobs. These policies will be expected to become a driving force to promote the popularity of LED lighting appliances and other products.