Taiwan's 1/4 street lights will be changed to LED province electricity tariff of 2 billion 400 million

Taiwan's "Ministry of Economy Energy Bureau recently said that Taiwan is currently a total of nearly one million mercury vapor lamps, next year there will be 1/4 replaced by energy-saving LED lights, a year can save 2 billion 400 million yuan (NT, the same below), nearly 24 million of the maintenance costs of electricity.

"The Energy Bureau official pointed out that mercury lamp every six months to change the bulb, LED lamp life of up to five years, with a 100 watt LED lamp 250 Watt mercury lamp compared with the traditional, high energy saving rate of 60%. In addition to Festival

Advantages, LED road lighting quality is better, do not contain mercury. Officials said the Taiwan authorities have been locked in Keelung, Hsinchu, Chiayi three provinces and cities as LED street model city, is expected to be completed within three years.

It is understood that the day before the Executive Yuan has approved 2 billion yuan of tax planning, let all 16 governments apply for a set number of LED lights, will be in accordance with the "mercury lamp percentage distribution, due to the large number, do not rule out

The use of performance guarantee model, that is, only part of the amount of subsidies to the government, the local government to save electricity by the province to make up the cost of equipment. In addition, the remote areas of Islands, including Kinmen, Penghu and Lianjiang, "energy board" will also be

Budgeted cost of replacement.