According to Indian media reports, the Indian government response when the current of the LED lamp replacement plan, by 2018, India can save $6 billion a year lighting costs.

The news by the Indian government power, coal, new energy and renewable energy minister Piyush Goyal in mumbai, the Harvard us-india Initiative (Harvard College US India Initiative) mentioned in the meeting.

“As much as 710 million rupees of traditional light bulb is expected to change into a LED light bulb will save 100 billion units of electricity.”The minister said.

The climate group LED project has proved that global energy efficient LED lighting energy saving and money saving potential is unprecedented, especially in India.

The lighting industry in India alone accounted for 18% of the total electricity production, and the global lighting accounts for only 13% of the electricity consumption.The large-scale LED lighting will save 50-70% of its energy, to help India to its of slope to the global illumination of the following, a significant reduction in carbon emissions, without having to build more power plants.

In addition, the LED street lamp is one of the niche of energy saving.So far, India has installed 35 million streetlights, energy consumption is 3400 mw.According to government estimates, after upgrading to LED lighting, LED street light energy consumption will be reduced to 1400 megawatts, a drop of about 60%.