LED street lighting industry new hope

With the growing demand for energy saving and environmental protection, LED street lamp has become a new breakthrough point for the current government to promote lighting applications, the world's LED street demonstration program has begun to expand. With the gradual formation of LED street lamp standard specifications, the recent rapid development of LED street lamps in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan and other markets, has become a new hope to lead the LED industry, has become a new battleground for the public sector.

In 2005 the world's first LED street in Holland officially a 2006 British $745 thousand lamps of experiment and design; then Canada and the United States have been cooperating with manufacturers of traffic signal lamp, and even building lighting renovation project LED. In 2007 the Chinese government also began to promote the use of LED street lamp. Although LED lighting accounts for only about 3% of the total global lighting market, which LED street lighting market size is limited. But in the recession, consumer demand is weak, the government's public spending has become a new opportunity to light up the LED market.

The LED lamp case from last year began to sprout, from Shanghai, Beijing, Dongguan and other major city, to the Urumqi and other local governments are competing to build a demonstration Road, due to the upstream epitaxial chip industry development as the foreign enterprises, the chip supply still relies on overseas manufacturers.

It is worth noting that China's Taiwan region has announced a new draft standard LED lights at the beginning of December 2008, LED lighting standard case, county municipal government demonstration project in the near future starting, the industry believes that with the formulation of relevant standards, the future is expected to accelerate the expansion of market scale. Taiwan LED manufacturers, LED street lamps in the market layout and orders the most active devaluation of works on both sides of the Pak hung, in 2008, has been in Keelung, Taichung County, Chiayi County, Fongyuan city landmark case, estimated revenue contribution amount to about 200 million yuan nt. In addition to Baihong, including the Hon Hai group, Pei Xin, billion light, and the upper reaches of the Lite crystal power, the new century are rushing into business opportunities. Experts said that in the Taiwan region, the Taiwan street now the total amount of more than 1 million 500 thousand light, the replacement ratio is not high, with the standard formulated confirmation, manufacturers of technology development has become more mature, will bring considerable opportunities for LED vendors.

Taiwan Institute of statistics, in 2007 the global LED lighting market in Asia and emerging applications demand growth driven by $330 million, by 2012 the global LED lighting market will grow to $1 billion 400 million, of which architectural lighting and commercial lighting will be the most powerful growth momentum.