Governments planning, the era of the incandescent exit lighting industry in the next decade, governments around the world are actively promoting the energy efficient lighting products, energy-saving lamps and led street light bulbs will compete for the lighting products market. With the rapid development of LED industry, the production efficiency, chip luminous efficiency increased dramatically, LED lighting product prices will drop quickly.
DRAMeXchanger’s research department LEDinside latest led street light bulbs retail price survey shows that following the retail price of LED bulbs dropped sharply in December 2011, in January this year (2012), the overall average retail price of led high bay bulbs continued to decline steadily, replace 40-watt incandescent bulbs, the average international price of $ 19.6. South Korea, the most intense price competition in first-line lighting brands introduced to replace 40W incandescent bulbs products terminal price has been under the killing to below $ 10. Replace the traditional 60-watt LED bulb part of the international average retail price of $ 35.4, only South Korea, the emergence of low-priced below $ 20.
Commodity prices to replace the traditional 40-watt incandescent bulbs, the average decline of nearly 7 percent in January. South Korea remains the most competitive region, the average retail price of $ 10.4, down 13 percent, the minimum price of about $ 8.2. In addition, the Japan region only one percent of the decline did not continue the substantial decline of the previous quarter, mainly due to yen appreciation, therefore translated into U.S. dollars decreased, coupled with LED bulbs in Japan has decreased.