Lighting giant China by green"

"Look at China's civil lighting, there is a market value of about 40 billion yuan. PHILPS lighting (China), chief executive officer, said, therefore, in the past few years, PHILPS has been in the acquisition, investment, research and development of green lighting, and spent nearly 4 billion euros.

Late last year, PHILPS lighting also invested 60 million euros in Jiangsu, Yangzhou, Yizheng Economic Development Zone, the construction of the Asia Pacific region's largest fluorescent lamp manufacturing enterprises.

Coincidentally, the old Elsa graphics card manufacturers have begun to actively seek new opportunities. Recently, Elsa fully into the LED green lighting industry, at the same time, it will also be the focus of the market to conduct a comprehensive adjustment, abandon the past has always been to overseas markets in Europe and America based approach to Chinese market as the focus of future development. Chinese market potential is the direct cause led by PHILPS International Lighting giant array. The next step, I hope the government departments to improve lighting standards in order to promote greater development of the market. A person in charge of the industry said.

Energy saving opportunities

Data show that lighting has become the second largest building energy consumption, accounting for the total energy consumption of the building of 35%, the urgent need to change.

1 to the price of 20 yuan of high-quality energy-saving lamps, as an example, in its 6000 hours of life, compared with the same effect of less than 60 watt incandescent lamp power consumption of 294 kwh, saving more than $160. EMSI Environmental Management Consulting Co., Ltd. Qian Yingchu, general manager of central China said.

To this end, the Chinese government has been promoting the development of China's green lighting market. Financial subsidies to support the promotion of efficient lighting products. Statistics released by the China Institute of lighting, the current sales of Chinese lighting products has more than $15 billion, by the Shanghai World Expo and Guangzhou Asian Games infrastructure pull, this figure is expected to exceed $20 billion.

In another development, some city also strongly promote the development of green lighting market. Currently, Dongguan, Guangzhou and other cities have been testing the water contract energy management model (EMC), and vigorously promote urban green lighting projects and industrial development. It is reported that Guangdong province plans to raise 5 billion yuan of funds, the Shenzhen investment company under the financial information company EMC China new energy investment company and country Zhiyuan energy service companies to the market. Since 5 billion yuan is mainly used to promote urban green lighting demonstration projects, LED lighting products as a green lighting products, will receive the fund's investment.

This move aroused the attention and the domestic and foreign lighting giant. Last July, Elsa has Taipei operations center, green card and LED R & D headquarters all transferred to the Beijing City Economic and Technological Development Zone, and Beijing Boda Guosheng Investment Company Limited and MaxRayHolding (MH) merger, Elsa established Au Optronics Co, full force to enter the LED green lighting market.

In addition, the lighting giant OSRAM contrarian expansion of production, its investment of up to 400 million yuan in Foshan new plant was completed last year, and will be fully operational in 2010. It is reported that the plant will focus on R & D and production of green lighting products, and Foshan will become one of the world's largest production and research and development base of OSRAM. GE lighting in the global scope of the reduction of the incandescent sector business, the corresponding increase in the efficiency of lighting energy conversion products. Foshan local enterprises Zhao letter group also latecomers, gradually improve the LED lighting research and development, chip packaging, electronic control, lamp assembly, engineering application of a whole industrial chain.

Strengthen standards

But this "flourishing" market is still facing some ills". As early as June 2003, the Ministry of science and technology on the launch of the "China semiconductor lighting project"; in 2005, the first time the green building green lighting included in the national long-term development plan (2006~2020).

However, the promotion of green lighting is still difficult.

Price is an obstacle. Compared to ordinary incandescent lamps, energy-saving lamps are often several times or even 10 times the price. At present, a high-quality 11 watt compact energy-saving lamp price of about $20, while the price of only 1 yuan incandescent lamp about $1. Therefore, government departments are in the form of subsidies to promote the use of energy-saving lighting products. "But it is not a permanent solution. Qian Yingchu said.

In addition to the impact of price, the relevant standard confusion, the threshold is too low bottleneck.

It is reported that the tube type fluorescent lamp energy efficiency limit value and energy evaluation value has been released for nearly 10 years, but so far has not been revised, a serious impact on the upgrading of products. In addition to product energy efficiency standards, the current energy efficiency standards in lighting engineering, there are also considered deficiencies.

At present, the relevant products and engineering energy efficiency standards have been approved by the National Standardization Management Committee, the revision is in progress. Chinese Academy of Building Sciences Professor Zhao Jianping pointed out, but the need for energy saving standards from the actual amendments. For example, in a small area of space, the current lighting standards to achieve some of the difficulties, therefore, should be given a wider range of policy support. In order to promote the development of green lighting, China Standardization Institute has launched the research to develop China phasing out incandescent roadmap "project, the main content is to develop a roadmap for phasing out incandescent lamps, and promote relevant policies of green lighting market. It is expected that by June 2011, a series of research reports will be formed and the roadmap and policy building