The difficulties for LED urban lighting: Pollution worries

The Xiamen Topstar Lighting Co. Ltd, who is responsible for abandoning the treatment of energy-saving lamps, the annual two total design capacity of processing 3,600 tons of machine, the actual annual handling capacity of less than 100 tons. The Lamp waste trading Co., Ltd. received only 16 tons last year, less than one percent of disposal capacity.

waste energy-saving lamps are spread-ed all over the world, so it is urgent to recycle process. Many companies have energy-saving lamps professional qualification, but its processing machines at most of the time are nothing to dry.

The difficulties for LED urban lighting: Pollution worries

Lack of recycling channels, high processing costs between the consumer end and the handle end of the energy-saving lamps underline a huge gap.

Pollution worries

In 2008, the Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission deploy the first batch of 50 million, financial subsidies, promotion of efficient lighting products was officially launched, marking the promotion of efficient lighting products in China.

Enterprises as subsidies, companies will subsidize the funds to transfer to the consumer indirect subsidies in order to support the promotion of efficient urban lighting products. This is the first time using of financial subsidies to support terminal energy-saving products to promote consumers.

According to statistics, energy efficient lighting products save 60% to 80% than ordinary incandescent, and service life is 4-6 times more.

November 1, 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, General Administration of Customs, State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the State General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine jointly issued the “China phased out incandescent road-map”. And clear effect from October 1, 2012, gradually banned the import and sale of general led projects  lighting incandescent lamp.

The electricity for urban lighting in our country accounts for about 13% as a whole society electricity consumption. If replaced all the 1.4 billion incandescent what we used with all the energy-saving lamps, the annual power saving could be 48 billion, equivalent to a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 48 million tons, great potential for energy saving.

But another worry is followed.

If waste energy-saving lamps are trash at random, broken incinerated the atomic state mercury vapor into the atmosphere, and then settling into the soil or rivers, and the action of microorganisms into organic mercury compounds such as methyl-mercury. Methyl-mercury can dissolve in fat, easy to intestines, lungs, skin absorption, infiltration of blood and accumulate in the kidney, brain and other organs of the body, leading to chronic poisoning.

 

Lighting design and architecture design

Geographically, China and Taiwan is very close and In the blood, they are common ancestry and close relatives. The narrow strip of water relationship doomed the two are inseparable. Due to various historical factors, although the LED business exchanges and cooperation of the two sides to expand for a long time, yet it has not long been involved in joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, such as the depth of “cooperation” areas. Sanan Optoelectronic jumped Formosa Epitaxial photoelectric and became the largest shareholder, and broke this situation. The industry lighting design speculated that such an attempt with the relevant policy changes or loose coming, cross-strait LED industry is a direct result of more frequent cross industry consolidation.

Current lighting problems

The consolidation of two sides of LED enterprises, the stage of development which can be predicted is better than harm. The combination of Taiwan led projects and LED domestic enterprises, the pros and cons of complementary, reduce duplication of investment, and so on. These measures and the results are as help to promote the LED industry as a whole toward the healthy development of a sea of ​​bitterness beacon. Each camp era has become obsolete, and development has always been to seek out from outside. The “hand” is only a means, mutual benefit and win-win is the goal where. Next continuous stimulation of domestic policy, Taiwan continue on LED and other strategic industries conditional deregulation, let enterprises on both sides the interpenetration opportunity greater development platform for enterprises on both sides.

From domestic to foreign media website, “offbeat building” selection activity, list become the topic for people to talk about. From being dubbed the ” long underwear ” Suzhou ” East Gate”, like ” Bikini” Hangzhou Olympic Expo City, then to the rice blossoms group “bottle building ” … … Not the thunder, only more thunder. Indeed, these can be called ” shock ” construction with public eyes, in a short period of time, Chinese local concentrated so much avant-garde style, bold lighting design, architecture, is really amazing, even the ” Rage ” tendencies.

Therefore, we must be clearly aware, the pace of the times is towards the pace of innovation, the innovation of architectural lighting design is the trend of the times.

Energy Saving Mobilization of led lights world

The government is the main force in led market cultivation.

