Ten City million suffered financial problems EMC or into a solution

In April last year, the Ministry of science and Technology launched the "ten city lights" semiconductor lighting engineering pilot work, driven by the rapid development of LED lighting; not only the concept of the LED in the capital market by red line, the relevant enterprises also involved in mergers and acquisitions or in the best of spirits in the expansion. A year later, the national semiconductor lighting engineering research and development and industrial alliance began last month on the Ten City million pilot cities to conduct research on the progress of the pilot.

Although the findings have not yet introduced, but the reporter learned that many year to LED Street started the business, even without fail, but the street project itself is a loss.

In the days before the from high LED at the "2010 LED light China Tour - NanJing Railway Station seminar, Nanjing Street Management Office chief engineer Liu Leishi pointed out that the bottleneck of LED street promotion: the high power LED lamp and high pressure sodium lamp than in road lighting energy-saving effect is not obvious; and the LED lamp is electronic product life, volatility, maintenance difficulties; technical bottleneck breakthrough difficulty; poor economic returns. These problems in the street around the project in general. "Ten cities" can be said that the implementation of a threshold.

And in this case, the energy management contract (hereinafter referred to as EMC) the emergence of the LED lighting market is expected to gradually from the government oriented to the market behavior change, which provides a solution appears as "ten city lights" the next stage of the implementation.

"Ten city lights" why "many do not watch"?

In April last year, the Ministry of science and technology approved 21 city "ten city lights" semiconductor lighting engineering pilot city, the purpose is to LED in the municipal lighting demonstration project for the carrier, in a number of city foundation well, and explore the experience for the comprehensive promotion of semiconductor lighting. And this set off a gust of LED. Many failed to finalists in the first batch of pilot cities, but also through their own way to promote LED lighting engineering.

Wave for light "boom, many do not have the conditions of enterprises have launched LED production line. We investigated the domestic 40 LED street lamp enterprises, of which nearly 1/3 of the enterprise is in a year began to produce LED street lamp. High tech LED CEO Zhang Xiaofei pointed out that a lot of technology but hard to get the project by virtue of the relationship. High tech LED Industry Research Institute data show that last year, 21 pilot cities in total installed a total of 222 thousand LED street lamps, and LED street lamp production line loss rate as high as 70%.

The reason for such a result, on the one hand and the enterprise blindly project related, but more important is the implementation of the "ten city lights" sources of funding has not been resolved. Liu Leishi, chief engineer of Nanjing street lamp management office, made an account of Nanjing. He pointed out that due to high-grade epitaxial chip high efficiency high power white LED applications is almost entirely dependent on imports, the better quality of the high price of LED street in Nanjing City, the current lighting calculation, if the replacement of all LED products to 8-10 billion. In Nanjing, the promotion of green lighting work, even if all the street lamps to close Nanjing to save electricity, but also need to be able to recover after 22-27 years of investment.

LED business representatives who declined to be named, said, the Ministry of science and technology, mainly to the policy but not under the funding, only by the local finance to promote the LED street lamp is very difficult. In some places, even the problem of arrears LED enterprise project payments. "

So, why enterprises but also to "ten city lights" so love? Zhang Xiaofei said, "the government bear the profits of the project is high, now the basic price at around 20-30 yuan / watt, if using ordinary chips, the whole lamp not the pursuit of high quality, the cost can be done in half, and 100% of the profits. He admitted that this project is still a great attraction, the strength of the company value of the market space, or will do. "

EMC funding to solve the problem

Today, EMC national support policies, or be able to help the "ten city lights" carry out smoothly. The so-called EMC, that is, the contract energy management, is a new model of energy-saving services industry. Professional energy-saving technology services company to accept the customer (such business owners) Commission, signed by the energy service contracts with customers, with funds to implement energy-saving projects, to provide customers with the necessary equipment, improve energy-saving technology and capital all in one service, and obtain the benefits to customers through saving energy costs down. This is the local government in promoting LED lighting ten city million plan in the hope of a new model.

And LED lighting in the implementation of "ten city lights", EMC was divided into two forms. First, the energy savings in the form of direct payments to return to LED enterprises, but there are some problems in this way. Zhang Xiaofei said that the relatively high pressure sodium lamp, LED street lamp reached 40%, the actual energy saving effect is very good, if the high-pressure sodium lamp replaced 400 Watt LED lamp with 250 watts, according to today's tariff level to count to 8 years to recover the cost, plus the cost of maintenance follow-up, this model has a great risk for enterprises, difficult to implement.

The measures for the implementation of second EMC, is now widely used as a business model. By banks or other financial institutions to pay, guaranteed by the government. This form of profit may not be too high, the bank has a certain interest conversion formula; but for businesses, you can get the money. This is actually the risk borne by the bank, but also solve the problem of financial expenditure.

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