Since October 2014, Hubei province will be banned 60W incandescent lamp

Yesterday (April 23rd), the Wuhan Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee considered the "People's Republic of China implementation of the Circular Economy Promotion Law" (Draft) "". ". Reporter was informed that from October 2014 onwards, Hubei will prohibit the import and sale of 60W and above ordinary incandescent lamps to encourage residents to use energy-saving lamps.

According to statistics, lighting energy consumption accounts for 12% of China's total energy consumption, the use of energy-saving lamps instead of incandescent lamps, can save energy of 60% - 80%, an annual savings of 4 billion 800 million kwh.

The consideration of the "Wuhan implementation of the" People's Republic of China Circular Economy Promotion Law "approach (Draft)", made to the Wuhan city public lighting facilities clearly stipulates that the city roads and landscape lighting, building lighting engineering, the outdoor light boxes, billboards and public institutions offices shall adopt efficient energy-saving lamps. Traffic signs should adopt solar energy, luminous materials and other energy-saving technologies.

To this end, Hubei province from October 2014 to prohibit the import and sale of 60W and more than ordinary incandescent light; from the beginning of October 2016 to prohibit the import and sale of 15W and more than ordinary incandescent lamp, until fully replaced by energy-saving lamps and LED lamps.