” In order to cultivate energy-saving high-tech market, government is the main force”, from the city of Dongguan Humen Port Development Zone public utility service center director to say, and they are also the cases in the practice application unit.

“LED illumination energy-saving technical basic principle is its unique power supply, cooling and lighting technology, which successfully applied in high efficiency, long life, good color power type LED solid material source, so as to achieve stable, lasting effect, the effect of energy saving. With traditional LED lighting techniques vary. LED lighting energy-saving technology is characterized by low power LED chip. And it chaged the traditional lighting technology, solved the LED radiating and power problem “Jin Mingwu said.

Energy Saving Mobilization of led lights world

Yang Ling said, as part of the city infrastructure, city road lighting property right is clear for all the government. Therefore, city road lighting energy saving it is easy to catch, similar to Zhen Han, led lights world as the representative of the illumination energy saving technology to promote. Moreover, compared with the traditional street lamps, LED road lamp power-saving rate can reach 67% This promotion is of great significance.

The LED energy saving lighting international market potential is tremendous
Japan, the United States, the European Union and Korea government, have introduced such as ” twenty-first Century light plan”, ” next generation lighting plan “, ” Rainbow Project “, ” GaN semiconductor lighting project” to encourage the use of energy-saving light source.

LED road lamp as China’s semiconductor led projects  lighting industry in the young one, it started lately. But after several major improvements, LED street lamp technology is improving, and gradually pushing to the market LED street lamp from Shanghai, Beijing and other major city, to Urumqi, Chongqing and other Midwest falls in succession, each local government has build a model road.

The author also learned in the interview for led lights world, with the rapid increase of city road lighting at the same time, brings great resource and energy consumption and environmental pollution in lighting electricity. Statistical data shows, the world social power for lighting accounts for 10%~20% consumption in society electricity, China’s lighting electricity consumption accounted for about 12% of total electricity. As most of our electricity more than 30% of the total city public lighting, Electricity consumption over the Three Gorges annual generation capacity in 2008, while the city road lighting lamps is about 10%~20% increased, which can’t be ignored.

 

Current lighting problems: Recovery of funds

Recovery of funds is a problem for Current lighting

The lack of collection channels, cross-departmental responsibilities, lack of financial subsidies also lead to energy-saving lamps difficult to deal with.

In China, there is no clear mandatory to recycling waste energy-saving lamps, the most can only rely on the public consciously collected.

Some small range of companies carry out the “old for new service” and so on to encourage consumers to recycle the discarded bulbs, but one well-known domestic production responsible person told reporters. The most is “image projects”, the large-scale expansion are basically impossible.

Current lighting problems: Recovery of funds

Many companies feel that this should be the duty of the government. “According to the current market price of the energy-saving lamps, if borne by the enterprise, it would not pay.” The official said.

At foreign country, energy saving lamp disposal costs are often borne by the government and manufacturers. Each manufacturers sell a lamp, they are necessary to come up with a sum of money, and the money is used for energy-saving lamp recycling and disposal.

The official said that the energy-saving lamps in current lighting led projects production enterprise, the company’s products exported to the U.S. they do not consider the problem of recycling, but it requires the U.S. government to pay certain taxes, by the other side to deal with the waste products.

Li Wei, deputy secretary general of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Enterprise Association has said that Shanghai do not have the special waste lamp cost, sanitation department is also in coordination with the Development and Reform Commission, hoping to formulate “Shanghai renewable resource management approach (draft)”, that can be further expanded. Some part of the recycling directory, and part of the energy-saving lamp included, and solving part of the source of funding.

Guo Hua, deputy chief engineer of the Shanghai City Appearance and Planning Bureau also suggested that, in view of the imperfect disposal system, and disposal costs difficult to drop at, so the industry insider have suggested that let mercury enterprises take participate in the recycling of waste lamps.

In the European Union, the United States, Japan and other countries and regions, the energy-saving lamps replace incandescent are earlier than China, the recycling of waste lamps do relatively well.

Why solar roof performance lighting systems are difficult to promote(2)?

“Too far ahead”, so that customers can not read

Liu Xu’s entrepreneurial dynamism is enough, soon he discovered that this small-scale solar applications is difficult to open market, but “could not bear to leave to the companies, so he hold on firmly to do it. Liu Xu said, solar energy R & D develop needs a long time, and nothing wrong with this products, the only shortcoming is too far ahead. Many people see the product of the first reaction is: Why use this stuff?

Why solar roof performance lighting systems are difficult to promote(2)?

“In some remote areas of the market, the customers do not understand, so the biggest difficulty is popularizing the face of this box of stuff straight. Once we understand the changes brought about by these solar products to life, it will be easy to accept. “said Liu Xu. Later, the market situation is slowly opened, customers will order online and by telephone. For example, Norwegian customers will call to order, said solar water pumps with performance lighting systems come in handy in a forest cabin holiday.

Someone persuade him, since the selling points of the new energy technology, why not play with the concept of “wantonly packaged. But Liu Xu insisted to operate step by step, more innovative products more we talk about integrity, not for sell products to sell. Liu Xu’s products are mainly exported to markets such as Germany, France, Switzerland, and was welcomed by the local residents.

Reduce costs for each family to accept

Sales for the domestic market, Liu Xu said  I am very confident. “In Germany, renewable energy applications already have high proportion. And in Chinese family in the future will be more and more exposure to the use of solar energy, especially in remote areas. completely through the use of similar products to make it more comfortable and living environment.” But Liu Xu admitted that If solar energy really went into each family, it also need some time. In addition, the philosophy of life of the people of each region is different, not the same as the acceptance of solar products and performance lighting systems. But led projects in the future, as technology advances, reduce the cost of solar energy products, it will be more popular.

 

Zigzag road of domestic LED industry

Domestic LED industry started in the 1970s. After nearly 40 years of development, it has been the formation of the national semiconductor lighting industrial bases in Shanghai, Dalian, Nanchang, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Yangzhou and Shijiazhuang. The products are widely used in landscape lighting and general lighting. At present, China has become the world’s largest lighting appliances producer and second largest exporter of lighting appliances. As of the end of 2011, China had more than 3,000 LED enterprises, of which only 140 billion in annual output value. However, in these 140 companies, no one business annual sales have exceed 1 billion yuan, there are only few only a handful of the who exceed more than 500 million yuan.

Zigzag road of domestic LED industry

What makes the Chinese LED industry difficult to forward? The reason, one the industry is the lack of authoritative industry technology, second, corporate R & D is mainly concentrated in the downstream areas of application, in the upper and middle reaches of the R & D investment is relatively small. Large foreign companies and China’s Taiwan region in some companies have monopolized most of the LED core technology, so mainland enterprises can only be turned to look at low-tech downstream applications market.

China’s LED industry, except the core technology is less competitive, Combination loose is also a major factor restricting its development. The top three who own patent are focused on research institutes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Physics and Beijing University of Technology; In the areas of the chip, the top three are the Chinese Academy of Sciences Semiconductors, Beijing University and Peking University. Compared with research institutions, more domestic enterprises apply for utility model patents.

Facing the competitors “Eyeing”, domestic enterprises should be hard to practice “internal strength”. Primarily,  increase innovation, focusing on research and development one that can be widely accepted by the market and recognized the new technology; followed by, cooperate with foreign companies. it should be based on the digestion and absorption of foreign advanced technology, strengthen the imitative innovation to improve core patents to competitors, to improve its technical effect;

In short, China’s LED industry business must attach importance to the early accumulation of intellectual property, and to learn to use science and technology to arm themselves, and use of the patent to explore the domestic and international markets, and turned the “trap” into a good led tunnel light  market prospects, in order to fly higher-and farther.

LED industry: adhere to the scientific development of walking the road of integration and innovation

Integrity – the vitality of enterprises

Credibility is an important guarantee for enterprises to maximize the benefits, and also the vitality of enterprises. The integrity and performance of the enterprise is to determine the strategic positioning for an enterprise, and perseverance to stick, so that customers feel our sincerity to enjoy our service. The Guosheng, Guangdong Investment Limited strategic positioning is: as the scientific and technological innovation a driving force, and as the market demand for force, and as energy management contract the main business modes, and focused on creating the leading enterprises of the domestic contract energy management business.

LED industry: adhere to the scientific development of walking the road of integration and innovation

Innovation – the soul of business development and power

Innovation is the soul and power. Only persist in innovation, it can maintain vitality in the increasingly fierce market competition. Our approach is: First, as energy-saving industry-led the leading, relying on the state-of-the-art technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, based on the sales of domestic LED industry equipment, and promote contract energy management, and actively explore overseas markets, create “Rising lighting” as the most creativity and influence national brand at home and abroad. Second, we enhance personnel, development of human resources. Technical Director Dr. Zhong Qun, chief technical adviser, Professor Jin Peng regard as the members for component LED industry. Third, we joint Tsinghua University, Peking University, South China University of Technology, Jinan University, and other relevant institutions, to carry out the LED lighting precise cast light and remote phosphor technology, the phosphor powder characteristics of the quantum properties of LED industry effects evaluation system comprehensive energy-saving project evaluation system; actively participate in the construction of the joint innovation Center of Guangdong Province, semiconductor led tunnel light industry, and become one of the initiators of joint innovation center. Fourth, we have implemented a strategy of “doing” hand and technology with one hand and the market in full swing, at the same time focus on promoting technology research and development, marketing layout. We set up a marketing team of three independent accounting assessment of the outdoor lighting division, indoor illumination Division, International Business Department, and established a professional marketing team, according to the market opportunity to layout marketing quickly, and achieved good sales results.

LED lighting industry in Dongguan will publish a new policy

In November 14th, Dongguan city was held ” Guangdong independent innovation plan ” (hereinafter referred to as the outline) implementation of site acceptance and LED to promote the application of annual assessment report to Guangdong.

” Fully mobilize market oriented innovation ”

On the meeting, vice mayor Zhang Ke implement the “outline” to the provincial inspection group on the city.

Zhang Ke said, Dongguan City, deeply implement the ” Outline “, greatly enhance the capability of independent innovation, the innovation of science and technology is a good development trend for lighting industry. According to statistics, this year 1~9 month, the city’s increasing value for high-tech industry to occupy above-scale industrial added value is about 32.2%, compared to the same rising period of 2.8%; new cognizance of 55 high-tech enterprises, a total of 458 home; the patent applicaitons reach 21104, and the patent authority reach 15135, ranked the second and third;

Zhang Ke said, the main body of the amount of patent applications and authorization amount is enterprise. The improving for both amount proved that enterprise is seriously paying attention to independence, and also shows that the Dongguan science and technology innovation obtain substantial results. Independent innovation greatly need the market this ” invisible hand ” to promote.

The preparing LED lighting industry development policy

Dongguan Municipal Science and Technology Bureau Director He Yuepei report LED lighting products in the promotion application, the city has a total of 43000 LED street lamp installation and transformation of light and 112000 light LED interior lighting, and 17000 street lamp and 20000 lamps indoor led tunnel light renovation program has been submitted to city hall, the near future will be implement.

According to the provincial government and the city of Dongguan LED promotion schedule, the city will further intensify efforts to accelerate, launch a number of projects, plan to launch a number of projects bidding at the end of Dec in municipal engineering and part of town street, park; strengthen the LED Application Center building, the establishment of expert advisory team, town Street and departments to provide scientific and rational, practical application solutions, study and put forward the feasible waste lamps recycling solutions.

LED lighting industry in Dongguan will publish a new policy

” The pressure for Dongguan independent innovation is not small ”

Zhang Ke expresses, assessment group recommends to hold bibcock innovation, which is very conducive to further promoting independent innovation. The next step is to strengthen the supervision for publicity.

Interpretation of two big lighting led industrial clusters regional advantages

Chinese LED industry has formed a basic complete industrial chain, and initially formed a Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta, northern region, Jiangxi and Fujian the four regions, each region will initially formed a relatively complete industrial chain, more than 85% of the LED enterprise distribution in these areas. National semiconductor lighting project approved the first batch of semiconductor lighting industrial bases of Shanghai, Xiamen, Dalian and Nanchang, basically reflects the industrial pattern.

Interpretation of two big lighting led industrial clusters regional advantages

The Pearl River Delta region

The centered City: Shenzhen, Guangzhou central, Dongguan, Foshan

On behalf of the enterprise : the large group, FSL, Hongli photoelectric, ground the photoelectric

Advantage: application market is larger and the downstream enterprises cluster, it is the largest domestic package, investment is the most concentrated area.

Guangdong region of LED industrial chain supporting are relatively perfect, the related materials, parts, equipment supporting enterprise is numerous, and LED packaging enterprise quantity also occupies the 2/3 above of the whole nation, the deadline to June 30, 2011, China’s LED enterprises are more than 5000, of which 66.4% is distributed in Guangdong Pearl River Delta area.  Guangzhou has concentrated on dozens of downstream packaging enterprises, in the package and LED application advantage; Shenzhen formed ” Sapphire epitaxial chip package – – – – Application of ” a complete industrial chain. In the next few years, the industrial chain advantage still exists, and in the LED industry, it will be a long-term occupation of big boss position.

The Yangtze River Delta region

City: Shanghai, Jiangsu, central Zhejiang

Advantage: the Yangtze River Delta is the circle for China’s LED chip companies. The Yangtze River Delta the semiconductor lighting industry has the advantage of a large number of technical and commercial personnel, industrialization has rich experience, strong capita.

The larger Zhejiang LED application enterprise including: the Zhejiang sun, Hangzhou Hongyan, Ningbo prairie, Zhejiang, Zhejiang, Zhejiang core day Shenghui. Zhejiang is one of the China’s most important traditional lamps among three manufacturing. the traditional led high bay enterprises have already started to LED industrial, future development  potential is very great. Followed by the Jiangsu Province, occupy total 5.3% of countrywide LED application amount, accounting for 30.6% of the total enterprises in Yangtze River Delta LED application, the larger LED application enterprises in Jiangsu history, such as Ford, Nanjing luopu.

LED energy saving lamp – the future of investment potential of the led industry(2)

The actual demand is much more than this figure, “mainland China in 2009 will require 1.4 million and 2.4 million global demand, the next large market potential is evident. Some even boldly predicted; since 2013, China’s LED production value will reach more than $ 100 billion, let aside the amount of numbers, but this industry, as long as it is able to break through the “high-end chip R & D of core technology bottleneck, our energy saving and the goal of building a green city is able to achieve.

LED energy saving lamp - the future of investment potential of the led industry(2)

LED is short for semiconductor lighting. It is based on a solid state light source of the semiconductor chip for the material, relying on the electron-hole recombination, and convert electrical energy into light energy efficiency is as high as 80% or more. Olympic venues under construction LED technology has been widely used as representatives of independent innovation.

It is understood that the LED’s energy consumption is only 10% of incandescent and fluorescent lamps is 30%; it uses solid package, the service life is up to 50,000 hours, 10 times is the incandescent 100 times fluorescent in led industry, it does not require the use of glass vacuum packaging and does not produce toxic side effects and mercury pollution.

China is the world’s second-largest power country. The total power generation in 2007 was 3.2559 trillion kwh, the lighting electricity up to 390 billion kwh, equivalent to the total electricity consumption in the United Kingdom for one year.

Since the 1990s, the main producing countries of the energy-saving lamps in the country vigorously popularize to use in China,while energy-saving lamps that China made are mainly for export, the domestic penetration is not high. The data show that the production of energy-saving lamps in China in 2003 to 1 billion, accounting for 70% of the market share of world sales, domestic sales of only 350 million.

According to experts, since 2007, in North America, Australia, legislation to ban the use of incandescent lamps. EU Summit to reach an agreement in the spring of 2007, which requires EU countries to phase out incandescent in led industry.

With the strong support and promote the application of LED introduction of national standards and national farewell Edison era is just around the corner, then people will spend a clean and green, led high bay light pollution, no radiation and toxic side effects of new high-quality light source.